Tokyo Vice. Starzplay

[Smollet]

Ansel Elgort(Baby Driver fame) plays Jake Adelstein the first American reporter to work for Japan's biggest newspaper Meicho Shimbun as a crime reporter. Based on a true story.
Interesting and engaging

Edited by Smollet on Monday 16th May 20:00

[daddy cool]

Smollet said:

Anson Elgort(Baby Driver fame) plays Jake Adelstein the first American reporter to work for Japan's biggest newspaper Meicho Shimbun as a crime reporter. Based on a true story.
Interesting and engaging

Have you seen the whole series? Was enjoying it until the finale (ep8) where it just ends abruptly, with none of the plots resolved, but also without a cliffhanger that suggests it continues in season 2 (and having read up a bit, there is no 2nd season confirmed).
I wish i'd known that before investing 8 hours in it...

My advice would be wait to see if a 2nd series comes along, and then binge both together...

[Corso Marche]

daddy cool said:

Have you seen the whole series? Was enjoying it until the finale (ep8) where it just ends abruptly, with none of the plots resolved, but also without a cliffhanger that suggests it continues in season 2 (and having read up a bit, there is no 2nd season confirmed).
I wish i'd known that before investing 8 hours in it...

My advice would be wait to see if a 2nd series comes along, and then binge both together...

Now that's a bummer to read. We've been watching an episode each week as it becomes available on HBO Max. 3 down so far, think ep.4 is in the next day or so. We've been enjoying it, but now you've raised questions in my mind as to whether to continue or not!

[Newc]

daddy cool said:

Have you seen the whole series? Was enjoying it until the finale (ep8) where it just ends abruptly, with none of the plots resolved, but also without a cliffhanger that suggests it continues in season 2 (and having read up a bit, there is no 2nd season confirmed).

+1.

The production values, cast, and the scenes of life in Tokyo are all excellent, but they seem to have written a ten episode series and only made eight of them.

[Smollet]

Corso Marche said:

daddy cool said:

Have you seen the whole series? Was enjoying it until the finale (ep8) where it just ends abruptly, with none of the plots resolved, but also without a cliffhanger that suggests it continues in season 2 (and having read up a bit, there is no 2nd season confirmed).
I wish i'd known that before investing 8 hours in it...

My advice would be wait to see if a 2nd series comes along, and then binge both together...

Now that's a bummer to read. We've been watching an episode each week as it becomes available on HBO Max. 3 down so far, think ep.4 is in the next day or so. We've been enjoying it, but now you've raised questions in my mind as to whether to continue or not!

Absolutely. The whole 8 episodes aren’t available yet over here so already my enjoyment has been tarnished. Thanks daddy cool

[KTF]

Bump as this is now on iplayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0d8nykd/to...

[Smollet]

KTF said:

Bump as this is now on iplayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0d8nykd/to...

Started well. It just didn’t end.

[fourstardan]

Saw this on the Tv last night and only saw at 20 mins so planned to binge it. I may not now seeing original posts.

Reminded me a bit of Giri Haji.

[KTF]

I read the book years ago and can’t actually remember how it ended or much of it at all to be honest.

From memory he was an American journalist who learned Japanese and got caught up in some yakuza related story.

[Murph7355]

Started this last night and was enjoying it...reviews above are not ideal.

Watched The Old Man and that also ended abruptly too. Maybe it's a new "style"?

Spent a chunk of time in Japan and loved the place and the people. The show had the right vibe on that front.

[KTF]

Murph7355 said:

Spent a chunk of time in Japan and loved the place and the people. The show had the right vibe on that front.

Agree. I spent 2 weeks there courtesy of work and it was brilliant. Very different to here.

[BryanC]

fourstardan said:

Saw this on the Tv last night and only saw at 20 mins so planned to binge it. I may not now seeing original posts.

Loved it - agree the conclusion came quickly but thought it was brilliant and would look forward to any follow up.
Perhaps it was not set in the West that set it apart :
The architecture, the cleanliness, the street restaurants, the bright lights, smart clothing, respect and order in society and a great appearance for Ken Watanabe ( Last Samurai ) as the main cop. Good sprinkling of s5x and violence.
Do see it through.

Spoiler to summarise how I saw it end.


1 News reporter Jake gets his story
2 The dirty cop gets what he deserves
3 The corrupt councillor gets caught on DVD
4 We see what happens to the missing girl
5 The Yakuza continue as they always have done for several hundred years
6 KenW manages to avoid the potential gang war
7 The Yakuza enforcer having straightened out his apprentice should have taken his own advice

[Murph7355]

Finished it tonight - great stuff.

Googling suggests a second season has been signed up to...

[Dashnine]

Murph7355 said:

Finished it tonight - great stuff.

Googling suggests a second season has been signed up to...

Who then? Or ‘as well’?

[tardelli]

Dashnine said:

Who then? Or ‘as well’?

According to Wikipedia
Production began in Tokyo in November for the 2nd Series

[Corso Marche]

That's good to hear.

[cuprabob]

Finished this off last night and loved it. Good to hear there is a second series in the making.

One thing that was bugging me was where I had seen the main actor before and then it clicked, he was the lead in the recent West Side Story film.

[paul0843]

Loved it.Definitely one of the best things I have watched on tv all year.
Paul

[EK9_CTR]

Thoroughly enjoyed this, looking forward to S2.

Don't watch if you're trying to quit smoking!

[TwigtheWonderkid]

How old is Jake meant to be...mid 20s? I'm struggling to see how someone of that age who hasn't been brought up in a multi lingual household can speak, and what's more read & write Japanese, to that level? My mate has lived in Tokyo for about 10 years, has a 2.1 in Japanese, and is maybe close to that level, if not quite there.