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The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 86% approval rating with an average rating of 7.6/10, based on 40 critic reviews. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 75 out of 100 based on 25 critics - Tokyo Vice is a crime drama created by J.T. Rogers based on the 2009 book of the same name by Jake Adelstein that premiered on April 7, 2022, on HBO Max. It stars Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe in lead roles. - Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan is a 2009 memoir by Jake Adelstein of his years living in Tokyo as the first non-Japanese reporter working for one of Japan’s largest newspapers, Yomiuri Shinbun. It was published by Random House and Pantheon Books. #HBO adapted the memoir into a 2022 television series. The veracity of the tales described in the memoir has been called into question. #MM #Mann Television adaptation Main article: Tokyo Vice (TV series) In June 2019, a television adaptation of the memoir was announced The 8-part television series stars Ansel Elgort playing Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. The series also stars Ken Watanabe and is written and executive produced by Tony Award-winning playwright J. T. Rogers, with Endeavor Content serving as the studio. In October 2019, it was announced that #MichaelMann would direct the pilot episode and would serve as executive producer. John Lesher, Emily Gerson Saines, and Destin Daniel Cretton also serve as executive producers, alongside J.T. Rogers, Mann, Elgort and Watanabe. In addition to Elgort and Watanabe, the Tokyo Vice cast also includes Rachel Keller and Ella Rumpf. The 8-episode straight-to-streaming series Tokyo Vice is on #HBOMax The series is scheduled to premiere on April 7, with the first three episodes available immediately, followed by two episodes on a weekly basis until the series finale on April 28, 2022 Controversy over accuracy After the release of the TV series, The Hollywood Reporter published an article on persons involved in the Japanese newspaper business and American entertainment industry casting doubts on the veracity of the stories published in the book. American television producer Philip Day recalled that, in 2010, while shooting a documentary for National Geographic, felt Adelstein was not credible, citing one incident where Adelstein called him to say he had been attacked by a yakuza in the street with a phone book. A lawsuit was brought in 2011 by Adelstein after he claimed that the production interviewing three different gangsters led to threats on his life. Adelstein’s former colleague at the Yomiuri, Tsujii, maintained that the atmosphere of brawling and going undercover were not tolerated. Adelstein stated in the article, “[n]othing in the book is exaggerated. Everything is written as it happened.“ After the THR article was published, Adelstein published a response stating, “Mr. Blair deliberately left out or ignored correspondences testifying to my credibility or verifying my reporting“, arguing the piece focused too much on the 2011 lawsuit and was inaccurate about keeping sources anonymous, and releasing a collection of documents and sources on Twitter stated to be from the making of the book. - Ansel Elgort as Jake Adelstein, an American journalist from Missouri who moves to Tokyo. The longer he stays, the more he delves into the corruption of Tokyo’s seedy underworld, where no one is as they seem. Ken Watanabe as Hiroto Katagiri, a detective in the organized crime division. He’s a father figure to Adelstein who helps guide him through the thin and often precarious line between the law and organized crime. Rachel Keller as Samantha Porter, an American expatriate living in Tokyo who makes her living as a hostess in the Onyx Club of the Kabukicho district. She guides many individuals from salarymen, to high-end clients, and yakuza. Hideaki Itō as Jin Miyamoto, a vice squad detective who becomes Jake’s first liaison in the police department. Show Kasamatsu as Sato, a Yakuza enforcer who collects protection money from the club Samantha works at. Ella Rumpf as Polina, an Eastern European migrant, and a struggling new hostess at the Onyx Club with Samantha. She came to Tokyo to work as a model, and got pulled into the seedy underbelly of Kabukicho. Rinko Kikuchi as Emi Maruyama, Adelstein’s supervisor, a composite of the various colleagues and supervisors who worked with the real life Adelstein during his career. Tomohisa Yamashita as Akira, Polina’s boyfriend who works at a Host Club. See also Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, by David Simon Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District, by Peter Moskos