“Tokyo Vice” continues the plot of the original fiction: the young American journalist in love with Japan. At the dawn of the 1990s, the editorial staff of Tokyo's largest daily newspaper resumed its high-risk investigation into the yakuza in the company of Katagiri, a tenacious local police inspector.

Their research once again brings them across Samantha, Jake's young compatriot who opened a hostess club by associating with a local gang, while maintaining an affair with one of its members.