As with Japanese cuisine, once you have tasted it, you can no longer do without it. After a phenomenal first season in November 2022, the “Tokyo Vice” series returns with a second delivery this Thursday, April 4 on Canal + and myCanal, and is even tastier.
Still produced by the great Michael Mann and taken from the memoirs of reporter Jake Adelstein, it continues the plot of the original fiction: the young American journalist in love with Japan Jake (Ansel Elgort), who achieved the feat of being the first Westerner to join, at the dawn of the 1990s, the editorial staff of Tokyo's largest daily newspaper, resumes his high-risk investigation into the yakuza in the company of Katagiri (Ken Watanabe), a tenacious police inspector. Their research once again brings them across Samantha (Rachel Keller), Jake's young compatriot who opened a hostess club by joining a gang while maintaining an affair with one of its members, the handsome Sato (Shô Kasamatsu ).
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