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‘Tokyo Vice’ Producer Alex Boden Details Challenges, Opportunities in Japan Production Landscape
'Tokyo Vice' producer Alex Boden reveals how Japan's new tax incentives and production infrastructure are drawing Hollywood to Japanese locations.
Rogers and starring Ken Watanabe, Ansel Elgort, Rachel Keller and Kikuchi Rinko, the series followed a Western journalist working for a publication in Tokyo who takes on one of the city’s most powerful crime bosses. The launch of the JLOX Japan location incentive program, which offers reimbursement of up to 50% of qualifying expenditure in the country, with an upper limit of JPY1 billion ($6.66 million) on each disbursement, was a watershed moment, Boden said. On how the team pulled if off, Boden said, “I’ve been told by colleagues that we made it look too easy, but the honest answer is that with problem solving every day and being flexible as well as quick to respond, we trusted and empowered our local producers and crew in equal measure.
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