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Tokyo Vice Season-Premiere Recap: Who Deserves to Have Their Story Told?


After a lengthy wait, Jake and Detective Katagiri are finally back on the case.

Two years, a couple of industry strikes, and a massive streaming-market shakeup later, the surprise hit Michael Mann production continues the adventures of American reporter Jake Adelstein (Ansel Elgort) and the cops, gangsters, and smooth operators of Tokyo’s criminal underworld. Tokyo Vice ’s debut season was about “how the system works in this precarious balance of power between the police, the press, and the Yakuza,” as executive producer (and episode director) Alan Poul put it for Entertainment Weekly. No sooner than telling Jake to step back and cool off does he pay a midnight visit to the vice-minister, trading in his double-breasted suit for a vigilante’s black Patagonia.

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