Ansel Elgort in a still from new HBO series Tokyo Vice, based on Jake Adelstein’s memoir Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan.
Tokyo Vice: HBO drama series starring Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe is based on Jake Adelstein’s controversial memoir
- Jake Adelstein’s 2009 memoir of his time as the first non-Japanese reporter at one of Japan’s newspapers has been adapted into a TV series starring Ansel Elgort
- The show paints an intricate picture of yakuza syndicates, police procedures and the newspaper; it is less plausible in its portrait of expats in the country
Ansel Elgort in a still from new HBO series Tokyo Vice, based on Jake Adelstein’s memoir Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan.
