Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe Break Down the Explosive ‘Tokyo Vice’ Season 2 Premiere: ‘Jake Is Being a Very Bad Boy’
variety.comDiego Ramos Bechara editor SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from the Season 2 premiere of HBO’s “Tokyo Vice,” now streaming on Max. “Jake is being a very bad boy…” That’s how Ken Watanabe, who plays detective Hiroto Katagiri, described Jake Adelstein’s (Ansel Elgort) actions at the end of “Tokyo Vice’s” Season 2 premiere.
The second season picks off right where Season 1 ended in April 2022 and plugs viewers back into the neon-lit streets of Tokyo’s underbelly.
Loosely based on the memoir written by journalist Jake Adelstein, “Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan,” the show follows Adelstein as he works with detective Katagiri to expose the atrocities committed by the yakuza and dismantle organized crime in the city.
The jaw-dropping Season 2 premiere, which debuted on Max with two episodes, saw Jake, the Japan-based journalist, for lack of a better phrase, “sealing the deal” with Shinzo Tozawa’s (Ayumi Tanida) girlfriend, Misaki (Ayumi Ito) — potentially threatening Jake’s own life if the yakuza clang leader were to learn about his promiscuous rendezvous.
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