Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
The elder son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill, Douglas received his Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His early acting roles included film, stage, and television productions. Douglas first achieved prominence for his performance in the ABC police procedural television series The Streets of San Francisco, for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations.
‘Tokyo Vice’ Review: Ansel Elgort Leads Slow-Paced HBO Max Crime Drama
thewrap.com“TokyoVice“ is an HBO Max companion piece to the Michael Mann-produced TV series “Miami Vice,” which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1989.
That show somehow hasn’t yet been revived beyond a single Mann-directed 2006 feature film, and now “Tokyo Vice” even boasts Mann as both its executive producer and its pilot-episode director.
But this new series is far more “prestige TV” than Mann’s prior show — for better and worse.“Tokyo Vice” is based on journalist Jake Adelstein’s 2009 memoir and follows a fictionalized version of Adelstein, an American attempting to make it as a newspaper reporter in Japan around the most recent turn of the century.
Despite some fluency in the language and culture, Jake clashes with a very different set of journalistic expectations as he investigates entwined yakuza-related stories, including a series of apparent suicides.Initially, Jake acts against the wishes of his exacting editor, and if it sounds like this character still maintains the trappings of a cocky rogue cop, you’re getting an accurate picture — though Ansel Elgort, the befuddled-looking young actor with a bad reputation, isn’t quite Michael Douglas in “Black Rain.” Jake’s eagerness is probably supposed to be likably tenacious with a ruthless edge; instead, Elgort often gets caught between puppyish and vaguely sinister.
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