It is on Canal+ that viewers will soon be able to discover the event series by Michael Mann (Heat, Collateral), “Tokyo Vice”, based on a true story.
Scheduled to be launched on April 7 on the American streaming platform HBO Max – and soon in France on Canal+, which has still not revealed the broadcast date – this series is available in eight episodes (with the first directed by Michael Mann himself) follows the story of Jake Adelstein, an American journalist from Missouri who, in 1993, decided to settle in the Japanese capital.
The 24-year-old young man joins the editorial staff of Yomiuri Shinbun, the best-selling daily newspaper in the world, to follow the daily operations of the Tokyo police. It is then that he will discover sensitive information involving organized crime. Caught up in this dangerous and unpredictable world, Jake can count on the support of Hiroto Katagiri, an experienced inspector who will accompany him in the field.
Tokyo, 1990s. An idealistic journalist. An old-fashioned cop. And behind the scenes of a city like no other.#TokyoVicethe event series directed by Michael Mann, soon only on CANAL+ pic.twitter.com/Sfh6IAfcRH
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Disappeared from the screens since the release of Hacker in 2015, it is on television that Michael Mann returns with Tokyo Vice, a series brought to the screen by Ansel Elgort (West Side Story) and Ken Watanabe (Inception, Godzilla 2 ).
The actresses Rachel Keller (Fargo) and Ella Rumpf (Grave), complete the cast of what promises to be a dark and nervous fiction.