[TV] Tokyo Vice

[Malaphax]

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A Western journalist working for a publication in Tokyo takes on one of the city's most powerful crime bosses.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2887954/

This is a solid little show.  It definitely relies on some foreign/Japanese mystique but it still feels like a solid crime thriller with a hefty dose of journalism and fish out of water elements.  The main actor Ansel Elgort is wooden, which mostly works since this is set in Japan, I only recognize him from baby driver and he hasn't exactly impressed me with any acting yet, his Japanese sounds decent (to me at least).  Ken Watanabe is solid but in far fewer scenes than the trailer would lead you to believe, some of the English lines from Japanese actors is a little rough, but I haven't had any issues understanding anyone yet.  The storyline is set in the 1990's, and seems like a slow burn, but so far the different threads are interesting enough.  I'd say it's worth a watch but definitely on the slower side, also strap in for a decent amount of subtitle reading.  Even though they're supposed to be depicting the underbelly of Japanese society and crime, they still seem to keep it fairly clean and romanticized, I'm curious how dark they'll actually go with this.