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Tokyo Vice Live-Action Series' 2nd Season's Trailer Reveals February 8 Premiere
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Max (formerly HBO Max) began streaming on Tuesday a trailer for the second season for the live-action series adaptation of American reporter Jake Adelstein's Tokyo Vice book, and it reveals that the season will premiere on February 8.
The 10-episode second season will debut with two episodes. The service will then stream one episode weekly for the rest of the season.
The series will premiere on Japan's WOWOW service in spring.
New cast members include Yōsuke Kubozuka as Naoki Hayama, a yakuza who returns after being released from prison, and Miki Maya as Shoko Nagata, a detective from Japan's National Police Agency who becomes Katagiri's partner. Returning cast from the first season are Ansel Elgort as the protagonist reporter Jake, Ken Watanabe as the experienced cop Katagiri, Rinko Kikuchi as Jake's senior reporter Eimi Maruyama, Rachel Keller as the hostess Samantha Porter, and Show Kasamatsu as Satō, a young yakuza leader.
Alan Poul, Josef Kubota Wladyka, Takeshi Fukunaga, and Eva Sørhaug are directing the second season. J.T. Rogers is credited as creator and writer. WOWOW is co-producing the series.
The project was initially planned as a film, with Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter films) initially starring as Adelstein. The project turned into a 10-episode television series, with Michael Mann directing the first season.
Adelstein wrote about crime and the yakuza for the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper. Adelstein became entangled with the yakuza because of his work and specifically with yakuza boss Tadamasa Goto, and wrote about his experiences in Tokyo Vice.
