![]() ![]() With its vivid, visceral descriptions of crime in Japan and an exploration of the world of modern-day yakuza that even few Japanese ever see, Tokyo Vice is a fascination, and an education, from first to last. Tokyo Vice es una serie de televisión de HBO Max basada sobre el libro homónimo de Jake Adelstein. However, since the drama began airing, controversy has arisen surrounding just how accurate the original memoir is. ![]() In Tokyo Vice, Adelstein tells a riveting, often humorous tale of his journey from an inexperienced cub reporter - who made rookie mistakes like getting in a martial-arts battle with a senior editor - to a daring, investigative journalist with a price on his head. Tokyo Vice is based on the memoir of the real life Jake Adelstein, entitled Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan, and published in 2009. ![]() But when his final scoop brought him face to face with Japan's most infamous yakuza boss - and the threat of death for him and his family - Adelstein decided to step down … momentarily. An American In Japan, Investigating The Tokyo Vice In his most appealing work to date, Ansel Elgort stars as Jake, a good humored if cocksure Missourian whose excellent Japanese enables him. For twelve years of eighty-hour work weeks, he covered the seedy side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human trafficking, and corruption are as familiar as ramen noodles and sake. What he got was a life of crime … crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious Yomiuri Shinbun. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. ![]()
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