skillzdadirecta Posted April 22, 2022 Author Share Posted April 22, 2022 Episodes 6 and 7 were released last night. The thickening plot is starting to thicken.Season should be wrapped up next week I think, right? There's only three episodes left and they may release all three next week. I like this model of releasing more than one episode a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 As interesting as this show is, it would be VASTLY better if they excised the entire storyline involving the American hostess and her generic Slavic friend whose characters are so mind-numbingly boring that I can't even be bothered to remember their names. For me, whenever that storyline appears on-screen, the show grinds to a halt and my eyes start to glaze over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 On 4/22/2022 at 10:50 AM, skillzdadirecta said: Episodes 6 and 7 were released last night. The thickening plot is starting to thicken.Season should be wrapped up next week I think, right? There's only three episodes left and they may release all three next week. I like this model of releasing more than one episode a week. As far as I can tell, it's an eight episode series so there's one left - perhaps it will be far longer than the others? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dre801 Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 If I keep watching this show, I'm gonna start smoking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted April 24, 2022 Author Share Posted April 24, 2022 1 hour ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: As far as I can tell, it's an eight episode series so there's one left - perhaps it will be far longer than the others? IMDB has it listed as 10 episodes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 14 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: As interesting as this show is, it would be VASTLY better if they excised the entire storyline involving the American hostess and her generic Slavic friend whose characters are so mind-numbingly boring that I can't even be bothered to remember their names. For me, whenever that storyline appears on-screen, the show grinds to a halt and my eyes start to glaze over. It's actually loosely based on a case the author was involved in. She was a hostess who ended up murdered by a Yakuza member (and her family fought for like a decade to punish the killer). It was what "Made" Adelstein in the Japanese newspaper business. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 On 4/24/2022 at 12:01 AM, skillzdadirecta said: IMDB has it listed as 10 episodes. Based on today's reviews, it really is only one episode today for the finale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted April 28, 2022 Author Share Posted April 28, 2022 3 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Based on today's reviews, it really is only one episode today for the finale. Is it a really long episode? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 8 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: Is it a really long episode? Nope! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 Well, I had always assumed this was a limited series, but it's clearly season 1 of a TV show. The finale is great but only works as a season finale, and is awful as a series finale. We didn't even get back to the opening that takes place two years later from episode 1. The show has yet to be renewed for a season 2 but color me surprised. Really enjoyed the show and with the way things were building makes sense to do a season 2, hope we get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 ‘Tokyo Vice’ Renewed for Season 2 at HBO Max WWW.HOLLYWOODREPORTER.COM The series starring Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe has been under fire over the validity of its source material. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 So I guess HBO doesn't mind Ansel Elgort's allegations? Because he basically learned Japanese for the role, he's not exactly replaceable on this show (and he was good, surprisingly, in it). Great, great news otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Tokyo Vice finished shooting before the strikes took place, so season 2 is releasing February 2024. Should be good. Tokyo Vice Live-Action Series' 2nd Season Premieres in February on Max WWW.ANIMENEWSNETWORK.COM 2nd season premieres in February on Max, in spring on WOWOW in Japan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_BJ_ Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Somehow missed this was renewed. Enjoyed this show a lot, looking forward to season 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Commissar SFLUFAN Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Hah! I just realized that this debuts just a couple of weeks after the release of Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth and a couple of weeks before the Shōgun miniseries on Hulu. That's a helluva lot of Japan-related media in the space of a month! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jwheel86 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Was this worth watching? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 59 minutes ago, Jwheel86 said: Was this worth watching? Yes, it absolutely is provided you can tolerate the boring as all hell parts with the American hostess and her generic Slavic friend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 59 minutes ago, Jwheel86 said: Was this worth watching? Absolutely. Michael Mann directed the pilot, setting the style and tone of the show, and they got some premium directors to do the other episodes. 58 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Yes, it absolutely is provided you can tolerate the boring as all hell parts with the American hostess and her generic Slavic friend. Basically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 Just a reminder to everyone the first two episodes of this ten-episode season dropped last Thursday (with one new episode coming out each Thursday following). Interesting they expanded season 1's 8-episode length to 10 episodes, which I think will allow the show some breathing room given how fast paced season 1 was. Anyways, the first two episodes are really good - very engaging, streamlining out the weaknesses of season 1 while focusing on the strengths. Episode 1 takes care of most of the cliffhangers from the end of season 1 (except whatever's going on with Tozawa) and episode 2 has a three month time jump which really helps to push things forward to new places. I also continue to appreciate this was shot in Japan and many scenes consist of people just speaking Japanese, including our two white characters. I really hope people support the show, it's something different that's being done at a high level. I could honestly just watch episodic stories of Jake covering other stories (as he does in episode 2) and hanging out with Ken Watanabe if the yakuza stuff with Sato wasn't also so engaging. The A.V. Club liked the first half of the season (which was all that was shown to critics), a fairly strong review. Tagging people from this thread who might be interested: @Commissar SFLUFAN @skillzdadirecta @johnny @Dre801 @_BJ_ Tokyo Vice season 2 review: A slow-burning sophomore run WWW.AVCLUB.COM Max's crime series returns with a more methodical, gripping, and atmospheric outing. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 I am watching and enjoying! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jwheel86 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 I'm one episode away from being caught up. How is this show not getting more attention? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Like @Jwheel86, I'm also one episode away from being caught up and am genuinely enjoying the living heck out of this season and its well-paced (at least so far!) narrative momentum...except when anything involving the American hostess is on-screen. This continues to be the least-engaging part of the show for me and could easily have been excised to give more space for something like @Greatoneshere's suggestion of a greater "episodic" approach of Jake covering individual stories apart from the overarching yakuza narrative through-line. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jwheel86 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 11 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Like @Jwheel86, I'm also one episode away from being caught up and am genuinely enjoying the living heck out of this season and its well-paced (at least so far!) narrative momentum...except when anything involving the American hostess is on-screen. This continues to be the least-engaging part of the show for me and could easily have been excised to give more space for something like @Greatoneshere's suggestion of a greater "episodic" approach of Jake covering individual stories apart from the overarching yakuza narrative through-line. If you read the real guy's wiki and the book's wiki you'll kind of understand why they included that entire plot in the show. There is 1 major and 1 spoilers in it fyi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Just now, Jwheel86 said: If you read the real guy's wiki and the book's wiki you'll kind of understand why they included that entire plot in the show. There is 1 major and 1 spoilers in it fyi. I have zero doubt that it's central to Jake's overall story, but that doesn't exactly make me "like" it any better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massdriver Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 Sounds like I need to watch this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 After watching the third episode of the current season, I have to say that the series' greatest strength is that it's supremely confident and competent in what it sets out to do: be a damned solid crime drama set in mid-90s Tokyo. The show definitely doesn't strive to attain the heights of what constituted the now-gone era of "prestige/peak television", but that's very much to its credit as it doesn't even attempt to allow its reach to outstretch its grasp. It knows exactly what it wants to be and it goddamned well executes it pretty near-perfectly! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jwheel86 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 Speaking of the Yakuza..... U.S. Attorney Announces Nuclear Materials Trafficking Charges Against Japanese Yakuza Leader WWW.JUSTICE.GOV Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Matthew G. Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s National Security Division; and Anne Milgram, the Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), announced the issuance today of a Superseding Indictment charging TAKESHI EBISAWA with conspiring with a network of associates to traffic nuclear materials from... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShreddieMercury Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 On 2/19/2024 at 8:14 PM, Commissar SFLUFAN said: After watching the third episode of the current season, I have to say that the series' greatest strength is that it's supremely confident and competent in what it sets out to do: be a damned solid crime drama set in mid-90s Tokyo. The show definitely doesn't strive to attain the heights of what constituted the now-gone era of "prestige/peak television", but that's very much to its credit as it doesn't even attempt to allow its reach to outstretch its grasp. It knows exactly what it wants to be and it goddamned well executes it pretty near-perfectly! I agree with this. I also think the dedication to shooting on location and using (to my eye) very minimal effects really elevates this above lots of other modern television for me. This is my only appointment viewing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_BJ_ Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 Man I love this show. Just saw S2E5 and what an ending! Haven't read up on the real story and will keep it that way, but I'm curious what happens with Samantha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 19 hours ago, _BJ_ said: Man I love this show. Just saw S2E5 and what an ending! Haven't read up on the real story and will keep it that way, but I'm curious what happens with Samantha. Hah! I got a chuckle from the parts of this recent episode that kinda/sorta turned into scenes from "The Wire" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted March 1 Author Share Posted March 1 16 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Hah! I got a chuckle from the parts of this current episode that kinda/sorta turned into scenes from "The Wire" I thought the same thing... I was like "Where have I seen this plot point before? " 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 Tonight's episode slowed down the pace just a bit, but it was definitely worthwhile to see Jake's relationship (such as it is) with his family. It just further solidified my opinion that Jake is really quite the asshole. Between this show and Shōgun, it seems that high quality, Japan-centric television is having a bit of a moment! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted March 23 Author Share Posted March 23 I'm guessing last night's episode was the season finale? Tozawa is shaping up to be an all time great TV villain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 5 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said: I'm guessing last night's episode was the season finale? Tozawa is shaping up to be an all time great TV villain. There are two more episodes remaining for this season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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