Check out more of our Youtube Channel ©Courtesy of Netflix Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo’s program called…
@Courtesy of Netflix Thanks to the reforms of the Meiji Restoration, being a ronin (a masterless samurai, like Toshiro Mifune in Yojimbo) no longer looked so bad to old school warriors following the Bushido code. Even ronin had a level of status the new government denied the samurai, now called Shizoku. They lost their honor…
@Courtesy of Netflix Check out more of Our YouTube Channel Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo’s…
©Courtesy of Netflix The era of swords has come to an end, but the battle for survival is just beginning. In “Last Samurai Standing,” 292 fallen samurai — facing poverty, a pandemic, and a new regime that has rendered them relics — are lured into a violent game called Kodoku, in which the last competitor…
Tokyo Vice : Jake Adelstein, an American journalist, plugs into the Tokyo Vice police squad and descends into the neon underbelly of Tokyo. Creator : J. T. Rogers Executive Producer: J.T. Rogers, Ansel Elgort, John Lesher, Alan Poul, Emily Gerson Saines, Destin Daniel Cretton, Ken Watanabe, Michaell Mann, Jake Adesstein, Kayo Washio, Brad Caleb Kane….
It’s really sad to hear the news that a wonderful drama Series, Tokyo Vice, has come to a conclusion. At a panel at the PGA’s Produced By Conference in Los Angeles on Saturday, the producers confirmed that the show will be ending its existence on Warner Bros. Discovery platform. The series, which was initially developed…
Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Synopsis : In 1999, American journalist Jake Adelstein has relocated to Tokyo and must pass a written exam in Japanese to have the chance to join the staff of a major Japanese newspaper. He succeeds in becoming their first foreign-born journalist and starts at the…
©Tokyo Vice, Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe Tokyo Vice : In 1999, American journalist Jake Adelstein has relocated to Tokyo and must pass a written exam in Japanese to have the chance to join the staff of a major Japanese newspaper. He succeeds in becoming their first foreign-born journalist and starts at the very bottom. Taken…
Synopsis : A sweeping historical romance created to celebrate Toei’s 70th anniversary, The Legend & Butterfly casts megastars Takuya Kimura as Oda Nobunaga and Haruka Ayase as his wife, Nohime. While Oda Nobunaga is one of Japan’s most well-documented historical figures, virtually no information about Nohime remains, and The Legend & Butterfly fills this mystery…
HBO Max has renewed the Max Original drama series TOKYO VICE for a second season. From Endeavor Content and WOWOW, Japan’s leading premium pay TV broadcaster, the first season, which debuted in April, is available to stream on HBO Max. The series is Loosely inspired by American journalist Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction, first-hand account of the…
Synopsis : In 1999, American journalist Jake Adelstein has relocated to Tokyo and must pass a written exam in Japanese to have the chance to join the staff of a major Japanese newspaper. He succeeds in becoming their first foreign-born journalist and starts at the very bottom. Taken under the wing of a veteran detective…
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