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    Review: 'Tokyo Vice' is a canny, suspenseful adventure story

    by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Apr 07, 2022 4 minutes
    Ansel Elgort portrays a reporter in the gritty crime drama, "Tokyo Vice."

    Jake Adelstein, the first non-Japanese reporter on staff at Japan's largest newspaper, has had his 2009 memoir about working the police beat adapted into a 10-episode series for HBO Max, "Tokyo Vice." Half that meal has been made available for review, and it is so far an intriguing mix of familiar flavors and unusual spices. How it finishes we will learn together, but so far, so very good.

    I can't swear that a publisher's idea to swipe a title led to a producer's idea to get "Miami Vice" executive producer Michael Mann to direct the pilot, but in any case, that happened. (He is also an executive producer.) Like that series, the

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