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Koshi Uehara as Taro, a member of Ishida's organization.Eugene Nomura as Kobayashi, Ishida's right-hand man.Shun Sugata as Hitoshi Ishida, the leader of the Chihara-kai yakuza clan which includes Sato.Masato Hagiwara as Duke, the owner of the Onyx hostess club.Kosuke Tanaka as " Tintin" Shinohara, Jake's witty friend and coworker.Takaki Uda as "Trendy" Kurihira, Jake's handsome friend and coworker.Kōsuke Toyohara as Baku, Jake's by-the-books, racist nationalist boss.A kind-hearted but naive woman, she came to Tokyo to work as a model but was pulled into the seedy underbelly of Kabukicho. Ella Rumpf as Polina, an Eastern European migrant, and a struggling new hostess at the Onyx Club with Samantha.Rinko Kikuchi as Emi Maruyama, Adelstein's supervisor, a composite of the various colleagues and supervisors who worked with the real life Adelstein during his career.He secretly has a crush on her and is disillusioned by the yakuza lifestyle which he sees as anachronistic. Shō Kasamatsu as Sato, an enforcer in the Chihara-kai yakuza clan who collects protection money and is Samantha's handler at the Onyx Club.Hideaki Itō as Jin Miyamoto, a vice squad detective who is Jake's first contact in the police department but who is secretly working with the yakuza.

Her clients vary from salarymen to high-end clients and yakuza.

Rachel Keller as Samantha Porter, an American expatriate living in Tokyo and former Mormon who makes her living as a hostess in the Onyx Club of the Kabukicho district.

He is a father figure to Adelstein who helps guide him through the thin and often precarious line between the law and organized crime.

Ken Watanabe as Hiroto Katagiri, a detective in the organized crime division.

The longer he stays, the more he delves into the corruption of Tokyo's seedy underworld, where no one is as they seem.

Ansel Elgort as Jake Adelstein, an American journalist from Missouri who moves to Tokyo.

Taken under the wing of a veteran detective in the vice squad, he starts to explore the dark and dangerous world of the Japanese yakuza whilst living under the city's official line that "murder does not happen in Tokyo".Ĭast and characters Main He succeeds in becoming their first foreign-born journalist and starts at the very bottom. 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. In June 2022, the series was renewed for a second season. It stars Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe in lead roles. It premiered on April 7, 2022, on HBO Max.

Rogers and based on the 2009 book of the same title by Jake Adelstein. Tokyo Vice is an American crime drama television series created by J.T.