Tokyo Vice
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This thing can stop a bullet?
No, they will not shoot you in a public place … these are for knives.
Adelstein and Katagiri are preparing for a staked-out dinner meeting with the number-two yakuza.
Theyre already sinking a level or two deeper into enemy territory.
We know what youre investigating, the No.
2 yakuza threatens Adelstein.
Walk away, it will be like it never happened.
Theres nowhere you’re able to hide.
Cut to 1999 Two Years Earlier.
What do you think?
If we did, says Jake, do you think Id be happy with what youd pay me?
Jakes first official day atMeicho Shimbunisnt much warmer.
Pull back further, and were at a fresh crime scene.
By the way, what an absoluteget,am I right?
Just a dynamite presence.
This is also Jakes first stint at a crime scene and his first assignment for the paper.
But he gets into hot water when he says the victim was murdered in his first draft.
Jake tells her after buying a bottle and her brief company.
I want to report on what really happens.
Giving up and going home is not an option, you know what I mean?
Later that night, Jake watches an old man light himself on fire in the street.
Katagiri raises his suspicions, to which hes simply told, Our job is to clear cases.
Our two heroes have officially crossed the ethereal plane and met both physically and metaphysically magnetized by kismet.
The root of the yakuza runs so deep, we cannot get rid of them.
The cops are encouraged to maintain peace among the different camps.
Tokyo has been stable these last few years.
For now, there is the hope of no retaliation so the peace can hold.
Speaking of folks with fire in their belly, how about that Sato?
Is this guy a firecracker or what?
Really looking forward to watching his arch unfold.
You really feel the weight of a lesson hard when Oyabun severely reprimands him.
But whats beneath the surface?
But Jakes not buying it.
Tell me one real thing, he nearly pleads.
Impressed and thrown by Jakes perceptiveness, she reveals that she hasnt talked to her family in four years.
Its an olive branch extended to a fellow outsider who just confessed to having his own family issues.
Off the Record
I highly encourage everyone to read that Mann interview I mentioned up top.
Given the volume of content now available, the show has to have a signature.
It has to have an identity that stands it apart from the miasma of everything else.
That signature is what I tried to impart in the pilot.
Every so often on Film Twitter, theres a call to bring smokin cigs back to film and TV.
Youll be pleased to know that call has been answered and then some in this joint.
I very much appreciate the slow, methodic (and melodic) reveal of Jakes backstory.
A good mystery should be like peeling back the layers of an onion.
I thought it was worth mentioning in its own right the whole goddamn cast is fire.
Particularly excited to see more of Eimi, my new favorite ice queen.
Word on the neon-soaked streets is shes front and center in theAll the Presidents Menesque fourth episode.
Also worth pointing out that theres a lot of Japanese spoken on this show, which is rad.
Its like 50/50 English to Japanese, or at least it feels that way.
Youre an American, so you think youre more talented than you actually are.
