April entered the blowout period of good dramas, in addition to the return of popular dramas such as "Wind Lawyer" and "Black Money Resort", new dramas with different themes are also expected.
One of them exploded on the first day of launch—
"Tokyo Crime"
Tokyo Vice
Produced by HBO, a total of 8 episodes.
It is reported that the budget of the show is as high as 8.8 billion yen, or about 80 million US dollars.
"Tokyo Sin" is based on the documentary literary work of the same name by Jack Adelstein, who worked as an investigative journalist at the Yomiuri Shimbun for 12 years, and from his point of view, he told the world about the evil life of the Japanese underworld and unveiled the unprecedented Japanese cultural landscape.
The show was launched on April 7 on HBO Max, and currently has an IMDb rating of 8.3 and a Douban rating of 8.2.
Set in Tokyo in the 1990s, "Jack" is a Tokyo transfer student.
Jack grew up with his father, who was a doctor, and thought it was a great achievement to piece together the truth through details.
So Jack left his hometown and came to Japan, and aspired to enter the first newspaper in Japan, and even the top newspaper in the world, the Ming tone news Tokyo Main Office.
After some hard preparation, he was successfully admitted to the MingTong News Agency, and he was the only foreigner to enter the company.
Foreigners are not having a good time at the newspaper, colleagues are rejected, leaders are dismissive, and the situation does not seem to have improved after a long time of pouring water.
At the same time, he found that the newspaper he dreamed of was not a place to "tell the truth and report the truth", but instead colluded with the police, did not seek facts, and blindly wrote according to the "intelligence" provided by the police, completely reduced to a "microphone".
Shortly after Jack entered the newspaper, he encountered two big cases.
The first was an uncle dying on the side of the road with a dagger in his chest and covered in blood.
Apparently, this was a murder.
Who is the murderer? Why kill him?
Jack was assigned to write the news report.
With these doubts in mind, Jack found his home address and found a debt collection letter from the mailbox.
The victim appears to have owed a loan shark before he died.
But looking down at the address on the envelope, I found that the loan shark company had long been empty.
He combined his investigation with police statements and wrote a news report, which was dismissed by the leadership.
The reason is that it is impossible to write what the police have not disclosed, and all the reporter can do is call the police and write their words as they are.
Jack didn't understand the behavior, but he was desperate to have a real report to prove his ability.
So Jack approached Detective Miyamoto and asked him how to work with the police.
Although Miyamoto is a policeman, he is treacherous and lustful, eats and drinks like a prostitute, often bullying people, and the surrounding merchants dare not speak out against him.
The reason why Heyshe agreed to Jack was actually to get Jack to teach him to talk to foreign beauties in bars.
Through Miyamoto, Jack finally understood that the reporter could not write the reason for the murder:
"Because once the news is exposed, but the police can't catch the murderer, it will reduce the case solving rate."
For the sake of the police, there are "no more" homicides in Japan.
Everything can be prevaricated with "accidents", unless there is a specific witness willing to testify.
This phenomenon stunned Jack, and before he could digest it, a new case reappeared.
An uncle set himself on fire in a downtown neighborhood...
Jack watched as a living man was burned black in the fire and eventually fell to the ground and died.
What exactly made him despair enough to end his life in this way?
Jack noticed that the logo on the matchbox used by the uncle who had set himself on the fire was the same as the one on the debt collection letter, which came from a money lending company.
Perhaps, the self-immolation uncle also owes a loan shark.
Through the words of the uncle's wife, Jack also confirmed his idea.
Both people were indebted to usury and died inexplicably, and there must be inextricable links between them.
As he investigates deeper, Jack discovers that there is no escape from the underworld behind the case.
But on the borders of Tokyo, there are many gangs in the underworld, and they are entangled in this land for too long, and it is difficult to catch them all.
Even the police will not rush to arrest them.
At the same time, different factions will also compete for territory.
Originally, the big guy in Jack's jurisdiction was the Thousand Plains Association, who charged merchant protection fees, and also shielded the merchants from being disturbed by other.
Recently, however, a new faction of Tozawa appeared and provoked the Senharakai by suppressing merchants, hoping to seize their territory.
Arrogant enough to dare to shoot directly at the bar under the jurisdiction of the Senhara Society, it was the Kataaki police detective who came forward to persuade him to stop.
Kirito is a detective in the Tokyo Anti-Mafia Group who is honest and kind.
However, there has long been collusion between the police and the underworld, and he cannot choose anything as a small police detective, and can only silently endure the rampant underworld.
Jack witnesses all this and finds Kata kirito hoping to learn about Tokyo's untold secrets.
At his insistence, Katatsuki decided to cooperate with him, not only quietly providing him with the clues accumulated over the years, but also taking him to personally experience the scene of the arrest and contribute private headlines.
However, it is said that the arrest is actually just a negotiation, allowing Tozawa to symbolically give it to two people.
On the one hand, it is to save the face of the police, and on the other hand, to avoid conflict, which has been the practice for many years.
The dark corners behind the bustling city are emerging little by little, and how Jack and Kataaki will work together to sweep away the blacks and whether the truth can be exposed to the world is still unknown.
It is precisely because of the greed, cowardice and inaction of the police that the underworld is entangled and rampant.
With the collusion of the police and bandits, the lives of the people of Tokyo are not as good as they seem.
In the play, Jack does not understand why people who commit suicide in Tokyo often choose to go outdoors, and the local explains to him that if the suicide damages the house, the homeowner will hold the relatives of the deceased liable.
Both cases chose to end their lives due to high debts, but even death has to consider whether they will be in debt again, which is really regrettable...
At present, "Tokyo Sin" has been updated with 3 episodes, and the rhythm of the whole drama is not bad, and the layers are progressive, which makes people have a great desire to continue watching.
Fans who like this type of drama can also download it to see.