Beijing News (reporter Yang Lianjie) On March 5, Michael Mann's new HBO MAX drama "Tokyo Vice" began filming in Tokyo, and announced that Kikuchi Rinko joined as the director of the male lead in "Yomiuri Shimbun". "Tokyo Sin" also stars Ken Watanabe and Ansel Elget ("Extreme Car Thief").
This is the first time that the famous director Michael Man has worked with Ken Watanabe and Kikuchi Rinko.
Kikuchi is the first Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2007 for her performance in the film Tower of Babel, in which she played Chie, a high school student with hearing impairments. It is reported that john Lescher, the producer of "Tokyo Sin", was worried about Kikuchi's ability to speak English, but director Michael Mann strongly advocated inviting Kikuchi to join. In the play, Ansel Elgert plays Jack Adelstein, an American investigative journalist who worked at the Yomiuri Shimbun for 12 years, and Rinko Kikuchi plays his supervisor. In addition, Masaru Yamamoto will play Adelstein's colleague, who is also a journalist. Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai, Godzilla 2) will play a Detective in Tokyo and mentor to Adelstein.
"Tokyo Crime" is based on Jack Adelstein's documentary work of the same name, Tokyo Crime (A Transcript of a Japanese Police Interview with an American Journalist). The book presents Jack Adelstein's observations and investigations of organized crime and Japanese society in Japan as an American journalist who worked at the Yomiuri Shimbun for 12 years. In the book, he wrote about Tadanoshimasa Goto of the "Goto Group" undergoing a liver transplant at a Los Angeles hospital, and someone had threatened to kill him if he published the stories. Tokyo Sin was published in 2009 and translated into several languages, but has not yet been published in Japan.
Beijing News reporter Yang Lianjie
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