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Apr 2024

26m 53s

Tokyo Vice Season One Review

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Welcome back to Story Archives. On this solo episode, Mario gives his review of Tokyo Vice, Season One. Streaming on HBO Max, Tokyo Vice follows the story of Jake Adelstein (Ansel Elgort), an American journalist working for a publication in Tokyo, looking to take on one of the city's most powerful Yakuza crime bosses with the help of Detective Katagiri (Ken Watanabe).

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