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Back in the 90s, Shunji Iwai had already established himself as a master of romance, but “Swallowtail Butterfly” redefined his craft and solidified him as a versatile filmmaker, showcasing his impressive ability to transcend genres. This film seamlessly blends a myriad of genres into a cohesive, all-encompassing tale of cinematic chaos. It is a science-fiction film, but also a musical at times, and a western, an action-thriller, a noir crime story, an entrancing mystery, a hilarious comedy, and a heartfelt coming-of-age drama. This may sound like the messy work of a madman, and it is, but in the best way.

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Tokyo Vice will not be returning for a third season. Max has confirmed the cancellation of the crime drama after two seasons on the streaming service. The 10-episode second season premiered in February.

The Tokyo Vice series, which stars Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi, Rachel Keller, Show Kasamatsu, Ayumi Ito, Yosuke Kubozuka, and Miki Maya, follows the first-hand account of the Tokyo crime scene by American journalist Jake Adelstein (Elgort).

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Although the second season does not have the element of surprise, as first seasons usually do, it is easy to say that the creators of “Tokyo Vice Season 2” did an excellent job this time also, by focusing even more to the series' best aspect, its characters.

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Jake's miraculous rise in the echelons of Meicho newspaper continues, with his relationship with both his superior, Maruyama, and his colleagues, Tin Tin and Trendy, being on its highest level. Maruyama listens to him and trusts him, as do the other two actually, frequently following his advice even. Even Baku, his racist, nationalistic boss seems to have warmed up to him, at least professionally, occasionally approving even his most daring suggestions. At the same time, the reappearance of Tozawa throws a shadow over everyone, including Jake, who has started a relationship with his former mistress,...

Season 2 of Tokyo Vice wasted no time ramping up its stakes, and in myriad surprising ways.

Episode 3 of the Max crime drama, which dropped last week, began to explore the complications and ramifications stemming from Jake Edelstein’s (played by Ansel Elgort) dangerous mistake made in the closing minutes of Episode 2.

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Spoiler Alert: This interview contains spoilers from the Season 2 premiere of HBO’s “Tokyo Vice,” now streaming on Max.

“Jake is being a very bad boy…”

That’s how Ken Watanabe, who plays detective Hiroto Katagiri, described Jake Adelstein’s (Ansel Elgort) actions at the end of “Tokyo Vice’s” Season 2 premiere. The second season picks off right where Season 1 ended in April 2022 and plugs viewers back into the neon-lit streets of Tokyo’s underbelly.

Loosely based on the memoir written by journalist Jake Adelstein, “Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan,” the show follows Adelstein as he works with detective Katagiri to expose the atrocities committed by the yakuza and dismantle organized crime in the city.

The jaw-dropping Season 2 premiere, which debuted on Max with two episodes, saw Jake, the Japan-based journalist, for lack of a better phrase, “sealing the deal” with Shinzo Tozawa’s (Ayumi Tanida) girlfriend,...

Curb Your Enthusiasm returns to Max this month in what’s being called the show’s final season (for now). If you’re not ready for the Larry David-centric comedy series to end, you can binge all eleven of the show’s previous seasons on Max right now before hitting the new episodes.

Tokyo Vice will also be back in February for season 2. Stars Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi, Rachel Keller, Show Kasamatsu, and Ayumi Ito are joined by Kubozuka and Miki Maya this time around, as Jake Adelstein feels the danger closing in on him. Max also welcomes you to the premiere of the highly acclaimed (and highly depraved) Dicks: The Musical this month, as a couple of self-obsessed businessmen discover they’re identical twins and decided to bring their divorced parents back together.

Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) HBO and Max this month…

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February may be the shortest month, but Max is staying true to its name with a jam-packed schedule of additions all month long!

In addition to dozens of library shows and movies getting added to the platform throughout February—from classics like “Citizen Kane” and “A Clockwork Orange” to recent A24 favorites like “Midsommar” and “Dicks: The Musical“—several major HBO premieres are coming this week to the cabler and its streamer, including Season 11 of “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” and the final season of the long-running “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

Find out The Streamable’s top picks for February, and continue below to the full list of everything new on Max this month!

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A premiere date for season two of Tokyo Vice has been announced. The Max crime drama will return with new episodes next month. The series debuted in April 2022.

Starring Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi, Rachel Keller, Show Kasamatsu, Ayumi Ito, and new series regulars Yosuke Kubozuka and Miki Maya, Tokyo Vice follows the first-hand account of the Tokyo crime scene by American journalist Jake Adelstein.

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Max has debuted the brand new trailer for the upcoming second season of Tokyo Vice!

Ansel Elgort stars in the drama as journalist Jake Adelstein, whose real life, first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat has loosely inspired the show.

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Here’s a synopsis: Season two, filmed on location in Tokyo, takes us deeper into the city’s criminal underworld as Adelstein (Elgort) comes to realize that his life, and the lives of those close to him, are in terrible danger.

Also starring in the series are returning actors Ken Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi, Rachel Keller, Show Kasamatsu and Ayumi Ito, as well as new series regulars Yosuke Kubozuka and Miki Maya.

Tokyo Vice season two is set to debut on Thursday, February 8th on Max with the first two episodes, followed by one new episode weekly for eight weeks.

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Season 2 of the crime thriller drama series “Tokyo Vice”, streams February 8, 2024 on Max:

“…inspired by the first-hand account of US journalist ‘Jake Adelstein', and the ‘Tokyo Metropolitan Police’nbeat, season two of the series, filmed on location in Tokyo, takes us deeper into the city's criminal underworld as ‘Adelstein’ (Ansel Elgort) comes to realize that his life, and the lives of those close to him, are in terrible danger…”

Cast also includes Ken Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi, Rachel Keller, Show Kasamatsu, Ayumi Ito, Yosuke Kubozuka and Miki Maya.

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Max has released the trailer for Season 2 of its original crime drama series “Tokyo Vice,” which will premiere on the streamer on Feb. 8 with the release of two episodes. Subsequently, one episode will debut every week for eight weeks.

Written and created by J.T. Rogers, Ansel Elgort stars as an American journalist from Missouri living in Tokyo.

The series’ synopsis reads, “Loosely inspired by American journalist Jake Adelstein’s first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat, Season 2 of the series, filmed on location in Tokyo, takes us deeper into the city’s criminal underworld, as Adelstein (Elgort) comes to realize that his life, and the lives of those close to him, are in terrible danger.”

In addition to Elgort, “Tokyo Vice” stars Ken Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi, Rachel Keller, Show Kasamatsu, Ayumi Ito, and new series regulars Yosuke Kubozuka and Miki Maya.

Watanabe stars as Hiroto Katagiri, a detective investigating...

Crime never sleeps, so it’s time for the Tokyo Vice squad to get back to work.

Season 2 of the Ansel Elgort-led crime drama will premiere Thursday, Feb. 8 on Max, TVLine has learned. The new season will debut with two episodes, with one new episode airing each Thursday after that.

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Ansel Elgort is returning to Japan for Season 2 of Max series “Tokyo Vice.”

The “West Side Story” star muses in the trailer that he loves the “unpredictability” of being a journalist abroad covering organized crime. However, the dangers of covering the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat pushes him deeper into the city’s criminal underworld.

“Tokyo Vice” is created and written by Tony Award winner J.T. Rogers and loosely based on real-life journalist Jake Adelstein’s experiences as an expat. Elgort stars as Adelstein, with Ken Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi, Rachel Keller, Show Kasamatsu, and Ayumi Ito reprising their respective roles for Season 2.

Yosuke Kubozuka and Miki Maya join the cast as new series regulars for the 10-episode second season.

“Tokyo Vice” Season 2 debuts with the first two episodes, followed by weekly installments. The series is executive produced by creator Rogers and director Alan Poul along with Michael Mann, Destin Daniel Cretton,...

The films of Shunji Iwai present a view of the world in an almost dreamlike manner. That said, no matter how stylized his work can be, he’s never afraid to offer a raw portrait of reality. The youthful years of people’s lives are generally a time of happiness and growth, building memories that, years later, can be looked back on with a happy sense of nostalgia. Yet, the harsh truth is that’s heartbreakingly not always the case, and in a country like Japan, issues such as bullying remain a major problem. Combined with experimental filmmaking, Iwai would make a feature following Japanese youth lost in sorrow and partaking in misguided behavior. That harrowing film is “All About Lily Chou-Chou.”

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Tokyo! Directed by: Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon-ho Written by: Gabrielle Bell, Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon-ho Starring: Ayako Fujitani, Ayumi Ito, Ryo Kase, Denis Lavant, Jean-François Balmer, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yû Aoi Historically, short films have never really received much mainstream attention because, let's face it, you can't exactly put them in a movie theatre and charge full price for admission. They've mostly been relegated to the realm of film festivals and YouTube, but every now and then someone comes up with a clever way to package a collection of short films and sell it to the public. The 2007 film Paris, Je T'aime had a fairly successful (albeit limited) theatrical run collecting 18 shorts from such directors as The Coen Brothers, Tom Tykwer, Gus Van Sant and Wes Craven. It eventually spawned a sequel of sorts called, New York, I Love You. Following in the footsteps of these films comes Tokyo!

      We have new clips in from Liberation Entertainment and Vitagraph Films' "Tokyo." They are as follows: · Interior Design clip: Dead Cat · Merde clip: Green Suit Guy · Shaking Tokyo clip: Blinding Light   All clips are in the same player above.   What are the films within "Tokyo" about?   "Interior Design" (Dir. Michel Gondry) Hiroko and Akira (Ayako Fujitani and Ryo Kase), a young couple, arrive in Tokyo to pursue their careers, moving in temporarily with Hiroko's old friend Akemi (Ayumi Ito), a career girl whose boyfriend quickly tires of the houseguests. Hiroko and Akira appear to have a solid and mutually supportive relationship that will seemingly carry them through any challenge. Akira, the young man, takes steps towards his ambition to become a filmmaker, but the woman is less sure of herself and gradually she begins to lose herself in the vast city. Ultimately she under-goes a surreal metamorphoses that gives her...

The New York release of Tokyo! is right around the corner! In honor of next week’s release, Liberation Entertainment and Vitagraph Films have just provided some new clips from the film. Tokyo! Release Date: March 6 in New York , and March 20 in Los Angeles and Nationwide. Interior Design clip: Dead Cat- Merde clip: Green Suit Guy- Shaking Tokyo clip: Blinding Light- Synopses: “Interior Design” (Dir. Michel Gondry) Hiroko and Akira (Ayako Fujitani and Ryo Kase), a young couple, arrive in Tokyo to pursue their careers, moving in temporarily with Hiroko’s old friend Akemi (Ayumi Ito), a career girl whose boyfriend quickly tires of the [...]...

A still from the "Merde" segment of Tokyo! directed by Leos Carax

Photo: Liberation Entertainment I am not a huge fan of Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind) as everyone else seems to be. I am also not a huge fan of Joon-ho Bong's The Host, which I am sure knocks me down another notch in the kitchy online movie world. On top of all that I have no idea who French helmer Leos Carax is, but the three are teaming together for a film called Tokyo! due out on March 6 in New York and March 20 in Los Angeles. The three directors will each have a segment in the film with storylines as follows: "Interior Design" (Dir. Michel Gondry)

Hiroko and Akira (Ayako Fujitani and Ryo Kase),a young couple, arrive in Tokyo to pursue their careers, moving in temporarily with Hiroko's old friend...