‘Tokyo Vice’: STARZPLAY UK Picks Up Crime Thriller To Premiere In May
STARZPLAY UK has picked up the HBO Max crime thriller ‘Tokyo Vice‘ to premiere this May on the streaming service.
From Endeavor Content, ‘Tokyo Vice’ is loosely inspired by American journalist Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat. Filmed on location in Tokyo, the series captures Adelstein’s (Ansel Elgort) daily descent into the neon-soaked underbelly of Tokyo in the late ‘90s, where nothing and no one is truly what or who they seem.
In addition to Golden Globe nominee Elgort (‘West Side Story’, ‘Baby Driver’), the series also stars Academy Award nominee Ken Watanabe (‘The Last Samurai’, ‘Inception’, ‘Batman Begins’), Academy Award nominee Rinko Kikuchi (‘Babel’), Rachel Keller (‘Fargo’, ‘Legion’) Ella Rumpf (‘Succession’, ‘Freud’), Hideaki Itô (‘Umizaru’), Show Kasamatsu and Tomohisa Yamashita (‘Code Blue: The Movie’, ‘The Head’).
Tony Award-winning playwright J.T. Rogers created and wrote the series and also serves as executive producer. Four-time Academy Award nominee and Emmy winner Michael Mann directed the pilot and is an executive producer along with Emmy winner Alan Poul, Adelstein, Elgort, Emmy winner Emily Gerson Saines, Brad Kane, Destin Daniel Cretton (‘Shang-Chi and the legend of the Ten Rings’), Watanabe, Kayo Washio, and Academy Award winner John Lesher (‘Birdman’).
If you’re wondering how to get STARZPLAY UK, it is available for download on iOS, as well as on a wide range of Android supported devices as an app. You can also get it as an additional Amazon Prime Video Channel, on the Apple TV app, ROKU devices, and selected Smart TVs. It is also available direct to Virgin TV customers as an additional subscription to their package. You can find out more at www.starzplay.co.uk.
‘Tokyo Vice‘ premieres Sunday, 15th May 2022, in Austria, Germany, Switzerland (German-speaking), Ireland and the UK on STARZPLAY. The first two episodes will be available at launch, with new episodes airing Sundays. The series launches on April 7, 2022, on HBO Max in the USA.
