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Would have been better if it actually followed the structure of the book with a more episodic format and not having that shitty whore being a large focus and also removing that dumb cliff-hanger

I don't know if its the actor but he is overall an selfish asshole. No charisma.

jake adelstein is kind of a retard IRL so ansel elgort playing him that way kind of works

Him being an asshole is what makes him kino

So I assume it was explained in the book and will be in the next season why Sato was murdered by his underling, it didn't seem like it was foreshadowed at all unless Ishida called for it but that wouldn't make much sense.

I hate that line of thought. The entire world watch American movies and they don't need a "relatable" local character to introduce them to the movies. It's just American exceptionalism

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Sato was stabbed by that guy he punched into the ground like 5 episodes ago. He was probably jealous of Sato advancing in the organization while he was stuck doing his regular job despite he was Sato's sempai. I don't think Sato is dead but it's very unlikely Tokyo Vice will get a second season

Satobros...

That's basically 99.9% of women who were educated in the West in the last 2 decades. She literally embodies all the post-mordernist "stronk wyman" shit so beautifully lol
I really hope Sato and the other Yakuza fags steal his business next season.

That's so fucking depressing, I might buy the book now just in case. This show's kept me fucking sane for the past 2 months.

>Why would HBO, the traditional American company producing a show with English subtitles about an American man for an American audience, want to use the American man the book it was based on is about?

Jake is an ass of a character but the woman is worse. She gets murdered right? I hope?

There's no Sato in the book. I assumed that attack was Tozawa's doing now that Katagiri couldn't go after him, but the other user's interpretation is equally likely.

How Tozawa can be so manly despite not having a functional dick?

How do I get a voice like the Oyabun lads

Threadly reminder that if you erased the white girl from the series, literally nothing would change. Producers demanded that they add a white chick because muh audience and it's so obvious that her entire plotline is basically hamfisted in post-script.

I feel bad for the writers desu, probably wish she was gone forever so they could focus on the one Asian chick like they want to, but gotta have white bitches for a white audience.

This show is slow burn minus the burn.

White guy in Japan is the cringiest genre and it needs to be handled well. By default the white dude will always look out of place like someone wearing modern shoes with an ancient Pharoh Halloween costume looks out of place.

So to compensate for that awkwardness, the Gaijin has to be a fucking badass. Ansel is easily one of the least intimidating actors in Hollywood right now. (Come to think of it, there really aren’t too many intimidating badasses in Hollywood. Most have milked their career to the point of parody and the new “badasses” all sort of seem closet gay.

So now a days to be a badass in Hollywood you have to openly hate Hollywood and basically be blacklisted or close. This is why Mel Gibsons goofy ass and Gerard Butler can still pull off intimidating. (Possibly Harrison ford or Bruce Willis if they weren’t also so decrepid)

And I know that’s not acting but how you handle yourself in the business of Hollywood is directly proportional to how much of a vapid Cuck pedovore you become.

They throttled the industry and have closed the gates. If you wanna see a badass you’ll have to watch older stuff before the whose monopoly on Hollywood was totalitarian.

I felt Jared Leto (cringemessiah) actually did a much better job in his Gaijin flick, but mostly because he didn’t talk much haha.

Tokyo Vice is the epitome of Jewish TV. An autobiography filled with flattering past embellished tales of the author with modern political sentiments. Sato next to Ansel really shows you how pathetic Jake is and how obviously there is a lot missing as Jake is sort of a Mary Stew.

In all likelihood it’s possible irl jake was a crime family agent dealing secret deals with the Japanese officials and this memoir and TV show are obscurification and whitewashing. (Only reason it’s even remotely possible is because that’s exactly what they do with these types of “based on a true story” shows.

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anti-semite!

When did we learn that he was Sato's senpai? I must have missed it.

That could be it, though if he isn't in the books his future doesn't look so hot even if we get a second season.

Drink. smoke and have at least the double of testosterone levels of the average man

>Ansel is easily one of the least intimidating actors in Hollywood right now. (Come to think of it, there really aren’t too many intimidating badasses in Hollywood.
It's funny too, considering he's 6'4. He had this body looking perpetually chubby face and those tiny little eyes that don't exude any form of intelligence, altertness, etc.

me mumsy told me this was good telly. tell me, is she true?

The book is just Adelstein telling stories and talking about cases he covered. The show has very little to do with the book.

Sempai in this case mean he's been longer in the family. In the early episodes Sato is still under the wing of his recruiter and when Jake found him in the first episode, he mentioned Sato just got his tattoos

Could be worse. Think how the Umbrella Academy's writers feel dealing with Elliot Page's bullshit

Ah, I always thought that Sato was Kume's right hand man, while that other guy was still an initiate or something, since he would still wear the sweats, and when they fought he also only had one of his arms tatted as well.

Just skip all of the dumb blonde's scenes and its decent

>In all likelihood it’s possible irl jake was a crime family agent dealing secret deals with the Japanese officials and this memoir and TV show are obscurification and whitewashing
Lol, I think its much more likely he's just your average bullshit artist that knows he can get away with tall tales about fucking the wives of Yakuza mobsters and helping the Japanese police take down a Yakuza crime boss because that boss murdered his white Aussie prozzie friend (who he still only refers to using her pseudonym, as if she wouldn't have family back in Australia wondering what the fuck happened to their daughter who went missing in Japan)

Why did the blonde girl use our boy Sato so much and do him dirty like that when he loved her?

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Why didn't she have Sato beat up the scammers and get her money back?

just make a katagiri series
but in english for no explained reason

>it didn't seem like it was foreshadowed at all
the guy hated him all the time, and always seethed at hime

what's retarded is this shit not being a mini-series

this show doesn't share much with the book beyond the essential premise

I don't think this is controversial, but this show would be way better if they removed the Samantha character entirely. I still liked it overall, but her storyline was a slog.

Tokyo Vice probably sucks balls sober, but i had a blast marathoning the hotline tokyo show while on acid
>mfw the sex scenes with that 50 lb nip skelly with a pussy like a vice grip

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Come on now, sato will simp, doesnt matter he successfully pulled away, he feels too hard

The scene where Tozawa confronts Katagiri is fucking kino, the utter despair on Watanabe’s face really sells it, smart move to keep Miyamoto’s death offscreen too. Also I fucking love squarepusher

And you needed to watch it to know? All American series/movies in foreign countries are like that.

she was there to facilitate jake finding the story about polina paying off her debt as a prostitute and being accidentally killed after refusing the advances of the politician in the blackmail tape

>S-Tier
Sato, Oyabun, Tozawa
>A-Tier
Katagiri, Miyamoto (handsome cop, rip), Yabuki (Sato's mentor, rip)
>B-Tier
Post-wall Rinko Kikuchi, /pol/ina
>What-the-fuck-was-the-point Tier
All of Jake's coworkers, the rapey private detective who found Samantha
>Shit Tier
Jake, Samantha, Tozawa's mistress

>Sato next to Ansel really shows you how pathetic Jake is
sato is rising through the ranks of the yakuza and is disowned by his family
jake is a drama club kid turned weeaboo who ran away to japan
of course sato will be cooler

They work at netflix, they probably pushed her to transition themselves so they couldnt be cancelled for a hamfisted transgenderbender

Why didnt she just remember that her and jake literally smoked meth with a tozawa source who told her that polina is on a sex boat, and then immediately know the twink was bullshitting when he said "what boat?"
Dumb blonde bitches are, first and foremost, dumb.

Baku the newspaper boss yelling GAIJIN was funny. He deserved more screen time

Agreed. Him ripping Jake a new one after that panty thief debacle was entertaining.

>Post-wall Rinko Kikuchi
She's not post wall, she could still be bred every night by me!! FACT!!!111!!!>What-the-fuck-was-the-point Tier
garbage taste, jake's coworker bantz were hilarious, and casting couch PI was kino when he first got the drop on her at lunch.

Maybe. Sato does seem like a more interesting character

Rinko Kikuchi already had two children with her husband Shota Sometani

What makes you think we won't?

>creampied and impregnated by a shota
holy fucking based

There aren't many #tokyovice tweets, the few ones often say Tokyo Vice is an unlooked gem, at least in my zone it has never been in the top ten of viewership and finally normies only care for worst Korea. Japan was cool in the 90s/00s

>husband Shota

What do you mean, user?

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I read the book a few years ago and thought it was kino. Jake’s take on human sexual behavior after dealing with prostitutes and people in the sex trade is based.

Was it confirmed Miyamoto died?

How are the ratings?

television and movies are the lowest IQ form of entertainment that exists. it is sloppa for the retarded peasant masses to be placated by and its very existence began as technological innovations to create more powerful propaganda techniques. the entire industry could go jobless tomorrow and not a single iota of value would be lost.

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pretty accurate ranking, well done

It's streaming so we just don't know. Only HBO Max execs know.

He's on a place where his conscience isn't a problem for himself or for Tozawa so he's either dead or working for Disney

Why are cool dudes like Sato and Miyamoto even friends with an annoying dork like Jake

>enters your show
>kills all the likeable characters
>doesn't elaborate
>leaves for America

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