Similiar in that they are both international with American actors -- both feature Japanese and American actors.
Shogun is Set in Japan in the year 1600, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.
Tokyo Vice is set in 1999, American journalist Jake Adelstein has relocated to Tokyo and must pass a written exam in Japanese to have the chance to join the staff of a major Japanese newspaper. He succeeds in becoming their first foreign-born journalist and starts at the very bottom. Taken under the wing of a veteran detective in the vice squad, he starts to explore the dark and dangerous world of the Japanese yakuza whilst living under the city's official line that "murder does not happen in Tokyo".
Shogun is Set in Japan in the year 1600, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.
Tokyo Vice is set in 1999, American journalist Jake Adelstein has relocated to Tokyo and must pass a written exam in Japanese to have the chance to join the staff of a major Japanese newspaper. He succeeds in becoming their first foreign-born journalist and starts at the very bottom. Taken under the wing of a veteran detective in the vice squad, he starts to explore the dark and dangerous world of the Japanese yakuza whilst living under the city's official line that "murder does not happen in Tokyo".
On a spring day Munakata Ikujou visited an old temple to view a 1000 years old sakura tree. There Ikujou discovered a 3-year-old girl and adopted her as his own daughter. 16 years later, Sakurako has grown up to become a beautiful woman. Sakurako then has a fateful meeting with Takanashi Hiroto. Their pure love begin.
Jake Adelstein is the first Western reporter ever to write for a Japanese-language newspaper.
Based on his memoir, "Tokyo Vice" is Jake's daily descent into the neon-soaked underbelly of Tokyo, where he embeds himself into the police squad and becomes enmeshed in the hidden, complex, and corrupted cultures of the city's vice cops and the criminal underworld.
"Tokyo Vice" takes us deep into a series of overlapping worlds, where no one and nothing is who or what they seem.
~~ Loosely inspired by the memoir "Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan" by Jake Adelstein.
~~ A co-production between the U.S.A and Japan. Edit
Based on his memoir, "Tokyo Vice" is Jake's daily descent into the neon-soaked underbelly of Tokyo, where he embeds himself into the police squad and becomes enmeshed in the hidden, complex, and corrupted cultures of the city's vice cops and the criminal underworld.
"Tokyo Vice" takes us deep into a series of overlapping worlds, where no one and nothing is who or what they seem.
~~ Loosely inspired by the memoir "Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan" by Jake Adelstein.
~~ A co-production between the U.S.A and Japan. Edit
