director:
Alan Poul
/
HIKARI
/
Josef Kubota Wladyka
/
Michael Mann
playwright:
Adam Stein
/
J.T. Rogers
/
Arthur Phillips
/
Brad Kane
/
Jessica Brickman
…
actor:
Ansel Elgort
/
Ken Watanabe
/
Rachel Keller
/
Hideaki Ito
/
Show Kasamatsu
…
genre:
Drama
/
Crime
/
Thriller
region:
USA
language:
English
season number: 1
number of episodes: 8
release date:
2022-04-07
(USA)
/
2022-04-24
(Japan)
IMDb: tt2887954
overview
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.