[ Move over, Jake and Katagiri: I think I’ve cracked the case. Yes, Shinzo Tozawa traveled to Minnesota for an illegal liver transport. Yes, he required help getting around his travel ban and into the country. Yes, the US Embassy’s FBI liaison Lynn Oberfeld (Geraldine Hughes) is involved, and is trying to cover it up. … Read more
[ Jake Adelstein isn’t even back in America a day when his mouth starts writing checks his ass can’t cash. He swears up and down that he’ll be there for his sister’s big journalism club Q&A. He tells his family he’ll involve them more in his life in Japan. And while this one is out … Read more
[ Tokyo Vice Season 2 is a confident show. It glides from character to character, plot point to plot point, and strength to strength. Its directors know how to frame and wrap light around the characters to make them seem as vivid and memorable as the high-frequency emotional tenor of the material demands. Its sex … Read more
[ EXCLUSIVE: Show Kasamatsu, one of the stars of Max’s acclaimed crime drama Tokyo Vice, has taken on new representatives at Brookside Artist Management and CAA. Currently in its second season, Tokyo Vice follows Jake Adelstein (Ansel Elgort), a Western journalist working for a publication in Tokyo who takes on one of the city’s most … Read more
[ “Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to begin our descent into Los Angeles.” That’s the first line of The Graduate. “Descent”: Technically it’s the pilot advising his passengers, including Dustin Hoffman, that they’re about to land, but as an old film professor taught us once it’s also writer Buck Henry’s way of saying “We’re … Read more
