TV

Tokyo Vice: Season 1

The television series Tokyo Vice—created and written by J.T. Rogers, starring Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe, with a pilot directed by Michael Mann—is on Max. Tokyo Vice is based on the life of Jake Adelstein, lifelong friend of J.T.’s and the first Westerner ever hired to write in Japanese for a Japanese newspaper.

Straight out of college in 1990s Tokyo, and desperate not to return home to Missouri, Jake wills himself into a job on the bottom rung of the ladder of a leading Japanese newspaper. He’s assigned to the crime beat and his life soon becomes enmeshed in the hidden, complex cultures of the city’s vice cops and the criminal underworld of the Yakuza. Tokyo Vice takes us deep into a Tokyo never seen before on Western television.

 

Tokyo Vice: Season 2

Shot in Tokyo, the second season delves further into the city's criminal underworld, revealing to Adelstein (Elgort) the grave danger looming over his life and those dear to him. Season 2 stars Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi, Rachel Keller, Sho Kasamatsu, Ayumi Ito, and new series regulars Yosuke Kubozuka and Miki Maya.

 

Film

Oslo

*UPDATE: OSLO RECEIVES THE CRITICS CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST TV FILM, AND 2 EMMY NOMINATIONS, INCLUDING OUTSTANDING TELEVISION MOVIE!*

Now available on HBO & HBO Max is the film of Oslo, with a screenplay by JT Rogers. Directed by the Tony Award-winner Bartlett Sher, the film stars Ruth Wilson and Andrew Scott as the married Norwegian couple who initiated secret back-channel peace talks between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, leading to the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords. It also features Itzik Cohen, Salim Daw, Sasson Gabay, Dov Glickman, Rotem Keinan, Igal Naor, Jeff Wilbusch, Tobias Zilliacus, and Waleed Zuaiter.

Executive Producers include Marc Platt (Bridge of Spies, La La Land, Wicked), Kristie Macosko Krieger (The Post), and Steven Spielberg. Rogers, Bartlett Sher, and Cambra Overend are also Executive Producers.