I have never felt the need to champion a TV show that was cancelled to be revived. As much as I may have enjoyed a show, if the powers that be had decided to nix it, oh well, there’s plenty of other shows to keep me occupied on TV. But as I looked over the shows I’ve watched this last year I reminded myself how much I really loved Tokyo Vice, especially this year’s Tokyo Vice season 2, and how disheartened I was that the show was cancelled by Max. So, let me get on my soap box now and make the case for why somebody needs to come in to make Tokyo Vice season 3.
Tokyo Vice was (loosely) based on the accounts of American journalist Jake Adelstine (Ansel Elgort) as he worked the police beat in Tokyo in the 1990s. The first two seasons focused primarily on Jake’s efforts to bring down the dangerous yakuza leader Tozawa (Ayumi Tanida), working alongside Tokyo detective Hiroto Katagiri (Ken Watanabe). The show also focused on Jake’s relationship with fellow American expat Samantha (Rachel Keller), rising yakuza member Sato (Sho Kasamatsu) and his fellow members of the Tokyo newspaper he works with, including his editor Eimi (Rinko Kikuchi).
