TOKYO VICE

BBC1, 9.10pm

Loosely inspired by American journalist Jake Adelstein’s first-hand account, this crime drama follows the reporter (played by Ansel Elgort) as he tries to make it big in Tokyo.

But he soon runs into trouble after a rapid descent into the city’s neonsoaked underbelly in the late 1990s.

Hired as prestigious newspaper Meicho Shimbun’s first foreign reporter, Adelstein finds himself covering seemingly unrelated cases – but quickly grows suspicious that more nefarious forces are at play.

Assigned to the crime desk and tasked with covering a stabbing, Adelstein becomes convinced the case is connected to something much bigger. But he discovers that in Tokyo, journalists don’t ask too many questions – if they know what’s good for them.

After embedding himself into the Tokyo Metro Police Department, alongside Detective Hiroto Katagiri (Ken Watanabe), he is thrust into a seedy, fast-paced world of corruption, crime, and deception where nothing is what it seems.

Continues with episode two after the news.

SUSPICIOUS Reporter Adelstein