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, pictured) as he tries to make it big in Tokyo, but he soon runs into trouble in the city’s neon-soaked late 90s underbelly.

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.

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.

Continues after the news.