Michael Mann fills out the cast of his HBO Max drama Tokyo Vice, though Ansel Elgort is still there
Ken Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi, and Ansel Elgort lead the cast of the series
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Michael Mann has expanded the cast of his long-in-the-works HBO Max drama Tokyo Vice, with Japanese actors Hideaki Ito, Show Kasamatsu, and Tomohisa Yamashita joining Rinko Kikuchi, Ella Rumpf, Rachel Keller, and stars Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe. Now, before you question the appearance and general existence of Ansel Elgort, we should point out that Tokyo Vice is based on the memoir of American writer Jake Adelstein, who covered the crime beat for Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun for 12 years. We’re not defending the fact that the Western entertainment industry believes that every story that isn’t necessarily about white people needs to have a white person at the center, we’re just pointing out why that seems to be the case here. (This doesn’t seem to be a Last Samurai-style fictionalization, or at least not as much of one.)