HBO Max series 'Tokyo Vice' is based on a nonfiction memoir by Jake Adelstein that has now come under fire for misrepresenting the truth.
Tokyo Vice may have brought the sort of prestige one would normally associate with HBO to its streaming subsidiary, HBO Max, but a new article at The Hollywood Reporter suggests that the non-fiction source material for the show might not be entirely factual. Sources cited in the report claim that some of journalist Jake Adelstein’s stories in his 2009 memoir, “Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan,” could range from “exaggerated” to “fictional.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY His former colleague Naoki Tsujii, who started with Adelstein at the newspaper, said that certain situations described in the book simply could not have happened. On Adelstein’s story about impersonating somebody in an undercover investigation, Tsujii said: Tokyo Vice’s Oscar-winning executive producer John Lesher appeared to distance himself from the controversy, and said that the series is merely “inspired” by the book. In his own words:
The THR report also cited people who support Adelstein’s claims but noted that he canceled a meeting at the last minute after promising to furnish his reporter’s notebooks to back some of his stories. It also quoted Philip Day, a director-producer for a National Geographic project on which Adelstein was brought on board as a consultant, as flatly saying that he doesn’t believe in Adelstein’s claims of being well-connected in the underworld of Japan.
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