Tokyo Vice: Season 2 | Inside: The Beginning - Max
Join the cast and creators of Tokyo Vice as they discuss the transition into season 2 and the incorporating local cultural elements into the landscape of the show.
Season 2 of Tokyo Vice is streaming on Max.
Season 2 of Tokyo Vice is streaming on Max.
Transcript
00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:01 At the beginning of season two, we pick up directly
00:03 where season one left off.
00:06 We end on season one, the series of cliffhangers,
00:08 and begin season two there, answering those questions
00:11 and launching into the even larger stories of season two.
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00:18 Jake and Katergury are off to the races on how can
00:20 we capitalize on this tape.
00:23 You know what to do.
00:25 Get it published as soon as possible.
00:28 And then I will arrest Tozawa personally.
00:32 In planning the second season, we very much
00:35 wanted to expand our palette.
00:36 And we wanted to open up the show into the city even more.
00:41 Season one is a launch pad for season two.
00:44 Our story expands in a way that creates this vast chest
00:48 match with the audience.
00:48 The characters are trying to see how things connect.
00:52 [SPEAKING JAPANESE]
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00:57 [SPEAKING JAPANESE]
00:59 We created the worlds of the Hostess Clubs,
01:02 world of the police, the world of yakuza,
01:04 the world of newspapers.
01:05 My goal was to burrow deeper, deeper in.
01:08 The end of episode one, we have the loss
01:11 of this mysterious tape.
01:12 [SPEAKING JAPANESE]
01:14 [SPEAKING JAPANESE]
01:30 You know this wasn't an accident.
01:31 [SCREAMING]
01:33 One of the things that was most challenging about this season
01:36 was that our production plan was to shoot
01:38 blocks of two episodes.
01:40 But episode two picks up three months later.
01:42 It's a complete reset.
01:44 Samantha has just opened her new club.
01:46 Sato is healthy.
01:48 And Jake is no longer pursuing yakuza.
01:50 I'm keeping my nose clean.
01:52 As you said, other crimes to be exposed.
01:54 We have two main new characters this season.
01:57 At the beginning of season two, Hayama
02:00 gets pulled in by Ishida.
02:02 And it's a terrible fit from the start.
02:04 [SPEAKING JAPANESE]
02:07 [SPEAKING JAPANESE]
02:08 My goal was to create strong characters that
02:18 would shake up and challenge existing leads that we've
02:21 come to know and like to see them in a different light.
02:23 So for Katagiri, we created the role of Nagata.
02:27 [SPEAKING JAPANESE]
02:36 [SPEAKING JAPANESE]
02:37 Another area where we wanted to go deeper
02:42 is in the nightlife and the world of the hostess clubs.
02:46 Sam is opening her club.
02:48 But really, it's sort of an illusion
02:50 because she's made a deal with the yakuza.
02:54 For Club Paulina, I worked very closely
02:56 with Kikuo Ota, our brilliant production designer.
02:59 And from the very beginning, we wanted it to be more Japanese
03:03 in its aesthetic.
03:05 [SPEAKING JAPANESE]
03:06 In the first series, a lot of the dresses I wore
03:20 were '90s cape moss.
03:23 Japanese women, as a mama's son, typically wear kimono.
03:26 Kazuko Kurosawa created the most gorgeous dresses for me.
03:30 They took the style of painted fabrics
03:33 and made these really gorgeous dresses for Sam as mama's son
03:38 that still had that structure of a kimono
03:41 but was maybe more appropriate for a Western actor to wear.
03:44 [SPEAKING JAPANESE]
03:45 Season one, we are telling a story about,
03:53 careful what you wish for.
03:55 In season two, our paradigm was crossing the Rubicon.
03:59 The Rubicon, the river that must be crossed,
04:01 is what am I willing to do to help keep alive the people I
04:04 love, and what does that leave me at?
04:07 You know, this is a really bad idea.
04:09 Everything you do has consequences,
04:10 and I think Jake starts realizing more and more,
04:12 everything I've done has had these consequences.
04:15 In Jake, there was a sense of moth to the flame of violence
04:18 and a pull towards the darkness.
04:21 All through season two, we're telling a story
04:23 of a young person growing up and the sort of pain of growth,
04:27 the pain for our young Sato, our young Samantha, Jake.
04:30 This is the story of how hard it is to grow up.
04:33 Having responsibility changes things.
04:35 And looking at all of our principal characters
04:37 in season two, they are deeply changed.
04:40 They've all been through life-altering experiences,
04:43 and now it's a real big reset to send them off
04:46 on new adventures.
04:47 The new people that they've become
04:49 or the ways in which they've changed
04:51 is really the driving force behind the stories
04:54 that happen in season two.
04:56 Watch yourself.
04:56 Don't be stupid.
04:58 Don't be stupid.
04:59 (dramatic music)
05:01 I have to remember that.
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