{"id":225,"date":"2020-11-06T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.locationbox.metro.tokyo.lg.jp\/english\/topics\/754\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:03:01","slug":"754","status":"publish","type":"topics","link":"https:\/\/www.locationbox.metro.tokyo.lg.jp\/english\/topics\/754\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTOKYO VICE\u201d Director Michael Mann pays a courtesy call on Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>American TV drama \u201cTOKYO VICE\u201d is scheduled to be filmed in Tokyo<\/h2>\n<p>Mr. Michael Mann, a director of notable movies such as \u201cThe Insider,\u201d \u201cCollateral,\u201d and \u201cHeat,\u201d paid a courtesy call on Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike on November 12th, 2020, just before the start of the filming of \u201cTOKYO VICE\u201d.\u00a0(*Japanese title not yet determined)<\/p>\n<p>Director Mann told Governor Koike that he is extremely happy to have an opportunity to film in the world\u2019s most exciting city of Tokyo, and expressed his strong motivation that he is firmly committed to shooting in the area of Tokyo while many other foreign productions tend to shoot outside Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Koike welcomed Director Mann and his crews and responded that Tokyo is a city with a mixture of an \u201cold\u201d and \u201cnew\u201d culture that attracts people in various ways, and Tokyo Metropolitan Government is pleased to provide all kinds of assistance to ensure successful filming.<\/p>\n<h2>About \u201cTOKYO VICE\u201d<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>An 8-episode long TV series with a budget of about $80 million (Approx. 8.8 billion Japanese yen)<\/li>\n<li>To be aired in HBO MAX in the U.S. by the end of 2021<\/li>\n<li>The leading actor will be an up-and-coming Hollywood star Ansel Elgort, and Ken Watanabe and Rinko Kikuchi are casting from Japan<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTOKYO VICE\u201d will start its\u2019 shooting from the end of November 2020 in cities including Shinjuku, Shibuya, and Roppongi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This production is supported by Tokyo Location Box (TLB) for shootings in Tokyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226,"template":"","topics_cat":[6],"class_list":["post-225","topics","type-topics","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","topics_cat-info"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locationbox.metro.tokyo.lg.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locationbox.metro.tokyo.lg.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locationbox.metro.tokyo.lg.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topics"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locationbox.metro.tokyo.lg.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.locationbox.metro.tokyo.lg.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/www.locationbox.metro.tokyo.lg.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/225\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locationbox.metro.tokyo.lg.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locationbox.metro.tokyo.lg.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topics_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locationbox.metro.tokyo.lg.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics_cat?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}