The Hollywood Reporter ran an article about it: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/tokyo-vice-problematic-source-material-1235135828/ http

The Hollywood Reporter ran an article about it: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/tokyo-vice-problematic-source-material-1235135828/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/toky... Though he's disputed it. His problems with National Geographic are telling... the same year he's unable to produce any connections for their show, he's got close enough connections to "high-ranking gangster bosses" to write an article where he purportedly has them play and discuss the video game Yakuza 3: https://web.archive.org/web/20110214054056/https://boingboing.net/2010/08/10/yakuza-3-review.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110214054056/https://boingboin... (side note: this article describes him playing this game with these guys "one Thursday afternoon," having a teenager teach them to play a video game, having three separate people play this single-player game while discussing it, one of whom finishes it despite an average main story playtime of over 16 hours)