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Ansel Elgort as Jake Adelstein, an American journalist from Missouri who moves to Tokyo. The longer he stays, the more he delves into the corruption of Tokyo's seedy underworld, where no one is as they seem.

Ken Watanabe as Hiroto Katagiri, a detective in the organized crime division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. He acts as a father figure to Adelstein and helps guide him through the thin and often precarious line between the law and organized crime.

Rachel Keller as Samantha Porter, an American expatriate living in Tokyo and former Mormon who makes her living as a hostess in the Onyx Club of the Kabukicho district, and later starts her own club. Her clients vary from salarymen to high-end clients and yakuza.

Hideaki Itō as Jin Miyamoto (season 1; guest season 2), a vice squad detective who is Jake's first contact in the Tokyo police but who is secretly working with the yakuza.

Show Kasamatsu as Akiro Sato, an enforcer in the Chihara-kai yakuza clan who collects protection money and is Samantha's handler at the Onyx Club. He secretly has a crush on her and is disillusioned by the yakuza lifestyle which he sees as anachronistic.

Ella Rumpf as Polina (season 1; guest season 2), an Eastern European migrant, and a spendthrift hostess at the Onyx Club with Samantha. A kind-hearted but naive young woman, she came to Tokyo to work as a model but was pulled into the seedy underbelly of Kabukicho.

Rinko Kikuchi as Emi Maruyama, Adelstein's supervisor and a senior journalist for the Meicho Shimbun newspaper. Maruyama is a composite of the various colleagues and supervisors who worked with the real-life Adelstein during his career.

Tomohisa Yamashita as Akira, Polina's boyfriend who works at a host club.

Miki Maya as Shoko Nagata (season 2), a detective from the National Police Agency assigned to Tokyo, who seeks to create a new task force to eradicate organized crime in the city permanently.

Yōsuke Kubozuka as Naoki Hayama (season 2), a high-ranking yakuza in the Chihara-kai, who is newly released from a 7-year imprisonment and is appointed as Ishida's second-in-command.

Recurring

Shun Sugata as Hitoshi Ishida, the leader of the Chihara-kai yakuza clan

Takaki Uda as Jun "Trendy" Shinohara, Jake's handsome friend and co-worker

Kosuke Tanaka as Makoto "Tintin" Kurihira, Jake's witty friend and co-worker

Masato Hagiwara as Duke (season 1), the owner of the Onyx hostess club

Kōsuke Toyohara as Baku, Jake's by-the-books, racist nationalist boss

Masayoshi Haneda as Yoshihiro Kume (season 1; guest season 2), Sato's direct superior within the Chihara-kai who is later revealed to be a mole working for the Tozawa organization

Eugene Nomura as Kobayashi (season 1; guest season 2), Ishida's right-hand man and a high-ranking member of the Chihara-kai

Kazuya Tanabe as Masamune Yabuki, the second-in-command of the Tozawa yakuza clan

Nobushige Suematsu as Gen, a member of the Chihara-kai who has an internal conflict with Sato

Koshi Uehara as Taro, a high-ranking member of the Chihara-kai

Noémie Nakai as Luna (season 1; guest season 2), the most prestigious hostess at the Onyx club

Rosaria Mokkhavesa as Malee (season 1), the most esteemed hostess at Onyx

Ayumi Tanida as Shinzo Tozawa, the leader of the Tozawa yakuza clan, a rival organization to the Chihara-kai, who is trying to establish himself in Tokyo while suffering from an incurable health condition

Yuka Itaya as Junko Katagiri, Hiroto's wife

Chisato Yamasaki as Natsumi Katagiri, Hiroto's elder daughter

Kaho Yamasaki as Shino Katagiri, Hiroto's younger daughter

Motoki Kobayashi as Haruki Ukai (season 1; guest season 2), a writer and meth user who publishes articles about the Tozawa organization, with their approval

Jundai Yamada as Matsuo (season 1), a cultured man who becomes one of Samantha's clients and later reveals that he was hired to track her down

Ayumi Ito as Misaki Taniguchi, Shinzo Tozawa's mistress and a former model

Bokuzō Masana as Ozaki (season 2; guest season 1), Baku's supervisor and an executive at Meicho

Keita as Kei Maruyama (season 2; guest season 1), Emi's mentally unstable brother who suffers from severe anxiety

Makiko Watanabe as Kazuko Tozawa (season 2; guest season 1), Shinzo Tozawa's wife

Yohei Matsukado as Hagino (season 2; guest season 1), a high-ranking member of the Tozawa organization and a confidant to Kazuko and Misaki

Masaki Miura as Funaki (season 2; guest season 1), a senior detective and Katagiri's friend

Atomu Mizuishi as Kaito Sato (season 2; guest season 1), Sato's eager younger brother, who seeks to reconnect, despite their parents' qualms

Syû Sekimoto as Etsuo (season 2), a low-ranking member of the Chihara-kai

Takayuki Suzuki as Masahiro Ohno (season 2), a wealthy architect and one of Samantha's best customers at her new hostess club

Hyunri Lee as Erika (season 2), the retired former owner of Club Destiny, where Samantha first worked as a hostess, who goes into business with Samantha

Ukyo Nakamura as Daichi (season 2), Erika's son

Soji Arai as Shingo Murata (season 2), Emi's lover and an editor for the Tokyo Weekly newspaper

Yoshinori Miyata as Kenji (season 2), the barman at Samantha's club

Aoi Takeya as Jason Aoki (season 2), a Japanese-American working at the U.S. embassy and Trendy's lover

Guest

Jessica Hecht as Willa Adelstein, Jake's mother

Sarah Sawyer as Jessica Adelstein, Jake's sister who sends him audio letters on tapes and has been in mental health treatment

Hiroshi Sogabe as Sugita (season 1), the head of the Suzuno insurance company, which manipulates people into debt with the Tozawa organization

Nanami Kawakami as Yuka (season 1), a young woman Jake hooks up with while hanging out with Sato, later revealed to be a prostitute

Fumiya Kimura as Koji (season 1), Sato's first recruit within the Chihara-kai

Renji Ishibashi as Noboru Nakahara, the chairman of the Tozawa organization, and Kazuko's uncle-in-law

Toru Shinagawa as Koichi Tanaka, an elderly yakuza sōsai

Sotaro Tanaka as Dr. Shimizu, an underground doctor, who treats members of the Chihara-kai

Miyuki Matsuda as Inaba, the owner of a host club who pays protection money to the Tozawa organization

Hajime Inoue as Jotaro Shigematsu, the Minister of Transport, who gets blackmailed by the Tozawa organization

Kojun Notsu as Ide, a police captain and Katagiri's supervisor

Akiko Iwase as Rie Sato, Sato's mother

Danny Burstein as Eddie Adelstein, Jake's father

Nadia Parkes as Claudine (season 2), a classy, but brazen British hostess and Samantha's biggest earner

On Nakano as Tats (season 2), the leader of a Bōsōzoku biker gang, whom Jake investigates after a series of motorcycle thefts

Hinata Arakawa as Chika (season 2), Tats' younger sister and member of his gang

Geraldine Hughes as Lynn Oberfield (season 2), an FBI agent working with the U.S. Foreign Service at the U.S. embassy in Tokyo

Kouichirou Kanzaki as Hishinuma (season 2), the elderly leader of the Hishinuma-kai yakuza clan

Takao Kin as Ota (season 2), a former member of the Chihara-kai, who was exiled to Nagano

Shoken Kunimoto as Ichikawa (season 2), Hishinuma's lawyer

Yayoi Sanmi as Sakura Igarashi (season 2), Tozawa's new, younger lover

Yuta Koga as Shinjiro (season 2), a former member of the Hishinuma-kai, who is hired by Tozawa for an assassination

Vincent Gale as Dean Kudisch (season 2), the senior editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in America

Marcel Jeannin as Dr. Edward Walker (season 2), the chief of organ transplantation at the Southern Minnesota Metropolitan General Hospital, where he secretly treated Tozawa

Shoken Kunimoto as Ichikawa (season 2), the leader of the Ichikawa-gumi, a yakuza organization

Kako Kariya as Yayoi Taniguchi (season 2), Misaki's mother

Koshiro Asami as Noguchi (season 2), the CEO of Suzaku Financial and an associate of Tozawa's