Shôw Kasamatsu, Japanese actor and full-time cat lover, thinks his beloved Tokyo Vice character, Sato, would own a Bengal cat if he could. Like a leopard-printed Bengal, Sato’s appearance is somewhat wild, with his intricately patterned skin of blood red florals. Underneath a chilling appearance, however, is a gentle nature that is loving and loyal- a depiction that describes Sato well. HBO Max’s Tokyo Vice is set in 1990s Tokyo and tells the true story of the declining power of the Yakuza, as Yomiuri Shimbun’s first non-Japanese journalist Jake Adelstein [Ansel Elgort], uncovers the city’s crime scene. Fans of the series love Sato, despite his affiliation with the Yakuza, for his anti-hero qualities that portray him with sympathetic humanity. Kasamatsu pours his own doubts and anxieties into Sato along with a touch of his own innate nurturing qualities to create a complex portrait of a man, like he does in his “ANOMALY” artwork, but through his acting  than his pen. In our interview with him, Kasamatsu details how he and Sato are one and the same, imagines who he would be if her were not an actor, and tells us the secret we all need to hide from HBO Max!