A Japanese underworld thriller, “Tokyo Vice’s” sales will be launched at Berlin’s European Film Market. It is scheduled to go into production this summer on location in Japan.

Like so many films coming on to the market at Berlin, “Tokyo Vice” is true-event inspired, being based on “Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan,” a 2008 memoir by Jake Adelstein that covers his years as the first non-Japanese reporter at one of Japan’s largest newspapers, Yomiuri Shinbun, and his dealings the Japanese criminal syndicate Yakuza.