Jai West

Jai Tatsuto West (ジェイ・ウエスト born October 24, 1976) is an actor, poet of French Canadian and Japanese descent born in Vancouver, British Columbia and currently based in Tokyo, Japan.He is best known for his work on screen as manic Japanese American gangster Lee in Sion Sonos Hazard (2005), a thief grappling with his sexual identity in Gen Sekiguchis Survive Style 5+ (2004), and portraying Beethoven in the popular Tokyo Gas commercials. He has appeared in numerous films and television series, from 21 Jump Street (1990) to Takashi Shimizus The Great Horror Family (2004) and Takashi Miikes Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006). West has released two spoken word poetry albums in Japanese and English under the pseudonym Lotus Chamelion.In 2018, he became the chairman of Iron Chef Canada.

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