Biography
Jai West (ジェイ・ウェスト; born October 24, 1976) is an actor and 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 Sono's Hazard (2005), a thief grappling with his sexual identity in Gen Sekiguchi's 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 Shimizu's The Great Horror Family (2004) and Takashi Miike's 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.
Filmography
all 24
Movies 18
TV Shows 6
Sayo (2020)
Iron Chef Canada (2018)
Pancakes (2014)
KING GAME (2010)
Love Exposure (2009)
Tokyo-Uso (2007)
Cherry Girl (2006)
Honey and Clover (2006)
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006)
The Great Horror Family (2004)
Survive Style 5+ (2004)
The Private Detective Mike (2002)
Bus Panic!!! (2001)
Smap Short Films (2001)
The Odyssey (1992)
21 Jump Street (1987)
Harbour
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1976-10-24 (48 years old)
Birth NameJai Tatsuto West
CitizenshipsCanada
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