Jai West
Jai Tatsuto West 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 Sono's Hazard, a thief grappling with his sexual identity in Gen Sekiguchi's Survive Style 5+, and portraying Beethoven in the popular Tokyo Gas commercials. He has appeared in numerous films and television series, from 21 Jump Street to Takashi Shimizu's The Great Horror Family and Takashi Miike's Big Bang Love, Juvenile A. 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.Career
In 2016, West starred alongside Pamela Anderson and Dree Hemingway in the Canadian-Japanese drama The People Garden. He played a mysterious driver and worker.
In 2018, West was announced as the Iron Chef Canada chairman, which premiered on October 17 on Food Network.Filmography
