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Jai West

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Sweetpea (Dree Hemingway) flies to Japan to break up with her rock star boyfriend. When she arrives, her boyfriend has disappeared, last seen shooting a music video with a 90's sex symbol (Pamela Anderson) in a Japanese forest that harbors a dark secret. Sweetpea sets out to solve the mystery of Jamie's disappearance, not knowing that the forest is most famous as a destination for suicide.
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The People Garden (2016)
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Jai West was born Jai Tatsuto West in Vancouver, British Columbia to a Japanese mother and French father and began his acting career in his teens as a series regular on the popular kid's show 'Kidzone' and many roles on TV and film in the US and Canada including guest appearances in 'The Surrogate', 'Once in a Blue Moon', 'Highlander', 'The Odyssey' and '21 Jump Street'. In Japan he has starred in such high-grossing feature films 'Worst Contact', 'Bus Panic' and 'Private Detective Mike' as well as appearing in several high profile TV commercials. In 2004, Jai took on a key role in the Japanese box office hit 'Survive Style 5+' the directorial debut of stellar advertising industry creative duo Tada Taku and Sekiguchi Gen. Jai has also received praise for the poetry he creates under the pseudonym 'Lotus Chamelion'. He's a bi-cultural artist that possesses a distinguished energetic presence and chameleon-like versatility, able to uniquely portray comedic and serious characters.
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    Peter Mensah, Úrsula Corberó, Haruka Abe, Samara Weaving, Takehiro Hira, Iko Uwais, Andrew Koji, and Henry Golding in Snake Eyes (2021)
    Snake Eyes
    5.4
    • Additional Crew
    • 2021
    Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart in Equals (2015)
    Equals
    6.0
    • SOS Patient
    • 2015
    Hikari Mitsushima, Takahiro Nishijima, and Sakura Andô in Love Exposure (2008)
    Love Exposure
    8.0
    • Bosozoku Rîdâ(as Jei Uesuto)
    • 2008
    Survive Style 5+ (2004)
    Survive Style 5+
    7.4
    • J - Burglar
    • 2004

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    Actor



    • Kamen Rider Zero-One Others: Kamen Rider Metsuboujinrai (2021)
      Kamen Rider Zero-One Others: Kamen Rider Metsuboujinrai
      7.3
      • Lyon Arkland
      • Kamen Rider Zaia
      • 2021
    • Nicolas Cage in Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021)
      Prisoners of the Ghostland
      4.2
      • Jay
      • 2021
    • Sayo (2020)
      Sayo
      6.0
      • The Driver
      • 2020
    • Dingdong Dantes and Anne Curtis in Sid & Aya: Not a Love Story (2018)
      Sid & Aya: Not a Love Story
      6.8
      • Club Customer
      • 2018
    • Jai West and Xinti Wu in My little guidebook ICE (2017)
      My little guidebook ICE
      Short
      • Luke Gardner
      • 2017
    • El Diablo (2016)
      El Diablo
      Short
      • Foreigner
      • 2016
    • Pamela Anderson in The People Garden (2016)
      The People Garden
      5.3
      • Mak (as Jai Tatsuto West)
      • 2016
    • Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart in Equals (2015)
      Equals
      6.0
      • SOS Patient
      • 2015
    • Pancakes (2014)
      Pancakes
      • Billy
      • 2014
    • Seen
      • J.J. Beatbox
      • 2011
    • King Game (2010)
      King Game
      5.3
      • Johnny B
      • 2010
    • Hikari Mitsushima, Takahiro Nishijima, and Sakura Andô in Love Exposure (2008)
      Love Exposure
      8.0
      • Bosozoku Rîdâ (as Jei Uesuto)
      • 2008
    • Ojiisan sensei (2007)
      Ojiisan sensei
      TV Series
      • 2007
    • Tengu gaiden (2007)
      Tengu gaiden
      Short
      • Louis
      • 2007
    • Sayuri Oyamada in Tokyo no uso (2007)
      Tokyo no uso
      5.8
      • Tamura
      • 2007

    Writer



    • The Lost Samurai (2004)
      The Lost Samurai
      7.5
      Short
      • Writer
      • 2004

    Producer



    • The Lost Samurai (2004)
      The Lost Samurai
      7.5
      Short
      • co-producer
      • 2004

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      • Jei Uesuto
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      • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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