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May 19, 2021 · Sean used his dad's modified 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback to face off with Takashi on the winding mountain roads, besting his enemy after Takashi's pathetic attempts of pushing Sean's car off the road. With Sean's win, he became the new Drift King, while Takashi was left beaten and ashamed.
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Oct 26, 2023 · After a number of bit parts lasting from 2002 to 2005, Brian Tee broke through to mainstream success by appearing in "Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift" in 2006. The actor portrays Takashi,...
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Jaebeom Takata (Japanese: 高田 ゼボム, Takata Zebomu), known professionally as Brian Tee is a Japanese-American actor. He portrays Takashi in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
Tee was born in Okinawa, of Japanese and Korean descent. At the age of two, he moved to Hacienda Heights, California, and was raised there ever since. He attended Glen A. Wilson High School where he was Associated Student Body president and captain of the football team. While in high school, he worked at Blackjack Pizza.
He graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Theater/Performance Arts. In his spare time, he enjoys working out, playing sports, and practicing martial arts. He speaks fluent Korean, Japanese and English.
In addition to Tokyo Drift, Tee has also starred as Akira Kimura on Grimm and Takeda on Burn Notice. He also had a short part in Austin Powers Goldmember as a Japanese pedestrian. Brian can also be seen on an episode of Hollywood Squares presented by Tom Bergeron playing in 1999 against a woman named Heidi.
In James Mangold's The Wolverine, starring Hugh Jackman, Tee played Noburo Mori, the minister of justice arranged to marry the daughter of Yakuza Boss Shingen Yashida (Hiroyuki Sanada).
Tee took on the role of Liu Kang in the YouTube series Mortal Kombat Legacy.
In Jurassic World, Tee portrays the role of Katashi Hamada, a ranger who works for the Animal Control Unit (ACU).
He is known for playing Dr. Ethan Choi on the NBC medical drama Chicago Med and its spin-offs from 2015 to 2022, and has starred in such films as The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), The Wolverine (2013), Jurassic World (2015), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016).
Sean Boswell (Lucas Black) races against Takashi (Brian Tee) with the loser leaving Tokyo for good in the final race to 2006's The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift
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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift: Directed by Justin Lin. With Lucas Black, Damien Marzette, Trula M. Marcus, Zachery Ty Bryan. A teenager becomes a major competitor in the world of drift racing after moving in with his father in Tokyo to avoid a jail sentence in America.
Reeling from the death of Han (Sung Kang), Sean (Lucas Black) challenges Takashi (Brian Tee) to a drift, with the loser leaving Tokyo. #AllAction...
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