Canadian Actor/Stripper Arrested For Marijuana Possession
A Canadian actor named Troy Caspi has been arrested in Japan after police found marijuana in his apartment. Although he only played minor roles in television shows, the story has received some national news attention because he starred in a drama for N-H-K, the public network that strives to maintain a cleaner image than the private Japanese TV channels:
A Canadian actor who appeared in an episode aired last Sunday of Japanese public broadcaster N-H-K’s popular period drama “Ryomaden” was arrested in September for allegedly possessing marijuana at his apartment in Japan, N-H-K and other sources said Wednesday.
The 37-year-old actor, identified by Japanese police as Caspi Troy Alexander, appeared as a supporting cast member by playing a British sailor killed by a samurai warrior with a sword strike in Nagasaki, according to N-H-K, officially known as Japan Broadcasting Corp.
N-H-K said it learned of his arrest and indictment after receiving an e-mail message from a viewer following the episode’s broadcast. The broadcaster will delete his name from the closing credits of the drama when it reruns the episode on Saturday.
A quick Google search found his blog and Myspace pages, which seem to show that he’s landed plenty of roles in Japan as an extra or generic tough-looking white dude. According to his blog, he first came to Japan to work as a male stripper.
Here are two YouTube videos featuring Caspi. The first is him in a short film called “The Wrong Way”:
The second is a behind-the-scenes clip from the same film:
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