Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out. — Chiaki Kuriyama Copy Share Image
I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that. — Chiaki Kuriyama Copy Share
I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really. — Chiaki Kuriyama Copy Share
It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I… — Chiaki Kuriyama Copy Share
My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not… — Chiaki Kuriyama Copy Share
I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great… — Chiaki Kuriyama Copy Share
I loved playing Go Go, because the character's so extreme. And she's pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that she liked… — Chiaki Kuriyama Copy Share
We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working… — Chiaki Kuriyama Copy Share
Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were… — Chiaki Kuriyama Copy Share
Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something… — Chiaki Kuriyama Copy Share
Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really… — Chiaki Kuriyama Copy Share
Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change… — Chiaki Kuriyama Copy Share
Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather… — Chiaki Kuriyama Copy Share
Japan is very much a TV-centered entertainment industry. So, when you talk about big stars in Japan, generally they are people who are on… — Chiaki Kuriyama Copy Share
I've been playing these schoolgirl roles in all my movies. Every time I went to the set, it felt like I was going to… — Chiaki Kuriyama Copy Share
