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 generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think. — Chiaki Kuriyama Copy Share Image
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 television. I work mostly in movies. — 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 Image
I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really. — Chiaki Kuriyama Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
