Chiaki Kuriyama

I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.

— Chiaki Kuriyama

I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.

— Chiaki Kuriyama

It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas…

— Chiaki Kuriyama

My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who…

— Chiaki Kuriyama

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have…

— Chiaki Kuriyama

I loved playing Go Go, because the character's so extreme. And she's pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that…

— Chiaki Kuriyama

We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on…

— Chiaki Kuriyama

Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and…

— Chiaki Kuriyama

Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although…

— Chiaki Kuriyama

Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie,…

— Chiaki Kuriyama

I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.

— Chiaki Kuriyama

Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one…

— Chiaki Kuriyama

Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I…

— Chiaki Kuriyama

Japan is very much a TV-centered entertainment industry. So, when you talk about big stars in Japan, generally they are people who…

— Chiaki Kuriyama

I've been playing these schoolgirl roles in all my movies. Every time I went to the set, it felt like I was…

— Chiaki Kuriyama

I think probably like seeing women fight because we're generally not thought to be strong, especially in the case of this movie.

— Chiaki Kuriyama

A movie of mine is going to be released in Japan next year. I play a waitress who's a really regular girl…

— Chiaki Kuriyama