Chiaki Kuriyama Professions : Actress Born : October 10, 1984 Browse All Authors Top 17 quotes by 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 are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think. Chiaki Kuriyama fighting strong character 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 sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning. Chiaki Kuriyama japan america thinking I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really. Chiaki Kuriyama fascination i-can thinking Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood. Chiaki Kuriyama details tears blood 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 to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training. Chiaki Kuriyama training differences games A movie of mine is going to be released in Japan next year. I play a waitress who's a really regular girl in this movie. The English title isn't decided yet, but in Japanese it's I'll Get on the A Train Sometime. Chiaki Kuriyama japan girl years 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 finishing play appreciation I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that. Chiaki Kuriyama jackie enjoy looks Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together. Chiaki Kuriyama height kind together 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 japan stars people 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 school. Chiaki Kuriyama felt roles school 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 strong-women fighting thinking I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain. Chiaki Kuriyama chains balls ties Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad. Chiaki Kuriyama present problems bad attention 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 her sword with a lot of accessories. Chiaki Kuriyama sword loved go character It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script. Chiaki Kuriyama pretty some way ideas We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires. Chiaki Kuriyama got working basics weapons Similar Authors Beatrice Lillie actress Adepero Oduye actress Adrienne Barbeau actress Bindu actress Alexandra Breckenridge actress Bojana Novakovic actress All Authors
