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 deci…

- 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 are on television.…

- Chiaki Kuriyama

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

- 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 going to school.

- 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 maybe something t…

- Chiaki Kuriyama

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

- Chiaki Kuriyama

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, encou…

- 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 a great sense of really wanti…

- 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