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.
Certainly during the training period, we had lots of downtime and in those moments, Quentin would show us snips of different movies and anime films which I'm not able to remember because we never saw the whole thing.
Certainly my right arm has bulked up a certain amount compared to how it was before.
Generally, I'd just go for walks and things like that. But I went with Quentin to Disneyland. That was the one trip I remember.
I can't imagine I'm going to get many opportunities in my life to do this, so yes, I'm pretty excited about it.
I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.
I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.
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.
I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.
I think probably like seeing women fight because we're generally not thought to be strong, especially in the case of this movie.
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.
I'd done a certain amount of physical training before, a small amount, for Battle Royale, but not to that extent at all.
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.
I've only been to America twice actually. The three months training period last year before the movie, and this present trip for the premiere.
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.
It's my first time doing an interview in America certainly, but I've done a certain amount of press activity in Japan.
Japan is very much a TV-centred entertainment industry. So when you talk about big stars in Japan, generally they are people who are on television. I work mostly in movies.
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.
Kill Bill is an extremely dramatic script, really exciting and really exciting to think that I might be a part of.
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.
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.
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.
The setup was the camera was behind me and the action was for me to turn around quickly and wield my mace, my ball and chain, towards the camera. Quentin was just outside of the lens and I clobbered him.
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.
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.
Well, the reason that I was in Kill Bill was because of my performance in Battle Royale, so I'd love people to see that movie.
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 was the same age as her character Gogo Yubari from Kill Bill during the shooting of the film; she was 17.
Chiaki would call herself Chaki when she was younger.
Chiaki had her 19th birthday on the same day her film Kill Bill opened in theatres.
Began her career in the mid-90's during the child model boom in Japan.
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