Chiaki Kuriyama

Chiaki Kuriyama began her career at the age of 11, already acting in movies and television shows in her native Japan. A recent high school graduate with only four feature films and a handful of TV appearances to her credit, at nineteen she is a full-fledged teen idol in Japan, with all that implies in terms of custom-produced record albums and coffee-table photo collections. Kill Bill producers discovered Chiaki when they saw her in the Japanese cult classic, Battle Royale. Chiaki Kuriyama plays Go Go Yubari, whose fight scene with Uma Thurman begins the climactic battle of Kill Bill: Volume 1. Her other feature film appearances include Toire no Hanako-san (1995), the popular horror thriller Shikoku (Dead Country, 1999), and the upcoming Kamen Gakuen (Persona). Her TV successes include the series Multiple Personality Detective Psycho (2000). Chiaki Kuriyama has studied classical ballet and gymnastics and cites Trainspotting and Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction as her favorite movies.