Chiaki was a successful child model who began acting in films and on television at age 11. A recent high school graduate with only four feature films and a handful of TV appearances to her credit, at 19 she was a full-fledged teen idol in Japan, with all that implies in terms of custom-produced record albums and coffee-table photo collections.
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| Chiaki Kuriyama |
Following her feature debut in the 1995 thriller School Mystery, Kuriyama sent chills down audience's spines with her role as a Ringu-inspired ghost in the popular 1999 horror film Shikoku
The subsequent Battle Royale found her propelled to superstardom in her native Japan.
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| Uma Thurman in Kill Bill Volume 1 |
It was only a matter of time before Kuriyama's popularity outgrew the boundaries of Japan, and after seeing her impressive performance in Battle Royale, American director Quentin Tarantino immediately cast her as the lethal Go Go Yubari, bodyguard of mob mistress O-Ren Ishii, played by Lucy Liu in his grindhouse revenge epic Kill Bill. Chiaki "Go Go ball"-wielding baddie made quite an impression on international audiences.
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| Lucy Liu |
Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003) action thriller film by Quentin Tarantino, Starring Uma Thurman. The film is an epic-length revenge drama, with homages to earlier film genres such as Hong Kong martial arts films, Japanese chanbara films, exploitation films and spaghetti westerns.
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