Chiaki Kuriyama (Japan)

LOL! THAT WAS FUNNY! Good one Fumi!

Thanks, howard! I will tell you some serious opinion, too: I think Kuriyama did NOT go for date with this Chinese comedian or make sex with him, or if she went for date with him, this was for some management company reason with management company people present too of course. Otherwise, sorry, I cannot imagine such because he is creep and she is not!
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Fumiko

Hi,

I have seen the video up there and have seen her like I have not seen before. She looks happy on this video and amused to do all these talks on this show.

Hello Sakura,

I do agree with your comment, Chiaki seems really happy to contribute on this TV show, I can see when people are bored or enthousiast, even if we only have a short section of the show.

I'v forgot to say that yesterday I've just finished to overview an english sub file I've found for Sion Sono's Exte, featuring Chiaki.

tomorrow, I'll check the sync and arreange it if needed, packaged, another check to see if it's a cool package or garbage and this will be added to Chiaki's tribute in the middle of next week.

yes I know, I'm slow. but I always have what I want, it just takes some time for me.

We are very happy that you do these for us, best chemistry! We appreciate you very much!
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Fumiko

I agree with Fumi, we appreciate your efforts!

Chiaki did a Shiseido commercial with Orlando Bloom, which was shot like a short film. During a press conference, Chiaki ignored questions about her supposed relationship with Makoto. Her drama Ashita No, whatever its name was, has been a total flop and she is not even a major character in the drama, which may explain why she left early and unhappy from the Press conference on this TV drama in early January. I wanna preface that statement with, whatever her reason was, which I now see is becoming typical to simply make up some excuse other than delve into the truth. Whatever her reason was, she left visibly unhappy about WHATEVER went on, or was going down. Her movie KIDS has also quietly disappeared from all of the lack of info about it.

She still has a number of projects coming up, but so far this year has started the same way that last years attempted Chiaki-style/Tet Offensive, total failure. I will now briefly gloat at those who have since abandoned the Chiaki Kuriyama Fandom, who wanted to rant and rave about how vile, evil and crappy her life/career would have been had she actively pursued more Western/American/Hollywood, projects.

I personally suspect, with no concrete proof except for my track record to date on accurately predicting her career. I will now state that I think that this situation with Makoto may well become more and more of a necessity, since she was asked and ignored questions about her Makoto man, or lack of Makoto mojo. My point is that this situation is the only time that I have read any articles about her in Japan, where J-press has actually said or done something that even comes remotely close to talking about HER, instead of superficial stuff that can be safely posted and pasted to a wiki stub, or guessed at by the local Joe-on-the-street.

Recent pics posted to the Chiaki Kuriyama Fandom, make her look like a 30 year old woman, which is not good in any country when you're actually TWENTY-THREE! I've been checking to see when and if, someone would respond to a comment I left regarding that, and so far, no takers, which I cannot blame them or anybody else for. It is unfortunate to see such a rare talent being burned-up over lackluster TV's and movies, while her main opportunity for advancement actually lies beyond the shores of Japan. With that said, I only posted this because someone posted a comment in the Azumi 2 thread and it'd been so long since I looked at it, I forgot that I was watching that thread. So when I got the notice, I went on ahead and looked, then headed here.

Ironically I am also listening to Alice in Chains, Them Bones. Either way, Chiaki's career is steadly moving in the same predictable path as Kozue from Azumi 2's anti-climatic showdown with Azumi. After an initial introduction and poorly played attempts to convince the audience that she's a coward, Chiaki Kozue, then disappears from the movie for most of it, which mirrors her actual career at this point. Chiaki Kozue then reappears to commit some senseless murder, ignores heartfelt pleas from the murdered victim whom she had to sneak by the way, but then when she begins to hear those around her talk about how they are manipulated and controlled by others for no real purpose, she is clearly affected by this. But in proto-typical fashion, Chiaki Kozue is not called upon to really have any REAL MOMENTS of introspection, so that HER THOUGHTS, and her MOTIVATIONS, are delved into and explored. INSTEAD, when time could have been spent using her screen time to clarify, just who the hell she is. The audience is instead allowed to get to know Chiaki Kozue through translucent association! And yes I just used the word translucent, I threw in association because it fit.

Much like Chiaki's commercial with Orlando Bloom, her character does not speak, at all. So she is there, but she is NOT there. Much like something that is translucent, light passes through it, but it is not transparent, so we can see that the light is hitting something on the other side, but we have no idea what this glass is obscuring or hiding...

So Chiaki Kozue is given the translucent touch like many of Chiaki's characters. They don't define themselves, instead they define whomever the REAL STAR IS, of the movie. This is why some have stated that Chiaki would make a great supporting actress for her entire career, because they themselves know that she is simply their to reflect light onto whomever or whatever, is the real issue of importance in the movie, drama, commercial, whatever. Her appearance is more circumstance than necessity, and even in recent JAPANESE interviews, she is well aware of this, and the truth of how someone feels, eventually comes out.

Her performances are now lackluster gimmicks instead of powerful or impressionable shots in the arm of whatever she is involved in. And once this act becomes unprofitable, then she will experience what many an idol and entertainer has, unemployment and unfulfillment. Recent pics posted from the Bloom/Shiseido press conference, make her look old, tired, and haggard. Her eyes are puffy as if she just went ten rounds with Laila Ali. Her amount of make-up looks like someone just caked it up on her face till they were sure no place on her cheeks, chin and nose, didn't look greasy and oily. Since I've seen and been told repeatedly that over-application of make-up by Japanese women, are nothing new, then I guess I can give a mulligen and simply shrug it off. But the haggard look, isn't sexy anywhere on the planet. And then being made up to look at least 5-to-10 years older than she is, is also not helping.

If she looks 30 now, at 23, then what exactly will she look like when she is 30!?!? Please note the bizarre irony that this is a Press Conference for a major make-up company, but she looks like crap, which is just weird and distasteful. It is saddening to see someone being slowly marched, whether willingly or not, right to a cliff. Her initial episode in Tokyo Tanaka San Go, also had her looking old and haggard when she first appears on the overpass after the whole "blooming panties" shot. I don't know whose idea this has been to make her look like she's approaching 30, but this person needs to quit while they are behind. And as for the whole Chiaki Kozue example? It needs to be pointed out that Kozue in Azumi 2, is exactly like Azumi, but worse. She was intentionally put into a rival ninja clan to grow up among them, always knowing that her duty was/is, whenever she got the word, to turn around and kill and betray people that she had no choice to grow to love and care about.

Now I'd like you to think about what that would do to a person's psyche (emotional state, mind, body and soul) when they grow up knowing that they cannot actually carry feelings for these people, but they themselves, as the betrayer and potential murderer of some of them, cannot cease to be human themselves. And at no point was Azumi 2 even close to being that deep, but the question and reality is there, if a viewer wishes to explore it. It becomes crystal clear that Chiaki as an actress is aware of it, which is why Kozue starts weirding out when Azumi confronts her. Since it was left in the movie, as far as her mindless mantra about her mission and her bizarre mental breakdown, then the director left it there for a reason. But then that begs the question of why do we not learn anything of any importance about Chiaki's character, except how it supposedly mirrors Azumi?

Why don't we learn more about Chiaki's character? Much like Tengu Gaiden, much like this commercial with Orlando Bloom, and much like with Gogo in Kill Bill and her character in Tokyo Tanaka San Go, we don't actually learn anything that can't be guessed at or stumbled over by incidental-accident, because she doesn't actually matter. She is a plot-device, nothing more, and nothing less. And much like a machine, who or what makes the machine work, doesn't matter. It is the fact that the machine WORKS, when we flip the switch, is all that matters.....

I'm so glad she's getting lead roles. =] This should be interesting.

I have just finished Chapter 11, and I just now penned the first page of Chapter 12 which is entitled; The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is...

I believe that by mid-May of this year, Lady Yoma will be done, as far as handwritten, then I can type it all up. It has been a long journey, but this time since Lady Yoma is my creation and mine alone, they'll be nothing to stop me this time in publication. I've also been keeping an eye on Tarantino and his follow-up works for Kill Bill. I believe that if I can finish Lady Yoma and get it out onto the shelves by top of 2009, then, if it does well, then I will have a leg to stand on with Walking Dead and Phoenix Rising, especially since Tarantino is known for not really doubling back around to finished projects.

As for Lady Yoma, those whom I have let read as I write, have often stated that they would love to see the book character portrayed by Chiaki, especially since it presents more than just mere science fiction, but actual drama, with a lot of actual acting required for the emotional rollercoaster that Lady Yoma's life is. Someone has suggested that I use Youtube to try to start generating interest in the book, especially when I told them a conceptual idea I had for a promo for it.

I also finally got up the nerve to watch one of her commercials with Orlando Bloom after other Chiaki fans stated to me that I would really be pleased with it. They also stated that Bloom himself does not speak, but that Chiaki's portrayal in the long commercial actually validates and backs up what I have been saying from day one... I watched the commercial, and I was very proud of her, for what that's worth. She did a great job working with what she had...

Hello Prisoner,

I don't remember have seen Chiaki doing something approximative in commercial clips. she's always 100% on it, a sure value for this purpose. I've not seen this recent one, I can catch it and have a look.

a few times ago, we've been in contact with the owner of the Chiaki Shrine website, one of the most productive imagery bank dedicated for Chiaki online. that could be cool if he can come here and explain how he started his collection.

good look for your writing, you progress faster than me on my regular activities.

Thank you, Best Chemistry.

I have finally created a title for my book;

Lady Yoma, the Dark Door

I am currently on the final chapter, Chapter 13, which is aptly titled, The Dark Door. I have been writing non-stop since I was last here. I have also rejoined the celebrity catfight site that I used to write for. The owner and I have struck up an arrangement where he has decided to give me my own complete page where my stories and mine alone will be posted. I also have complete authority over the page and will manage it myself. He showed me his number of hits to his site and as I suspected, when I had stopped writing for his site at the top of this year, his number of hits nose dived dramatically.

A number of people have suggested that I change the names of the celebrity actresses from my old stories and create new names and remodel the stories and actually publish them as an actual book!

I have been milling this over and compiled my old stories from the close to two years time I was there, and already the compiled word doc's are over 300 PAGES! He still had stories that he had not even put up on the site before I left from there the beginning of this year. He stated that he had never seen someone write stories so fast in his ten years of owning his own on-again-off-again site, as well as participating in other's sites for celebrity catfight writing.

Why am I mentioning this on Chiaki's page, because she was a primary part of my stories along with Vivica Fox and Lucy Liu. I have been told repeatedly by many people who have read my stories that they have never seen anyone turn "celebrity catfighting" into something actually worth readin. The site owner actually became nervous a couple of times because the characters had very real conversations where some of the readers were asking him if I actually knew the actresses that I was/am writing about. I have stated on the Yahoo Group that is a supplement to the site, that I don't know anyone personally that I write about. I simply go based off of what I know as an outsider looking in and whatever THEY HAVE PUT OUT to the public.

Chiaki has/had become a major page on his site and many people pointed out as they read her stories, exactly what I have said to the point of nausea "Why hasn't she done more Western movies." Well, I simply MADE UP a scenario that is a central storyline for the Chiaki character on the site and people couldn't read them fast enough. They were especially interested in the thoughts that the Chiaki character kicked around in her head. When I had him take my stories down the Chiaki Kuriyama page had become very popular for his site, along with the other two characters of VLK. Which is probably what I intend to name the book, VLK, which stands for Vivica, Lucy and Kuriyama. My Chiaki stories were getting far more hits and attention than I realized, as after I had him remove them as well as all of my other work, I started coming across links on sites that were outside of Japan, but listed places to learn or read up on Chiaki.

I found a number of Western based sites that sold Chiaki DVD's as far as her movies, but also had my page from the catfight site listed, it was a very eye-opening experience. I keep forgetting that the internet is open to anyone from anywhere and one never knows who is reading or watching whatever you are putting up and posting. I was reluctant to re-post the stories because quite frankly they were brutally honest and I really couldn't care less what anyone thought of what I wrote AT THAT TIME. Hindsight being 20-20, I asked myself "What would SHE think if she read any of these?" I also asked myself the same question about all of the other actresses that I wrote for...

Why did I even bother to ask myself that question? Because I have been getting more and more feedback about my writing. And in all honesty I am looking to help, not hurt, simple as that. I've also had a few people from inside Japan confirm that I'm a little too close to the truth regarding the possibilities of future work outside of Japan on her part.

So, I re-posted the stories. If she looks upon me or them unkindly, then all I can do is take them down and apologize. If she goes off on some tirade though? I'd really be disappointed. Bad part is that the stories regardless of what series titles, are far more realistic than even I realized. I enjoy writing, so I don't dwell on anything else except what I am writing. I don't concern myself with anything except the matter of making the story as good as possible and making the characters ones that a reader can honestly say to themselves "Damn I hope she doesn't!?!? Oh snap, it's just a book! LOL! She's NOT REAL! LOL!"

The stories follow these characters in all aspects and are pretty realistic, when I stopped writing, Chiaki was trying to sort out her feelings about the fact that Lucy Liu was seriously trying date her. Something that many Lucy Liu fans had already thought she had attempted in real life. Indeed I do have an old interview where Lucy does make some interesting remarks and is very touchy-feely on Chiaki. From the fighting, to actual conversations and hopes and dreams. Discussions amongst the characters and yes I even delve into their sex life and their erotic fantasies and thoughts, someone once accused me of being a woman because a man just wouldn't be able to describe what I had written. I will say that even in writing those stories I got a lot of feedback that highlighted some of the reasons why American relationships are so shitty right now. A few people swore I was some sort of thearapist simply passing my time "playing around" on a catfighting site.

Regardless, it generated a ton of hits for Stone Rage (the site owner) and was a primary reason why he would not tell me how many hits his site was getting out of fear of me "doing something" or "demanding something"? The site isn't a pay site, and he couldn't charge people to pay anyway since the people we all write about are REAL ACTRESSES, so I had no idea what was going through his head. I guess his main fear was that I had inadvertently commandeered his site. People only came there to read my stories, for the most part. He also started getting requests for fans of other female celebrities that I didn't write for, for me to START writing stories FOR THEM. It's been a strange few months...

What is my point? I have found out over the last few months that I had generated a lot of interest in Chiaki from stories that I wrote where I was simply living in the moment of a concept and writing it out. I have also found that things that I have posted on the Chiaki Kuriyama Fandom Forum, have brought people to the site to read my opinions about her and her career as I watch from the outside looking in. A few people have joined and made literally, one or two posts, solely to say that they had been lurking for years and reading my posts and now here it is years later and what I said back then, is exactly what is now happening in her career. It is something that is a bit surprising to me, and also something that I know I MOST CERTAINLY CANNOT take more seriously than it is.

It is nothing more than my own imagination at work, with a concept, an idea, and then an actual muse to draw from. And I will say this much, I have been told that because she has no real stream of non-Japanese work, those who have taken a genuine interest are quickly turned off by the quality of what she is generally involved in, in Japan, which does actually make me feel bad... to a point. I have found that what I am writing is not simply spinning off into the abyss of the internet, but it is actually being read and enjoyed, for what it is... my opinion. Lady Yoma will be finished within a few weeks, then I will type it all up AND THIS TIME, since this is my idea, my writings. It will most definitely get published. And I'll also add before I get up out of here, that this is the process on how things are done on the OTHER SIDE OF THE CAMERA. This is how the journey starts for people like Sion Sono, Quentin Tarantino, JK Rowlings, Spike Lee, John Grisham, Maya Angelou, etc!

They all started out scribbling down ideas and then as they take shape, they start envisioning WHO THEY WOULD CAST, to bring their idea to life. Of course if they QUIT, of course if they GIVE UP! Then all they are doing is pipedreaming. But those who keep trudging ahead ultimately find out if they have what it takes to create the source material that all of these actresses and idols get scripts and work from. Someone, SOMEWHERE, had to CREATE an idea, a screenwrite, a novel, a play. For them to bring to life. I hope you have all been doing well, talk to you again soon...
Later!

Supposedly Chiaki is being credited on IMDB for being in Tekken which will be released in 2009. This would be her first Western work since Into the Sun with Steven Segal. However, no one has been able to confirm anything and quite frankly I would rather she was in on something that wasn't as thrown together as this thing has been.

Hello Geesehoward,

I hope this will be a better role this time. her kameo contribution in Into the sun was a plain insult to her acting capacities.

Hello Best Chemistry!

First and foremost, Chiaki will doing doing a play throughout the month of July in Tokyo, Japan. She will be playing the role of a baldheaded young male monk. She should also have the movie GS Wonderland coming out.

Third, I have finished writing two Lady Yoma books;

Lady Yoma, the Whithering Affect
and
Lady Yoma, the Dark Door

I finished writing the last word on June 15th and now I intend to start typing them up at the beginning of July. So, this time, when I am done? I will actually shop these books to a literary agent and seek publication!

I have also returned back to Stone Rage's Celebrity Catfight site! During my time there, I had him put up a Chiaki Kuriyama page and it got a lot of hits for the stories I wrote there. I have decided to start writing for Stone Rage again after he had become so desperate to return his site to the number of hits it used to get before I left. That he tried to repost my old stories without permission and fans of my writing from his site, immediately contacted me to let me know.

We worked out an agreement where he has given me my very own page to write stories for his site. He also stated that the old Chiaki page gets over 1000 more hits than his current Lucy Liu page, even though all of Chiaki's stories were mostly my old ones. He himself, doesn't know what to do with her. So he only had one story that he only recently put up! But other than that, her page was blank after I left, but it still stayed ahead of Lucy Liu's page, even though she had stories from other writers.

Okay, that's it, see ya!

Hello Geesehoward,

if we leave time for time, things are likely to happen. I've just found a short clip from the Making of Azumi II. the whole clip is dedicated to Aya Ueto but there are some sceneries with Chiaki. here are some snapshots :

a package of this video is in the tiddlywink section.