Tarantino and I seem to have the same taste in Asian cinema...my movie nerd friends and I love playing "spot the reference" in his movies, especially the Kill Bill movies. I like how he writes parts for specific actors and actually manages to land those actors for their parts.
It was great seeing Chiaki Kuriyama on the big screen again (I loved her character in Battle Royale and even though her scenes were brief, felt she did a great job as GoGo Yaburi). She's also in the new Steven Seagal movie, Into The Sun, that's going strauight to DVD on Tuesday.
Too bad Sho Shibasaki was unable to open her schedule to play Yuka Yaburi, a character that ended up not getting into the movie when she couldn't play the role.
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