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Chiaki Kuriyama (栗山 千明, Kuriyama Chiaki, born October 10, 1984) is a Japanese actress, singer, and model. She is best known in the West for her roles as Takako Chigusa in Kinji Fukasaku's 2000 film Battle Royale and Gogo Yubari in Quentin Tarantino's 2003 film Kill Bill: Volume 1.
Tatsuya Fujiwara (藤原 竜也, Fujiwara Tatsuya, born May 15, 1982) is a Japanese actor. Internationally, he is best known for his leading roles as Shuya Nanahara in the Battle Royale films, Light Yagami in the Death Note films, Kaiji Itō in the Kaiji films, and Rikuhiko Yuki in Hideo Nakata's The Incite Mill.
Battle Royale was released on December 16, 2000, in Japan. [6] [7] Over the next two years, Battle Royale was distributed to cinemas in 22 countries, [8] across Asia, Australia, Europe, and South America (in addition to Mexico), gaining early cult film followings in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, and the Philippines.
Boy #1 in Battle Royale II, Takuma Aoi (青井 拓馬, Aoi Takuma) (nicknamed Taku (タク)) is a delinquent from Shikanotoride Middle School. He, along with his entire class, gets chosen to participate in the revised Battle Royale system, wherein a class would have to charge into a terrorist base under orders to kill the leader of said terrorists.
Actors’ Real Names 21. Vin Diesel/Mark Sinclair. ... While the Scottish DJ uses his stage name when he’s spinning records, he prefers that friends and family use his real name in real life.
Ko (also transcribed Kou and Koh) Shibasaki debuted in 2000, when she portrayed Mitsuko Souma in Battle Royale. Shibasaki also won critical acclaim for her role as Tsubaki Sakurai in the 2001 film Go, which earned her several awards, including the Best Supporting Actress Award of Japanese Academy, the Hōchi Movie Award, and the Kinema Junpō ...
Actors often transform into real-life musicians for biopics. Some actors go through physical transformations to play musicians. Many, like Timothée Chalamet and Angelina Jolie, employ vocal ...
His break-out performance was in the controversial movie Battle Royale, in which he played the pacifistic Hiroki Sugimura (Boy #11). Takaoka then moved from muted heroics to active anti-heroism in portrayals of the grittier side of teenage violence, such as in Concrete.