10 Quentin Tarantino Characters Who Deserve Their Own Movie
6. Gogo Yubari (Chiaki Kuriyama) - Kill Bill Vol I
She dresses like a Japanese schoolgirl, looks barely old enough to drive and her name derives from Mach GoGoGo (Speed Racer), but you underestimate the bodyguard of O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) at your peril. When a businessman attempts to pick her up in a bar, Gogo stabs him with a samurai sword and says, Do you still wish to penetrate me? Or is it I who has penetrated you? But her biggest moment comes in her showdown with The Bride, where her love of weaponry becomes apparent. Armed with nothing less than a meteor hammer, she takes a characteristically sadistic delight in attempting to strangle her nemesis with the chain, only for her efforts to be curtailed by a nail to the brain. Incidentally, if the character looks familiar, thats because Tarantino based Chiaki Kuriyamas part on her role in Battle Royale.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
