The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series)
The Last Kamikaze (1975)
John Fujioka: Kuroda
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Quotes
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Kuroda : You, fly through space to the moon, hmm?
Col. Steve Austin : Yes.
Kuroda : And you walk on moon?
Col. Steve Austin : Look, I know it's a little hard for you to believe...
Kuroda : You biggest liar on earth, that's what I believe.
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Kuroda : [hopeful glint in his eye] You kill me?
Col. Steve Austin : No, I won't kill ya. We're both gonna get out of this alive. If I have to tie you up and carry you out an inch at a time. But I won't kill ya.
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Kuroda : What kind of a devil are you?
Col. Steve Austin : I'm a man, just like you. You've seen me bleed, the same way.
Col. Steve Austin : [indicating Austin's bionic leg] There's no blood in that leg.
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Kuroda : I cannot go back.
Col. Steve Austin : Why not?
Kuroda : You must understand. When I left Japan, they clipped my hair and nails for my funeral. I was dead to the war. I cannot out-live it. There is great shame for me.
Col. Steve Austin : What is the shame?
Kuroda : You are not Japanese, you do not understand.
Col. Steve Austin : After the war there were many men thought dead came back to their families. There was no shame, only tears... tears of joy.
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Kuroda : A man who has died in his heart does not run away from real death. That is the way of the bushido.
Col. Steve Austin : The bushido tells a man that he must show mercy, doesn't it? That includes compassion for one self.
Kuroda : Too late. Kamikaze meant 'devine wind'. I am like the last wind of the day. The midnight wind.
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Col. Steve Austin : You're going home.
Kuroda : [his face lightens] Home? My mother... my brother... if they still live, how will they greet me?
Col. Steve Austin : You'll soon see.
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Kuroda : [takes something from his bag] Thousand stitch belt. When I joined kamikaze, my mother went into the streets and asked people who passed by to put one knot.
Col. Steve Austin : I've heard of it. One knot, one prayer.
Kuroda : A thousand prayers to carry with you until you die.
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Kuroda : I am sorry to kill you. You have a strange honor, almost Japanese. But you are the enemy.
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Kuroda : I have a gift I hope you will accept.
[presents his thousand stitch belt]
Col. Steve Austin : Kuroda, I can't accept your thousand stitch belt, that represents your life.
Kuroda : It's the only thing left I value. Please accept.
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Kuroda : My family Samurai. Fighting men. My grandfather's father was Samurai and all their fathers before them. The fought for their masters without questioning for hundreds of years. The bushido: the man's honor and duty. Not questons.
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Kuroda : You'll make a mistake... and die.
Col. Steve Austin : And you'll win?
Kuroda : I cannot lose. I have nothing.
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Kuroda : I had hoped that my enemies would have killed me. There is dishonor in living beyond one's moment.
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Kuroda : We were not to live with our plane gone. My navigator Ioki did what was right. He committed seppuku. Harakiri.
Col. Steve Austin : And you couldn't. So that makes you a coward, is that it?
Kuroda : He earned his way to heaven. But when I saw him die, I could not do it.