The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series)

The Last Kamikaze (1975)

John Fujioka: Kuroda

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Quotes 

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Kuroda : I am sorry to kill you. You have a strange honor, almost Japanese. But you are the enemy.

• 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.

• 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.

• Kuroda : You'll make a mistake... and die.

  Col. Steve Austin : And you'll win?

  Kuroda : I cannot lose. I have nothing.

• Kuroda : I had hoped that my enemies would have killed me. There is dishonor in living beyond one's moment.

• 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.