John Fujioka credited as playing...
Kuroda
- 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 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.