Original subtitles

PILOT: Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!

This is Turner Air Lines Flight 367. Mayday!

CONTROLLER: This is Clark Air Force Base, Flight 367.

State your problem and position.

PILOT: Number one engine is out.

Second engine's losing oil.

Position is 17 degrees North by 135 degrees East.

We're headed down toward an island, dense jungle...

losing altitude fast, can't control it, landing gear seems stuck...

(END OF TRANSMISSION)

Mr. Goldman, that jet has got to be found... now!

I wouldn't hold out too much hope for the passengers or the crew.

It's not just the men.

Hm?

You're aware of the proposal our company made to the military last year?

OSCAR: Peregrine bomb.

Yes, you people say you can reduce the size of this tactical nuclear missile...

by 75 percent?

Our people are checking your specs now.

HAYWORTH: This is just a mock up.

Last month we completed a working prototype of Peregrine |...

at our South Pacific Lab.

It was aboard that plane.

You can't fly atomic weapons anywhere without government approval...

and you know it!

It was illegal, but it's done.

And now something's gotta be done to get that missile back.

It could go off on impact.

A small explosion or the intense heat of a fire could...

Well, it's capable of blowing that entire island off the map.

And besides, there's the danger of it falling into the wrong hands.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

(STEPS APPROACHING)

(GASPS)

(EXOTIC ANIMAL SOUNDS)

FLIGHT COM: It looks good at NASA One.

B- 52 >PILOT: Roger.

BCS Arm switch is on.

FLIGHT COM: Okay, Victor.

B-52 PILOT: Landing Rocket Arm switch is on. Here comes the throttle.

Circuit breakers in.

STEVE: We have separation.

B-52 PILOT: Inboard and outboards are on.

I'm comin' forward with the side stick.

FLIGHT COM: Looks good.

PILOT: Ah, Roger.

STEVE: I've got a blowout in damper three.

SR-71 PILOT: Get your pitch to zero.

STEVE: Pitch is out. I can't hold altitude!

B-52 PILOT: Correction. Alpha Hold is oil“. Threat selector is emergency.

STEVE: Flight Com. I can't hold it! She's breaking up! She's breaking...

ANNOUNCER: Steve Austin. Astronaut.

A man barely alive.

Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.

We have the technology.

We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man.

Steve Austin will be that man.

Better than he was before.

Better, stronger, faster.

(MAIN TITLE THEME)

(MILITARY MUSIC)

OSCAR: There are hundreds of Japanese soldiers like this...

that you'll find on these Pacific Islands...

many of whom still believe that World War II is going on.

Outcasts, forgotten men.

OSCAR: It's the only explanation, Steve.

A soldier like that...

must've been the one that took the bomb from the downed ship.

You know what happened when I sent some agents in?

They were attacked as they approached the crash.

It's pretty strange that he would've taken the warhead.

That's what we thought.

But the survivor of that plane crash...

said that he saw a wild man in a Japanese uniform...

take the warhead from the plane.

Yeah, but the survivor was injured... he was in shock.

He said that he saw a Japanese soldier. He insists upon it.

Surely there's no way the warhead can be detonated.

Ordinarily you'd be right, but this bomb is a prototype.

A fire could set it off.

An explosion could trigger it.

You know, Oscar, we lost a warhead off the coast of Spain a couple of years ago.

Now the military was all over the place until they came up with it.

Why haven't they combed this island?

That bomb fell in international water, Steve.

This bomb fell in another country's territory.

Hmm.

What are you going to do to the company...

that was illegally shipping the nuclear warhead?

I'm gonna turn the matter over to the Attorney General's office...

after you find the bomb.

What makes you think I can find it?

Here is a mock up of the warhead that you'll be looking for.

Even though our government didn't build it...

we're responsible for it if it goes off.

Every moment that it's out of our hands the risk gets greater.

So you've got to find it.

That sounds easy if you could say it fast.

I can help you with a guide.

His father was one of the most famous Phillippino scouts during the war.

They tell me he's some kind of a hothead...

but he knows the area you'll be in better than anyone...

and he also knows the Japanese.

Does he know about the warhead?

All he knows is he's supposed to find a Japanese soldier.

Now I've got a tanker offshore waiting.

When you want to come out, we'll fly in a helicopter.

This soldier may be crazy as well as dangerous.

My name is Tomas Francisco Gabella.

I'm at your service, Colonel Austin.

Well, it's a pleasure.

Looks like we're well equipped.

It's what we need for the jungle.

We'll parachute it down with us, then carry it in.

How often have you done this?

I've stopped counting the number of Japanese I've gone after.

The Old Devil's something else.

The Old Devil?

That's what the island people call him.

And I'm surprised America would let the famous Colonel Austin...

go looking for a common war criminal.

Well, there are some important people in the United States...

who'd like to see him returned to Japan safely.

Besides, we're not at war anymore.

You tell that to the Old Devil.

Well, I'm going to try, if you'll translate.

I was raised during the war, Colonel.

If I hadn't learned Japanese, I wouldn't be alive now.

>PILOT: Prepare for takeoff, gentlemen.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

Your rifle, Colonel.

Oh, no, thanks.

You carry one. That'll be enough.

As you wish, Colonel.

PILOT: We're approaching the jump site, gentlemen.

Prepare to jump.

10 seconds to jump.

(BUZZES)

(BEEPS)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

Let's go.

(WOOD CREAKING)

You moved that like it didn't take any effort.

Huh? Oh, I used to do a lot of weightlifting in college.

Give me your chute.

Which way from here?

That's Ryukan mountain.

We'll head off to the right of it.

Any particular reason?

It's places like that, the valleys...

found a lot of them hiding on other islands.

Well, that's good enough for me.

Let's find our equipment chute and pick up the rest of our gear.

It should be right over there.

Give me a hand with this.

(WOOD CREAKING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

Don't let this terrain deceive you, Colonel.

Death can come very quickly in this jungle.

You know, I can see how hard it would be the find a man in here.

Yeah. During the war, they would lay in wait for us...

just behind that rock or that tree.

We cut a trail to hunt for them.

It'd be overgrown in one night...

so we'd go for days and weeks, never see one of them.

Is that your way of saying we won't find our man?

If we find him, it'll be because he wants us to.

You'll want a rifle when that happens.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

Told you!

(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)

Save your ammunition!

Up in that tree.

It's a booby trap.

We must have hit a trip wire on the trail.

At least we know we're in the right area.

Watch where you put your foot down from here on in.

Hold it.

Look.

Get your head down.

Well, that thing would put a lot of holes in a man, you know?

Don't get scratched.

Bamboo smeared with dung.

If spears don't kill you, infection will.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)

Your feet! Look out!

(RUSTLING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

Miguel? Miguel, can you hear me?

Miguel, can you read me?

Gabella, this is Miguel.

What's happened?

The American, he had an accident.

He's dead.

Are you sure?

Of course, I'm sure. Had no pulse.

And the Japanese?

He's in the area.

I can smell him.

If we move fast, we can find him...

and the atomic weapon.

(BELLS JINGLE)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

I'm sorry, sir. No word from Colonel Austin.

Are you sure you're on the right frequency?

Yes sir, the right frequency, there's just nothing out there.

(JAPANESE FLUTE MUSIC)

(PLAYING FLUTE)

KURODA (JAPANESE): Mate!

Sokoni iro!

Omae wa oreno horyo da!

Namae wa? Kaikyu wa? Gun no mokuteki wa?

Nihongo wo hanase!

I don't speak Japanese.

Baka ni sumna!

Wish I knew what you're saying, my friend...

but I lost my translator somewhere along the way.

Your name! What?

Austin. Steve Austin.

What your rank? Military object?

I'm not attached to the military.

Lie!

Yours!

You wear uniform from American military!

I'm not on a military mission.

The war is over.

It's been over for 30 years.

If over, Japan have this island.

I would know it!

Ugoku na!

I'm just getting up to where I can talk to you face to face.

Your rank.

Colonel.

What I've told you's the truth.

The United States and Japan are at peace.

Never! You try make us nothing.

You cut off ships that bring our feed, our oil.

But the Emperor never make peace with you!

I'm afraid your Emperor didn't have much choice.

It's not easy for me to tell you this.

The United States invented an atomic bomb...

the powerful bomb that could destroy a whole city with one explosion.

At the time it seemed the best way to stop the war was...

to drop the atomic bomb on two Japanese cities.

I wish it wasn't true.

Most Americans wish it never happened.

But it did.

Two Japanese cities were completely destroyed.

Many, many people were killed.

Your Emperor saw the wisdom of surrender.

The fighting stopped...

September, 1945... almost 30 years ago.

Uso da!

No bomb destroy Japan cities! Japan not surrender!

Your Emperor chose life for the Japanese people.

Peace.

You insult me.

This information to make me surrender!

Lies! Lies!

Japan fight for 100 years... for 1,000!

You have military objective.

I let you live only to find it out.

(MELANCHOLY MUSIC)

(EXOTIC ANIMAL NOISES)

(TRADITIONAL JAPANESE MUSIC)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

It's another American invention.

It's a camera.

It gives you a photograph as soon as you snap the shutter.

Another lie.

Try it.

Drink.

More?

No.

Men from your army come looking for you soon.

We move deeper into jungle.

If your army try to capture us, we both die...

ifl push down on this plunger.

Kamikaze not fear death for he takes his enemy with him.

You were a kamikaze pilot.

1,000-stitch belt.

When I join kamikaze...

my mother went into the streets and ask people who pass by...

to put one knot.

I've heard of it.

One knot, one prayer.

1,000 prayers to carry with you until you die.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

What word this?

Peregrine.

Its a falcon a hunting bird.

My father hunted with birds like this.

I helped him train them.

When I saw this falcon bird, I had to have it.

Heavy.

More heavy than birds.

Hunting bird fly high...

bring back squirrel...

sometimes small rabbit.

What inside this hunting bird?

We move now.

Move! Get up!

Austin was here and now he's gone.

MIGUEL: You said he was dead.

If he is alive, he's in no shape to do anything but slow them.

They'll be easy to track. Come on!

I don't want to lose that warhead to Austin.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

Mate!

There.

(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)

STEVE: Mine?

Mm.

You know, I don't know how you can stay in hiding for so long...

without questioning what might have happened.

Chikusho!

(AIMS RIFLE)

My family Samurai...

fighting men.

My grandfather's father was Samurai...

and all their fathers before them.

They fought for their masters...

without questioning for hundreds of years.

The Bushido demands honor and duty...

not questions.

The Samurai warrior is gone.

They disappeared from Japan 100 years ago.

The way of the Samurai not dead.

It lived when I was 15 years old became kamikaze pilot.

It lives as long as Japan lives.

Japan has changed. The world has changed.

Spirit never change!

Get up! We go!

Agh...

You're bleeding again.

Maybe you die first.

Go!

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

(GUNS FIRING)

GABELLA: Colonel Austin!

Take it easy, Tomas.

Don't come too close, my friend is armed.

GABELLA: Sorry, Colonel Austin.

I don't take your orders anymore.

I don't get it.

GABELLA: You can make it out with your life if you don't interfere.

I want the nuclear bomb.

No deal, Tomas!

GABELLA: America no hikoki kara nusunda mono wo kaese!

Bakayaro! Stay here!

(ROPE CREAKING)

Let's go.

(ROPE CREAKING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

Look out!

(GUN FIRES)

(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)

(GUN FIRES)

We go!

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

Miguel, do you read me?

(RADIO STATIC)

Miguel! Do you read me!

Go ahead, this is Miguel.

Miguel, do you see them?

No, no sign of them.

We lost them.

We'd better double back.

Okay.

(UPLIFTING MUSIC)

We rest.

Thanks.

You broke ties around your wrists.

How?

I pulled hard, they broke.

You came for weapon... like them.

That's right.

Look, if an explosion went off near that warhead, it could destroy this whole island.

More lies, that bomb you say destroyed cities in Japan?

No, that's the truth.

The government sent me here to find that warhead...

take it to a place where they can store it safely.

You were offered your freedom back there...

and instead you saved me. Why?

I don't want you to die.

But, I, your enemy.

We don't have to be enemies.

What?

I said...

We are enemies!

You need it more. Carry it.

We go... that way.

PILOT: Blue Lion. This is your Cub.

RADIO OPERATOR: Roger, Cub. This is Blue Lion.

Go ahead.

I've flown a grid pattern over the island for three hours.

There's no sign of anything down there except rocks and jungle.

Keep looking until the last possible moment.

Roger, Blue Lion. Cub out.

That plane that crashed...

did you notice it didn't have propeller engines, but jet engines.

Besides jet engines, we have rocket engines.

These rockets are so powerful that they fly men through space...

all the way to the moon.

(LAUGHS)

Look, I've been out there.

I've stood on the moon and looked back at the earth.

You... fly through space to the moon?

Yes.

And you walk on moon?

Look, I know it's a little hard for you to believe.

You biggest liar on earth! That what I believe!

Move!

(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)

(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

(DEVICE BEEPING)

(GROANS)

No man can move so fast as you moved.

I'll explain after we get this bomb out of here.

First I gotta prove something that I told you was the truth.

(CAMERA CLICKS)

Color picture... with my face?

That not me.

You know, this camera is just one of the many inventions...

that's happened since the war's been over.

Now I want you to lead me back to where that plane crashed.

You'll kill me?

No, I won't kill you.

We're both gonna get out of this alive...

if! have to tie you up and carry you out an inch at a time...

but I won't kill you.

Come on.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

Now I know Austin had something to do with this.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

It soon dark.

I have underground shelter nearby.

Well, we'll rest here for a while.

You'll make a mistake and die.

And you'll win?

I cannot lose. I have nothing.

You might still have family in Japan... friends.

Family... friends... all dead to me.

I am dead to them.

I had hoped that my enemies would have killed me.

There is dishonor in living beyond one's moment.

Stop! Come back here!

Shoot me!

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

Before you die, you tell me the cities that were destroyed by the bombs.

What were they?

Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I hope your family didn't live there.

I am sorry to kill you.

You have a strange honor... almost Japanese.

But you are the enemy, so...

(BIONIC LEG BEEPING)

Omae wa bakemono ka?!

(BIONIC LEG BEEPING)

Kuroda, give me a hand out of here.

Put arm down!

What kind of a devil are you?

I'm a man... just like you.

You've seen me bleed the same way.

There is no blood in that leg.

No, there's not.

I had an accident...

and they put me back together again.

This leg is like a machine.

That's how far we've progressed.

It's real!

It's just like that atomic warhead...

that jet and the camera and all the other things I've told you about.

We're at peace.

Lie! It's all a trick to make me surrender!

Your life for truth, Colonel.

I can't undo history, even for my own life.

I cannot go back.

Why not?

You must understand.

When I left Japan, they clipped my hair and nails for my funeral.

I was dead to the war.

I cannot outlive it.

There is great shame for me.

What is the shame?

You are not Japanese.

You do not understand.

After the war, there were many men thought dead, came back to their families.

There was no shame, only tears...

tears of joy.

I must kill myself.

GABELLA: He's right, Colonel Austin.

He must die.

I watched your people die by the thousands when they knew they were defeated.

You will die that way in defeat.

You don't get an honorable death now.

For my relatives who died in your prison camps...

I'll enjoy killing you!

What about the warhead?

You Americans can make all the warheads you want.

We're poor.

If we keep this one, we can ask for all we want...

and America will pay it.

Don't be a fool, you'll never get it off this island.

You're in no position to do anything, Colonel...

except what we tell you!

Miguel, pick up the pack, there.

I destroy it first!

(GUN SHOT)

(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)

(GROANS)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

Blue Lion, this is Cub.

Go ahead, Cub.

It may be nothing, but there was a flash of light below me... like an explosion.

What's your position?

Roger, Blue Lion, I made it out to be 17.6 by 135.9.

Good.

OSCAR: Get on it right away.

PILOT: Roger, Blue Lion.

I heard explosion.

I thought you dead.

Not this time.

I am glad.

I have respect for you.

It is fitting that you watch me now.

You have no right to take your life now!

I have no right to live in dishonor all these years.

I must confess.

When I made last flight, I was pilot...

but before diving...

I hesitate...

miss the ship.

My fault.

A lot of your pilots missed.

There's no shame in that.

We were not to live with our plane gone.

My navigator, Aoki, did what was right.

He committed...

Seppuku, Hara Kiri.

And you couldn't, so that makes you a coward, is that it?

He earned his way to heaven.

But when I saw him die, I could not do it.

How old were you?

15... 16?

Age does not matter.

A man who has died in his heart...

does not run away from real death.

That is the way of the Bushido.

The Bushido tells a man that he must Show mercy, doesn't it?

That includes compassion for oneself.

Too late.

Kamikaze meant "divine wind."

I am like the last wind of the day.

The midnight wind.

Kamikaze ni okure wo torishi

ware naredo hatete tamoran

masukao no na wo.

You have shown that you know how to die.

For the sake of your enemy, Show me that you know how to live.

(HELICOPTER HOVERING)

(UPLIFTING MUSIC)

The head's okay, huh? Fine.

How's the leg? It'll hold until we get back to the lab.

I got the word on Gabella and his men.

They're gonna be tried for attempting to kill you.

What about the company that tried to transport the warhead?

The Attorney General is preparing a case against them.

I'll be here when you need me.

Okay.

Well, how are you feeling?

I owe you my life... twice over.

I realize I will spend it in prison for all the years I continue to fight.

You won't go to prison.

You see, since you were never officially ordered to surrender...

you won't be held responsible for acting like the war was still on.

You're going home.

Home?

My mother my brother...

if they still live...

how will they greet me?

You'll soon see.

I have a gift.

I hope you will accept.

But Kuroda, I can't take your 1,000-stitch belt.

That represents your life.

It's the only thing left I value.

Please accept.

This calls for something in return.

You already did so much for me.

It's okay for friends to give each other gifts.

But I...

Please.

Come in, please.

(TRADITIONAL JAPANESE MUSIC)

(END THEME MUSIC)