36 Quotes by Hiroyuki Sanada

I was very comfortable on the set of Lost. I was so nervous when I went on to the set because I had just watched all the Lost episodes. I was, like, a fan. A big fan.

47 Ronin is a very special movie for me. Not only a Samurai thing. Not only a Hollywood fantasy. It has a very special mixture between Japanese traditional culture and Western culture for the costume, set, story. Everything. I believe it will be a very special film that no one has ever seen.

It was a black and white film [at first]. And then it changed to colour film, and I was surprised and culture shocked when I was six or seven years old. And then HD, then 3D now. So what's going? What's coming next? It's so exciting.

I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.

This is a good thing, mixing culture to make something new, something no one has ever seen. This is kind of a new history.

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.

I believe, the Japanese film industry must be open.

This is almost the most famous story The last samurai - Samurai story - in Japan.

I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago.