"It's impossible!" Unable to accept the humiliation of losing face before the entire world, and provoked by Zhao Miao's words, Murashita Shuichi abruptly rose to his feet. His face twisted, his eyes bloodshot, he roared, "Impossible! How could Oscar award Best Foreign Language film to those Huaxia pigs? I don't believe it! I refuse to accept it! Huaxia people don't even understand what cinema is! Only we Japanese understand the art of film!"
Murashita Shuichi failed to notice that, in his agitation, his outrageous remarks had already been broadcast across the world through the cameras everywhere.
The Kodak Theatre fell into a strange silence, while the entire world erupted in uproar.
Apology
Murashita Shuichi's public questioning of the Academy at the Oscar ceremony, along with his arrogant and outrageous claim before the world that only Japanese people understood the art of cinema, was faithfully captured by several cameras. The television stations holding the live broadcast rights to the Oscars relayed the footage truthfully to viewers around the globe.
If anyone could have heard every sound on Earth, they would have discovered that, at one particular second, film fans watching the Oscars around the world had all fallen silent. They were stunned by the shameless remarks of the Japanese man. Once they recovered, their initial dumbfounded shock was immediately replaced by the anger of being insulted—
"This is utterly ridiculous!" The Japanese man's vulgar arrogance had completely enraged the Academy. Mr. James, chairman of the Oscar jury, could no longer endure it. Rising from his seat like an enraged lion whose territory had been violated, he pointed at Murashita Shuichi and the Bushido crew. "Oscar's fairness is beyond question, and Oscar's dignity cannot be violated. If you distrust Oscar's judging process so much, why did you bring your country's film to