Dersu Uzala, while not a film in Japanese, still displays Kurosawa's skills as a director and concern for the environment. Kurosawa does not allow the language barrier to keep him from making an award-winning film; Dersu Uzala won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Kurosawa created a film based on the novel by Russian writer Vladimir Arsenyev. The epic film follows a Russian captain surveying the Russian wilderness of Siberia. During his travels, he happens upon a Goldi (native Siberian tribe) hunter named Dersu Uzala who becomes his guide, and who later saves his life. The film follows the decline of Dersu and the paralleled decline of nature. The spirit of the film also coincides with Japanese Shinto ideas of nature, and sacred places. The captain finally gains unwavering appreciation for the wilderness when Dersu can no longer function in the forest. The film ends tragically with the senseless death of Dersu which is inevitable. This leaves the audience with a sense of loss of nature and also allows Kurosawa to show that this issue is not just a Japanese one, but is a common issue that must be addressed by everyone. This clip shows Dersu displaying his harmonious existence with nature. He is using his skills to interpret the clues left at the fire. Dersu explains the clues left by "bad Chinese" and betrays his own view on how one should live life. This scene critiques people's abuse of nature and lack of morality. These are the elements of Arsenvev's novel Kurosawa is trying to bring to the world. While this film in not in Japan or in Japanese, it can still tell us about Kurosawa and the problems he sees in Japan that need to be addressed.