The only intelligentsia (Russian intellectual elite) of the Cobra Unit, but a dead man. Medium Soldier The Sorrow (霊媒兵士ザ･ソロー). Take off his glasses, and he's an Ed Harris type man. It is easily understandable how The Boss would fall for him.
(this is ed harris by the way and DANG. the movie i remember him from is a GOOD michael bay movie called the rock, with sean connery and nic cage and a soundtrack by harry gregson-williams that was basically fucking MGS and i cried a fucking lot jesus IT WAS RLY GOOD!!!)
Japanese people will know this river to be the "三途の川 Sanzu no Kawa" - "River of Three Paths".
It seems there were some people who, because of thinking this is the Sanzu River, refused to cross the river.
(In Japanese beliefs, after a person dies, he goes into the next world, the other world. But before actually leaving this world and entering the next world, there is a border between the two worlds, a river, where the person must first be judged. This river is known as the 三途の川 Sanzu no Kawa, or the River of Three Paths. (Very similar to the River Styx or River Acheron of Greek mythology.)
The actual name of this river is the 賽の河原 Sai no Kawara (River Plains of Sai).
葬頭河 Souzuka (Head Burying River), 三瀬川 Mitsusekawa (Three Waters River), and 渡り川 Watarikawa (Crossing River) are some other popular names of this river. 三途の川 Sanzu no Kawa (River of Three Paths) is just the name popularly used because of its three paths.
The 1st path is for the sinless, who cross the river on a bridge.
The 2nd path is for the light sinners, who cross the river through shallow waters.
The 3rd path is for the heavy sinners, who cross the river through deep waters.
The bridge of the first path is made of gold and silver and bejeweled with the seven gems.
The shallow waters of the second path is high just below the knee.
The deep waters of the third path flows quickly and turbulent, with waves as high as mountains, rocks coming downstream with the waterflow, and huge snakes swimming at the bottom.)
