Rabbit chitatap stew?
With dried Ezo matsutake and oshiroi shimeji mushrooms.
And I've mixed dried alpine leek into the meat.
Let's try it.
It's good!
It's not as fatty or heavy as the squirrel.
I feel so warm.
I feel alive again!
Asirpa-san, it's good enough as it is,
but wouldn't miso make it better?
What's miso?
Let's try it.
Sugimoto, that's... osoma!
Osoma?
Poop!
It's not poop.
Don't be silly.
It's poop.
I'm telling you, it's not poop.
It's good. Try it.
Are you trying to feed me poop?
Absolutely no way!
It's not poop.
Man, this is good.
It's just as good as I thought it would be.
Man, if you're Japanese, you gotta love miso.
He's happily eating poop.
Don't talk about me like I'm a weirdo. It's not nice.
Hinna, hinna.
Quiet.
Golden Kamuy
Episode Three Kamuy Mosir
Down this hill, we'll find a bear den.
Bears will dig their own dens,
but they'll also reuse dens if they can find them.
There's one over there.
Go take a look.
Why me?
If there're icicles on the entrance or it smells like raw meat,
there's likely a bear inside.
Be quiet when you approach, Sugimoto.
It's hibernating, right?
It's just half-asleep as it hides from the cold.
If you're loud, it will wake up.
There're icicles, yup.
There's half-eaten bamboo on the ground, too.
Well?
There might be one in there.
Want to catch it?
How?
We put stakes over the entrance to seal it.
The bear will get wary and poke its head out,
and then we hit it with a poison arrow.
But my father was very brave. He would take the poison arrow into the den
and kill the bear himself.
There's an Ainu saying that bears won't kill someone who enters their den.
Like hell I'm doing that.
It's not like we'll starve if we don't eat that bear right now.
Let's go.
Are bears even tasty?
The brains are good with salt.
What is it, Asirpa-san?
Sugimoto, what's that?
Something's shining.
It's around the area we were staying this morning.
Shit!
Those are binoculars!
How many are there?
Three... No, four!
I totally let my guard down!
Sugimoto, run through that bamboo grove!
It'll be harder to see your footsteps, which will delay pursuit!
We can't get away.
Asirpa-san, let's split up.
They'll only follow the adult.
You hang onto this.
If they catch you, hand it over to them without resisting.
Pretend you know nothing.
They're not the kind of people who'd kill a kid.
Do what I tell you!
Got it?
Sugimoto!
Don't think about fighting them.
You'll be killed.
I'm Immortal Sugimoto.
Found them.
This way.
They split up.
The child went that way.
Okay, I'll leave her to you.
The rest of you, follow me.
She concealed her footsteps?
Smart girl.
But I'm from a family of Matagi from Tohoku.
I've seen animals pull that stunt many times.
In order to evade pursuit, you carefully walk backwards on your own footprints,
then jump into a nearby stand of bamboo.
Come down.
I'm not here to hurt you.
The man I was with puts poop in his soup and eats it.
Kuwtora Sisam, ohau or osoma omare wa e.
Crap.
I have no idea what she said.
I'm not going to eat you.
Come down.
Hand it over to them without resisting.
Come down.
I'm only interested in your friend.
Who was that you were with?
No way.
Why does a child have this?
Drop the bow.
I knew it. You do understand me.
Throw your quiver and blades down on the ground.
Stop!
Drop the gun.
The bayonet, too.
Why are you running?
Why...?
You're hunting for poachers, right?
I was hunting forbidden deer.
I had that Ainu kid as my guide.
What a waste of time...
I've seen your face before. It was in the Port Arthur field hospital.
Sugimoto, from the 1st Division.
Immortal Sugimoto.
When he woke up, Private Ogata used all of his remaining strength to write one word:
"Immortal."
You're the one who attacked Private Ogata, aren't you...
Sugimoto?
Get down on the ground! Hands behind your head!
Get down on the ground, Sugimoto!
Do as you're told!
We're wasting time. Shoot out his knees!
Damn it!
I'm...
Immortal!
He ran into the hole.
Pathetic.
Shall we smoke him out?
Forget it.
Let's just shoot.
But if he dies, we can't learn anything from him.
If he's who he says he is, he won't die, right?
Let's find out.
What's wrong? Scared!
Don't think you can fight the 7th Division and escape unharmed!
Come and get me!
This is an Ezo wolf! They're supposed to be extinct!
Retar!
Retar, stop! That's enough!
You're the last Horkew Kamuy.
Don't become a Wenkamuy for my sake.
But thanks for saving me.
Bears never kill someone who goes inside their den, huh?
I can't leave you, so I'm taking you.
But Asirpa-san might turn you into chitatap and eat you.
Golden Kamuy
You like it here, right? I know you do!
Asirpa-san!
Good. You're safe, huh?
Oh, it's that white wolf.
Stay quiet, okay?
Or they'll find out.
Is he dead?
He can't follow us with his legs like that.
We can leave him there.
Let's go. He's dead.
Sugimoto, what's that?
This is... nothing!
Nothing at all!
Sugimoto, what are you doing with that baby bear?
I'll take good care of him!
I'll be his mommy!
You'll be his mommy?
Have you ever raised a baby bear?
Do you even know what they eat?
Okay.
You can eat him yourself.
I can't do it...
Huh? I'm not going eat it.
When we capture baby bears, we raise them in our village.
Okay, let's go! To my kotan!
Asirpa's back!
Look! Asirpa!
And she brought a Sisam back with her!
Nobody's scared of me.
The Ainu are very curious people.
They love new things.
Huci. My grandmother on my mother's side.
Hello.
Nipere wa sinire.
Feed him, and let him rest.
Ma'am, I've only come to give you this.
I'm not staying long.
I'll leave soon.
Huci doesn't speak the language of the Sisam.
She's telling you to eat and stay the night.
Thank you, ma'am.
Won't it cause problems for you if I stay here?
You're the first guest Asirpa has ever brought home. We will welcome you.
It's okay.
Before he passed away, my grandfather was the most important person in the village.
Nobody will complain to Huci.
Look at this tattoo!
The more important your husband is, the bigger your tattoo!
And everybody's curious about you.
That was a beautiful wolf.
That silver pelt...
I want it.
Is it my Tohoku Matagi blood, maybe?
I'll follow it wherever it goes and kill it!
Do any other families live in this house?
Just Huci.
My uncle and his wife live in a different cise.
My grandfather died of illness six years ago.
And my mom died of illness soon after giving birth to me,
so I don't really know her.
Asirpa spends all her time in the mountains and can't do any women's work.
She can't weave, she can't sew... A woman who can't do women's work won't be able to marry an Ainu husband.
She's almost old enough to get her tattoo, but she says she doesn't want it.
There's lots of other girls who say they don't want the tattoos!
You're just behind the times!
Mr. Sugimoto,
please take her as your wife.
I'm so worried about my granddaughter that I can't leave this world yet...
What did she say to me?
She says you shouldn't eat poop.
It's not poop, ma'am.
It's miso!
You've got weird ears!
What?
She says you have weird ears, not like us.
Ainu earlobes are round and thick.
My name's Sugimoto.
What's your name?
I'm Osoma!
That means poop, doesn't it?
You liar.
It's true.
We give our children filthy names to keep the demons of sickness away.
Sitaktak means "clump of feces."
Somomap means "diaper."
Tennep means "sticky thing."
Around their sixth birthday,
we give them a real name based on their personality and things that
have happened in their life.
What was your name, Asirpa-san?
Ekasiotompuy. "Grandfather's asshole."
Yeah, I can see demons running from that.
What is she feeding him?
A mixture of meat broth and rice soup.
Hey, Asirpa-san,
you haven't tried to touch the bear.
You don't like him?
That's not it.
You shouldn't be too nice to him, or you'll get attached.
You send them back to the mountains when they grow up, right?
No, we send them to the land of the gods in a traditional ceremony.
In other words...
There was once a baby bear I took care of like a baby brother.
A year later, just before the ceremony, I tried to send him into the mountains,
and everyone got really mad.
I got so sad that I didn't go to his ceremony, even though I went to the others.
So you'll kill him, after all?
We don't think of it as killing. We think of it as sending back.
We treat everything around us that helps us,
or is beyond our control, as kamuy, or "gods."
Ceremonies of thanks are we have a good relationship with them.
We make our living hunting, so animal kamuy are important gods.
In the land of the gods, the animals have human forms,
and they come to play in our world,
bringing us the pelts and meat of animals.
The most important of them all is the Kimun Kamuy, the bear.
It's an honor to raise a baby bear.
We raise them with care and love for a year or two.
When we send back a bear we've been caring for,
the whole village participates in a huge ceremony.
This is called an "iomante."
We have them tell the other gods that our world is a fun place to be.
If we do this, the kamuy will come to us again and again.
Asirpa-san, do you believe that?
Our beliefs contain our way of life.
For example, I think we raise a captured baby bear
because it gives us a pelt and meat when it grows up.
That's how we've lived for so long.
So I believe it's right.
But there's no way to prevent the sorrow of parting.
So I keep my distance, so that I won't get attached.
That's a very pragmatic way of thinking.
You're not like most Ainu, are you, Asirpa-san?
My father gave me the name "Asirpa."
It means "a new year."
But it can also mean "the future."
I'm an Ainu girl for a new era!
Lt. Tsurumi,
it'll be difficult to do any more tracking in this snow.
None of the four of them are here in the mountains for the first time.
Tanigaki is a Matagi.
It's hard to imagine he's lost.
Tsurumi!
You bastard! What do you think you're doing, taking my men out like this?
Oh, Captain Wada!
One man in critical condition!
Four missing!
And I heard you brought a giant pile of weapons and ammunition from Asahikawa!
You're going to pay for this, Tsurumi!
I'm sorry, a fragment of a shell blew off the front of my skull in the Battle of Mukden,
and sometimes it leaks out.
You think you can be a lieutenant like that?
Tsurumi, there's no place for you in the army now, got it?
Tsurumi, have you gone mad?!
My finger!
I lost a bit of my frontal lobe, too...
It's done horrible things to my temper.
Other than that, I'm the picture of health.
Wounds to the front of the body are like a medal for a soldier.
Don't you think it only improves your looks?
You're insane.
Fire!
Yes, sir!
Strip him and bury him.
Our comrades still lie beneath the cold Manchurian wastes.
Our war isn't over yet!
Your strong libido's gotten the better of you,
Ushiyama the Undefeated.
How did you find me?
You sold me out, didn't you?!
You're hurting me! You're hurting me!
You'll break it!
Did you think you could shatter my hard head?
Of course.
Look at this, Ushiyama.
Put the oiled paper against their body and copy the tattoos when they show through,
and you'll get an accurate copy of the tattoos.
There's no need to kill them.
Help me.
What we need here is a relationship of mutual interest.
What are you gathering people for?
At some point, we'll have to face the 7th Division.
We're going to steal the tattooed skins they have.
Are you planning on facing the Imperial Army with an obsolete weapon like a katana...
Old Man Hijikata?
No matter how old he gets, a boy always loves to swing around a katana, right?
Next Time Grim Reaper
Next time: "Grim Reaper."