We finally found you!
We've been looking for you since Otaru!
For me?
We met an Ainu hunter over there and asked them.
Hey, did you see an Ainu girl?
She should be with a Japanese man with a scar on his face.
Oh, the one we just saw?
They were amazed you'd come so far!
They wanted us to all come visit them in their kotan!
They hunted a bear!
Let's go, Asirpa!
Let's go, Sugimoto!
There's bear stew waiting for us!
I'd rather hit the local bars on Inkarmat-chan's dime!
No way! Inkarmat is part of my family!
Family?
Yeah! She doesn't get mad if I touch her boobs,
and Tanigaki Nispa is her gigolo.
Correct.
Why are they here?
Gigolo...
No, um...
Golden Kamuy
Episode Nineteen Kamuy Hopunire
Oh, you found them?
Welcome!
The Kamuy Hopunire is about to begin.
Have a good time.
Kamuy Hopunire means "The Setting-Off of Gods." It's a ceremony.
They send off the hunted bear.
It's a different ritual than an iomante,
where they send off a bear that was raised in a cage.
That shout is called an okokokse.
It's to tell the god of fire that a bear has been hunted.
The "kamuy" are things that humans can't do,
things that help us, and things that bring us disaster.
Fire is a critical part of our lives.
Blades cut cleanly through things we can't cut on our own.
So they have kamuy within them.
Trees are kamuy that sit on the mountains.
Bad weather and plagues are beyond human power to control,
so they're kamuy, too.
But it's not that they're so much greater than humanity.
We think of them as equals.
We've always believed that when we're hunting,
we don't hit the prey with our arrows, but instead the kamuy run into them for us.
We invite them to our world, and in exchange for their meat and pelts,
they ask for sake and tobacco, things that only we can make.
Then we send off the kamuy with a proper ritual,
so that they'll tell the other kamuy that the human world is a good place.
If we don't treat them properly, they'll never come back down to our world.
After this, the bear's head will be taken to an outdoor altar decorated with inaw.
Inaw are shaven wood sticks that are given to the kamuy as a gift.
When a kamuy has many inaw, its status in its own world grows.
It's said the inaw we give it transform into silver and gold,
and become valuable treasures for it to keep.
So even in the afterlife gold is valuable,
and if you have lots of it, you'll be happy, huh?
What's that cironnup thinking?
Asirpa...
I have something important to tell you.
I've come here to tell you about Huci.
Huci...
You came all the way from Otaru to tell her that, Private Tanigaki?
Private Ogata...
Lt. Tsurumi actually sent you here to watch me, right?
No... I'm done with the army.
That old lady helped me, so I'm bringing her granddaughter back safe.
That's my job.
I don't know if I believe you.
You were a fervent believer in Lt. Tsurumi. You killed three men in the mountains.
In the mountains?
You mean the three who were with Tanigaki?
It was a bear that killed them.
I was there. So I know for sure.
A bear?
The old lady had a dream where she never saw her granddaughter again?
It's just a dream.
Send a damn letter.
We Ainu have always believed that dreams are something the kamuy send when
they have something to show us.
I don't believe that, but Huci is one of the old Ainu.
And she once had a dream a long time ago...
In the dream, her daughter was surrounded by bears,
sending her off to the next world.
Soon after that my mother got sick and died, she told me.
That's why she believes in dreams so fervently.
Asirpa-san, do you want to just head back?
If she sees your face even once,
it makes her dream no longer a prophecy, right?
She'll feel better.
You don't have to force yourself to stay here.
Don't treat me like a child, Sugimoto.
There's something I want to know, no matter what.
I'm going to learn what I need to know, and go forward for the sake of my own dream.
Hey, Tanigaki Nispa.
I've been wondering about that Murata gun.
Did that belong to Nihei Tetsuzou?
You knew Nihei?
We hunted bears together over a decade ago.
He was so good at it, I thought there wouldn't be any bears left in the area.
Nihei died in the mountains.
I took the gun from his body.
I see.
But you must have a hard time using an old gun like that.
Nihei Tetsuzou turned me from a soldier back into a Matagi.
I decided to carry it, so I don't forgot how to feel when I shoot my prey.
"Always end the battle in one bullet"?
See those seven small marks on the barrel?
Nihei told me what they meant.
I've got a lot of kids, but only one son.
This is the gun he used in the first Sino-Japanese War.
A friend of his gave it to me,
and told me that each mark on the barrel was added when he shot an enemy.
Maybe he just stopped counting after the seventh,
or maybe he died after.
Either way, he wasn't the sort of person who would enjoy shooting people.
But the sort of wimp who'd feel guilt after killing someone
has no business being a soldier.
He should've stayed home and shot bears with me.
I-Is that you, Ryu?
Ryu?!
It's Ryu!
What's Nihei's dog doing here?
Did you bring him?
No...
Ryu, were you...
Were you following Tanigaki the whole time, since he had Nihei's gun?!
You're such a great dog.
Ow, ow, ow, ow!
That hurt, you stupid animal!
Get lost!
Ryu's a loyal dog.
He won't forget an enemy of his master.
What will you do now, Tanigaki?
I'll follow you until Asirpa achieves her goal.
I see.
Asirpa, once we get to town, I'll send a telegram to Huci.
Okay!
All right, off to Abashiri we go, Asirpa-san!
Right!
Golden Kamuy
Lt. Tsurumi will scold me!
When he heard I let Shiraishi Yoshitake get away,
he must've been really upset!
How did he look?
Sergeant Tsukishima, did Lt. Tsurumi say anything about me?
You don't need to tell me! I know, Tsukishima!
I'm...
I'm going to be sent to Abashiri to watch Inudou Shirosuke!
Second Lt. Koito, calm down.
See? I brought the photos you asked for.
These are great, Tsukishima!
There's no scar on his face, so this must have been taken
before the Battle of Mukden!
I'm jealous of you, Sergeant Tsukishima.
If I'd only been born a little earlier, I could've fought with him.
This is perfect!
Tsukishima, crush up some rice to use as glue!
No.
I didn't know you were here, Second Lt. Koito!
Hey.
Sunmohan! Oiga toborenkatta de Shiraishi wo hinnigashite shimaimashita!
Jaddon irezumi dake wa jizen ni utsuchoimoshita.
Jacchiten yurusarui wake ja aimohandon!
Calm down.
I can't make out high-speed Satsuma dialect.
Deep breaths.
Hinnigashite shimaimoshita don shiraishin irezumi ha utsuchichoimoshita.
I don't understand you!
Tsukishima!
Tell him Shiraishi got away, but I made a copy of his tattoos.
He says he made a copy of Shiraishi's tattoos.
Why am I the only one who gets the high-speed Satsuma dialect, Second Lt. Koito?
I ordered you not to kill Shiraishi because I thought he had value.
And you let him fall into enemy hands...
I'm disappointed in you, Second Lt. Koito.
That looks great on you!
That's the skin of the prisoner who was pretending to be Inudou, right?
This is an unexpected bonus.
From what we've learned,
it's safe to assume these tattoos belonged to the con artist Suzukawa Kiyohiro.
Well done, Second Lt. Koito.
But...
The lines aren't quite right.
Sunmohan! Sunmohan!
That's what I'm talking about, Second Lt. Koito.
Sunmohan! Sunmohan!
You're off the Asahikawa mission.
From now on...
You're helping me hunt the other prisoners.
He says, "I'll do my best."
This is such a pain.
You're sure it was Ogata Hyakunosuke who was aboard the airship
with Shiraishi and Sugimoto, right?
"Yes."
"He disgraces the noble suicide of Ogata's father Hanazawa Koujirou,
the former commander of the 7th Division."
"Even my father feels strong distrust towards central command for the way
they blamed Lt. General Hanazawa's suicide on the 7th Division."
"So what is Ogata thinking?"
Second Lt. Koito's father was, like Lt. General Hanazawa, born in Satsuma,
and they were both friends. Is that correct?
The cause of the suicide was central command placing the full blame
for the high casualties on 203 Hill at Lt. General Hanazawa's feet.
I believed that, of course, Ogata Hyakunosuke would fight for
his father's honor and for the 7th division, but...
At the time, my father was a Lt. Colonel in the 1st Imperial Guard Regiment.
Given his position,
he must've been rather irritated to have an Asakusa geisha bear his child.
When a son was born to his wife,
my grandmother told me he stopped coming entirely.
My grandmother took my mother and me, when I was still a baby,
back to her home in Ibaraki.
My mother used to make monkfish stew.
Fugu in the west and monkfish in the east, they'd say.
It was a local dish for the lower classes.
I liked it. I ate it a lot.
But I ate it every day.
In the winter, every day, my mom...
...would try to make monkfish stew.
My father said he liked it, so she thought he might come back to eat it.
Every single day...
She'd gone crazy.
I took an old gun my grandfather had out to the field and shot a bird.
I thought that if I brought it home, my mom might not make monkfish stew.
But no matter how many birds I hunted, she kept making monkfish stew.
That's why I...
When my grandparents were gone,
I put rat poison into the monkfish stew and fed it to her.
If my father had any love left for my mother, he would come to the funeral, I thought.
In the end, she would see the man she loved.
But...
You never came.
Don't tell me this is out of hatred for me abandoning you?
You took pity on your insane mother,
but you were sick of her, too.
Just like me!
Children don't get to pick their parents.
"Love" is as vague a concept as "God."
But if you did have any love for my mother, you wouldn't have abandoned her.
Perhaps a child born between parents that lack love...
...comes out missing something.
No matter how great his father's bloodline is.
The fact that Second Lt. Hanazawa Yuusaku,
the child you had with your wife, is a nobleman proves that.
I only met him after I joined the military,
and I didn't know how to react.
He called me "big brother," no matter how many times I told him he outranked me.
He never left me alone. He said he'd grown up always wanting a brother.
That innocent smile...
It made me realize that this was a boy...
...who'd grown up beloved by his parents.
By the way, his father would've had no way to know the truth
about how Second Lt. Hanazawa Yuusaku really died at Hill 203.
I shot him in the back of the head.
Not out of any jealousy toward him,
or even really a desire to make his father suffer.
I just wanted to see something...
When he heard of Yuusaku-san's death, would the father think of me,
or perhaps suddenly care much more for the other son he had with his mistress?
Was there ever a chance for me to be happy, too?
You're right...
You're missing something. You're a failure of a son!
A curse upon you!
The brass will make the 7th take responsibility for his suicide.
It will be a difficult time for us, but you must endure.
With an external enemy, the 7th will come together even more!
The 7th will make the only surviving son of Lt. General Hanazawa into a hero.
They'll see in you the god of war they lost!
Well done, Ogata Hyakunosuke.
Well done.
Goddamn seducer.
Next Time Blue Eyes
Next Time: "Blue Eyes."