Golden Kamuy -The Abashiri Prison Raid- (ゴールデンカムイ 網走監獄襲撃編)

KANTO ORWA YAKU SAK NO

ARANKEP SINEP KA ISAM

"NOTHING COMES FROM HEAVEN WITHOUT PURPOSE"

During the Meiji era,

there were rumors of a massive trove of Ainu gold hidden somewhere in Hokkaido.

I'm Immortal Sugimoto!

I want to fulfill my promise to Toraji.

I want Ume's eyes to heal.

After surviving the Russo-Japanese War, Saichi Sugimoto heads to Hokkaido.

Want to hear an interesting story?

Back in the day,

you could find gold the size of beans in the Hokkaido rivers.

You know, a real "gold rush."

A group of Ainu was secretly raising funds to build an army.

20,000 kan of gold bullion.

Then one guy stole it all

by murdering the Ainu involved.

After hiding the gold somewhere in Hokkaido, the guy got arrested

and thrown into prison.

"Noppera-Bo."

He tattooed a code for the buried treasure's location

onto his fellow convicts' bodies.

Tattoos.

Then he told the convicts,

"Break out of here."

"I'll give half the gold to whoever succeeds."

Sugimoto learns that the tattoos on the Abashiri Prison escapees

show where the Ainu gold is hidden.

With the help of Asirpa, an Ainu girl,

and Shiraishi, one of the convicts, Sugimoto sets out to collect the tattoos.

- I guess the story is hard to believe. - I believe it.

My aca was one of the Ainu killed there.

I'll find out why my aca had to be killed.

I'll find the truth.

We will find the gold.

Yeah.

Kiroranke nispa !

An old friend of my aca .

I know about what happened

in Abashiri Prison.

Noppera-Bo

is Asirpa's father.

He wants you, Asirpa, to have the gold.

My aca ?

You're looking for your father, aren't you?

How do you know about Aca?

I don't believe in predictions.

I'm a modern Ainu woman.

But Sugimoto and Asirpa weren't the only ones looking for the gold.

Toshizo Hijikata had been gathering the escaped convicts.

There are no useless geezers, only survivors.

Are you going to recreate the Republic of Ezo?

How would you like to hire a skilled bodyguard?

The Seventh Division, led by Tsurumi.

We'll take over the Seventh Division and gain total control of Hokkaido.

We'll form a military government.

Behold! Your new leg.

The two factions joined the hunt,

eager to get their hands on the gold.

We'll go to Abashiri and meet Sugimoto's group there.

Then it's time for us to go

to Abashiri.

I want to see with my own eyes whether Noppera-Bo is Aca.

If he really is Aca,

he'll tell me everything.

I want to see her get to the truth.

To uncover Noppera-Bo's identity, Sugimoto's group heads to Abashiri Prison,

where a fateful confrontation awaits.

We'll be the ones to find the gold.

KUSHIRO, 1907 (MEIJI 40)

The red, ripe fruit of the beach rose can be eaten raw.

We also simmer them and eat them dipped in fish oil.

We call this month mawtachup .

"The month for picking beach roses." That's how important they are.

It's sour.

I'm starving.

I wanna eat something else.

Asirpa, where'd you go?

She's catching sunfish.

Sunfish?

She said sunfish nap near the surface in the summer and are easy to catch.

I sewed the buttons back on for you.

Thanks.

God of needles, I humbly thank you for your help.

You've done so much for Cikapasi and me.

I could say the same. I feel safer with a man around.

You act like you don't care, but you're nice to me when it counts.

Are you two married?

Want some meat?

It's a sea otter. I just caught it.

But I live alone, so I can't eat it.

- Here. - He's giving us the sea otter.

Sea otter?

I've never had it before.

Thank you.

The two of you must eat it alone.

What did he say?

I'll go pick more beach roses.

Weather's turning. You should head back.

Okay.

Thanks.

This isn't looking good.

There's a hut over there!

- Where's Cikapasi? - At the inn.

Where's Inkarmat? She should be nearby.

Enough talking! Let's move!

I hope Asirpa's okay.

Inkarmat!

This way!

I hope the others are all right.

We should stay put.

They say it's bad luck to keep working when you hear thunder.

The sea otter.

I hope they haven't cooked it.

So this is sea otter meat.

I've never smelled anything like it.

Yeah.

It's gamy, but I like the taste.

It's leaner than I expected.

Hinna . I like it.

According to the Ainu, you must not cook otter stew

if you do not have an equal number of men and women in the room.

Something isn't right.

Shiraishi looks unbelievably

sexy.

The smell of otter stew stimulates sexual desire.

Those without a partner often faint from its effects.

Inkarmat.

Some time ago, you spoke to me about my father.

You know Aca?

I know him well.

I met him when I was little.

When we first met,

your father, Wilk, had just come to Hokkaido.

He spoke Ainu with a Karafuto accent.

He had blue eyes like you.

He said his father was Polish and his mother was a Karafuto Ainu.

Before the Russo-Japanese War, Karafuto was Russian territory.

Wilk said there were many Poles there.

They had been oppressed by Imperial Russia

and exiled from Europe to the Far East.

Wilk joined forces with ethnic minorities from the Amur River basin

to wage a liberation movement against Imperial Russia.

He fought, got injured,

and fled to Otaru in Hokkaido.

When I met him, I was wandering from place to place, telling fortunes.

I spent every day with him.

Wilk embraced everything I taught him.

The beliefs of the Hokkaido Ainu, the land, the language, all of it.

Yuk .

"Yuk" ?

My father never told me about you.

He said he learned everything from my mother.

I don't believe a thing you say.

Well, your mother was a beautiful woman.

To Wilk,

I was just a child.

I suppose he forgot all about me.

Sugimoto, are you okay?

Damn it, matagi.

Are you trying to seduce us?

My head is spinning.

Are you all right? Talk to me!

You should lie down right away.

Ogata, let's get that shirt open. You'll feel a lot better.

Take his pants off!

Wait.

Let's strip him naked!

Kiro.

Hey there.

Been a while.

I got separated from Hijikata's group. Haven't seen them since Asahikawa.

I asked about you at every kotan . That's how I found you.

What's that smell coming from the pot?

The prisoner they call Noppera-Bo is not your father.

Wilk would never kill Ainu and make off with their gold.

Your father

was killed by Kiroranke.

That's ridiculous. You expect me to believe that?

This isn't a prediction. I have proof.

Sugimoto.

I gotta say,

I don't remember you being

such a handsome stud.

Oh, stop it.

You too, Kiro.

You look like you've been working out.

What do you think, Tanigaki?

I can't think.

Me neither.

Yeah.

What do we do?

I can't take it anymore!

Let's wrestle.

Good idea.

THE ABASHIRI PRISON RAID-

We got carried away.

Don't tell anyone, okay?

- Yeah. - Of course.

There you are, Asirpa!