E1 - Wenkamuy

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SIGN    Meiji 37
    (1904)
SIGN    Liaodong Peninsula,
     Lushun,
     203 Meter Hill
[00:27] S
    Sour.
[00:28] Gu
    I'm so hungry.
[00:29] S
    I'm going to survive, even if it means
[00:32] S
    taking a bite out of the pale asses
     of the Russian soldiers I kill.
[00:36] Gu
    Charge! Forward!
[01:28] S
    Just try and kill me!
[01:35] S
    Try and kill me!
[01:40] S
    Die!
[01:45] S
    I'm Immortal Sugimoto!
SIGN    Hokkaido,
     Near Otaru
SIGN    Episode One
    Wenkamuy
[01:59] Gu
    Hey, Sugimoto-san!
[02:02] Gu
    Sugimoto Saichi-san.
[02:05] Gu
    You just came back from the
    Russo-Japanese war, right?
[02:10] Gu
    I heard they call you "Immortal Sugimoto."
[02:14] Gu
    You fought like a demon, they say.
[02:18] Gu
    You were so badly hurt you
    were almost at death's door,
[02:20] Gu
    and the next day you were
    up and running around.
[02:23] Gu
    They said that bayonets, machine guns,
    and even cannonballs couldn't kill you.
[02:27] Gu
    Is that true?
[02:34] Gu
    Listen, if that were true, you would've
    been given a medal for your heroics, right?
[02:39] Gu
    So why are you panning for gold?
[02:42] S
    I would've gotten a medal if I hadn't halfway
     killed a superior officer I didn't like.
[02:45] S
    Right now, I need money.
[02:50] Gu
    I see.
[02:56] Gu
    Hey, want to hear an interesting story?
[03:00] Gu
    It's got to do with gold.
[03:07] Gu
    Don't tell anybody about this.
[03:09] Gu
    I'm only telling you because I like you.
[03:14] Gu
    A long time ago, you used
    to be able to find tons of
[03:17] Gu
    gold nuggets the size of soybeans
    on the Hokkaido riverbanks.
[03:20] Gu
    Every day you could come back
    with 30 monme's worth of the stuff.
[03:25] Gu
    It was what they call a "gold rush," you see.
[03:28] Gu
    Around that time,
[03:29] Gu
    some of the Ainu were storing up tons
    of this gold to fight the Japanese,
[03:36] Gu
    who even after the Meiji Restoration were
    oppressing them by forbidding them
[03:41] Gu
    to hunt salmon or deer,
    and stealing their lands.
[03:45] Gu
    And then a single man stole it all,
[03:49] Gu
    and killed the Ainu who owned it.
[03:52] Gu
    Twenty kans of gold!
[03:55] Gu
    Enough to buy every brothel in
    Otaru and have money to spare!
[04:00] Gu
    The police were after the man, so he
    hid the gold somewhere in Hokkaido.
[04:06] Gu
    But he was arrested before he
    could tell anyone where it was,
[04:10] Gu
    and thrown into Abashiri Prison,
[04:13] Gu
    the prison at the far end of
    the earth, to be sentenced to death.
[04:15] Gu
    He wanted to tell his comrades on
    the outside where the gold was,
[04:20] Gu
    but he never wrote a letter.
[04:23] Gu
    The guards would just steal it, you see.
[04:25] Gu
    Everybody was looking
    for this gold, you know.
[04:33] Gu
    No matter what they did to him, he didn't
     tell anyone where the gold was.
[04:37] Gu
    In the end, one of the guards
    turned out to be a horrible man.
[04:41] Gu
    He cut the tendon of one of the
    man's legs so he couldn't escape.
[04:46] Gu
    What would you do in
     that situation, Sugimoto-san?
[04:49] Gu
    What would you do if you wanted to
    get the location of the treasure
[04:52] Gu
    out of the most heavily-guarded
     prison in Japan?
[04:57] S
    What did he do?
[04:59] S
    Just tell me already.
[05:02] Gu
    Tattoos.
[05:05] Gu
    He tattooed the bodies of his fellow
    death row inmates in his cell
[05:08] Gu
    with a code that revealed the
    location of the treasure.
[05:11] Gu
    He mixed charcoal with saliva,
[05:13] Gu
    and then slowly carved that ink in
    with a needle he'd kept hidden.
[05:17] Gu
    It's said only his comrades on
    the outside can decrypt the code.
[05:20] ---
    And this is what he said
    to the other prisoners:
[05:23] ---
    "Escape from this prison.
[05:25] ---
    Whoever succeeds can have half the treasure."
[05:30] S
    A strange story.
[05:32] S
    Why go to all that trouble?
    Why make a tattoo that stands out?
[05:36] Gu
    You'd think, right?
[05:38] Gu
    It's what comes next that
    explains the tattoos.
[05:42] Gu
    To crack the code, you need
    all the prisoners' tattoos.
[05:48] Gu
    Some of the less reputable members
    of the military heard the rumors
[05:51] Gu
    about the tattoos and dragged
    the prisoners out of their cell,
[05:53] Gu
    saying they were going to "transport" them.
[05:55] Gu
    The police and the military were
    after the gold, too, you see.
[05:58] Gu
    But that was the prisoners' chance to escape.
[06:04] Gu
    They knew that somebody would get
    greedy and take them outside.
[06:09] Gu
    The prisoners killed all the soldiers,
[06:13] Gu
    and every last one disappeared
    into the forest.
[06:16] S
    And then?
[06:21] Gu
    Then what?
[06:22] S
    What happened to the escapees and the gold?
[06:25] GU
    That's the end of the story.
[06:27] GU
    Nobody's caught them.
[06:29] GU
    And nobody knows what happened
    to the gold, either.
[06:34] S
    Who told you that story?
[06:38] S
    You seem quite well-informed about it.
[06:41] S
    This is another tall tale, right?
[06:43] S
    I remember last time, you told me that
    there was still an Ezo wolf out there,
[06:47] S
    and those things are extinct.
[06:59] S
    It's cold.
[07:03] T
    Saichi, you should come with me.
[07:07] (Flashback) T
    You can still pan for gold in Hokkaido.
[07:10] (Flashback) T
    You're not married, so it'll be easy for you.
[07:13] (Flashback) T
    I have to make money for my family's sake.
[07:17] (Flashback) T
    I want a good doctor to take a look
    at Umeko's... At my wife's eyes.
[07:23] (Flashback) T
    Every day she loses more of her vision.
[07:25] (Flashback) T
    It makes me sad to think she
    might not see her kid grow up.
[07:29] (Flashback) T
    Don't you agree, Saichi?
[07:31] (Flashback) S
    Yeah.
[07:32] (Flashback) T
    They say the doctors in America
    are the best in the world.
[07:36] (Flashback) T
    Look at this.
[07:38] (Flashback) T
    The boat tickets and the cost of
    the surgery will be about 200 yen.
[07:42] (Flashback) T
    But one lucky find when panning,
    and that's all you need.
[07:48] (Flashback) T
    Once the war's over, relations between Japan
     and the United States will get worse.
[07:53] (Flashback) T
    I have to hurry.
[07:56] (Flashback) T
    Saichi, take care of Umeko.
[08:00] (Flashback) T
    Nobody will take a girl
    with bad vision and a kid.
[08:04] (Flashback) T
    I've been your best friend forever,
     and I'm begging you.
[08:07] (Flashback) S
    Toraji, what are you talking about?
[08:12] (Flashback) K
    I can't go back to Japan!
[08:17] (Flashback) S
    Wait! Don't go!
[08:19] (Flashback) S
    Are you going to make Umeko a widow?
[08:21] (Flashback) S
    Toraji! Hey!
[08:32] Gu
    Damn it.
[08:35] Gu
    I said too much.
[08:42] S
    Want to see if I'm really immortal?
[08:57] S
    Look.
[08:58] S
    Now, you can shoot it whenever you want.
[09:05] S
    How about that?
[09:07] S
    That tall tale is starting to
    seem a little more credible.
[09:17] S
    If I ignore him, he might
    come back to kill me.
[09:22] S
    I'll have to kill him before he kills me.
[09:32] S
    What the hell?
[09:35] S
    Hang on, I'll pull you out.
[09:52] S
    A bear.
[09:55] S
    A bear buried the rest of his meal here.
[09:59] S
    His neck's broken.
[10:01] S
    Looks like he died before he could scream.
[10:04] S
    You've got bad luck, too, huh?
[10:08] S
    Hey, come on, now!
[10:12] S
    What the hell is this?
[10:16] S
    Are you one of the prisoners
    you were just telling me about?
[10:21] S
    It wasn't a tall tale.
[10:23] S
    That explains how you knew so damn much!
[10:27] S
    So these tattoos lead to the treasure, huh?
[10:35] S
    I can't leave him here.
[10:36] S
    I need to get him somewhere else.
[10:39] S
    Or that bear will come back and
    eat this part of the treasure code.
[10:49] S
    What? A baby bear?
[10:52] S
    Wait, if there's a baby bear...
[11:13] S
    She'll eat me!
[11:19] A
    Get back.
[11:21] A
    That poison is a mix of
     red stingray needles and wolfsbane root,
[11:26] A
    but a brown bear can take
    ten steps after being hit.
[11:29] S
    An Ainu...
SIGN    Golden Kamuy
[11:37] S
    Is it dead?
[11:38] A
    Its hairs that were standing
     on end have fallen.
[11:41] A
    It's dead.
[11:44] S
    What are you doing?
[11:46] A
    Removing the meat from
    around the poison arrow.
[11:49] A
    It's a strong poison, so if you don't,
    it will ruin the meat and pelt.
[11:54] A
    Is he dead?
[11:56] S
    Yeah.
[11:57] S
    His whole stomach got eaten,
     and he was buried.
[11:59] S
    That mother bear got him.
[12:01] A
    Mother bear?
[12:02] S
    It came charging out of the cave next
    to a tree where a baby bear was hanging.
[12:06] A
    That's strange.
[12:09] A
    When a bear has just come out
     of its cave after hibernation,
[12:12] A
    its stomach has shrunk,
     so it can't eat immediately.
[12:15] A
    Even if it attacked a human
    to protect its child,
[12:17] A
    it couldn't eat them.
[12:20] A
    See? The stomach is empty.
[12:22] S
    Then another bear ate him?
[12:25] A
    This is bad.
[12:27] ---
    The only ones who can eat meat at
    this time of year are Matakarip.
[12:30] ---
    In the language of the Ainu,
    "Those that wander in winter."
[12:34] ---
    Very foul-tempered, dangerous bears
     who failed to go into hibernation.
[12:38] ---
    What will you do with that man?
[12:41] S
    I was going to, um,
     take him to a nearby village.
[12:43] A
    Don't even try.
[12:45] A
    He's been half-eaten by a Matakarip.
[12:48] A
    If you steal food from one of them,
     they'll chase you anywhere to get it back.
[12:52] A
    Are you going to lead a
    dangerous bear into a village?
[12:55] A
    Leave it.
[12:56] S
    I can't do that!
[12:58] A
    Is he part of your family?
[13:01] A
    Is he that important to you?
[13:03] S
    No, that's not it.
[13:05] A
    Then you can just shoot the Matakarip.
[13:07] A
    If you're a soldier, then fight.
[13:10] S
    On the battlefield, I fought Russians,
[13:13] S
    not monster bears.
[13:15] A
    It'll be pitch-dark soon.
[13:18] A
    If you're not ready to fight,
[13:19] A
    then you should leave him here and go.
[13:23] A
    The weak get eaten.
[13:30] S
    I have an interesting story to tell you.
[13:43] S
    I still don't fully believe it,
[13:46] S
    but if what this man told me is true,
[13:48] S
    we can't let this corpse
    be eaten by the bear.
[13:51] S
    You're used to bear hunting.
[13:53] S
    Help me.
[13:56] S
    It was the last request from my
     best friend ever since I was a child.
[14:02] S
    I need money, no matter what.
[14:07] S
    Yeah...
[14:09] S
    I didn't believe it at first, either.
[14:12] A
    I believe you.
[14:13] S
    Really?
[14:15] A
    Because one of the slain Ainu was my father.
[14:20] S
    What?
[14:21] A
    We'll talk later.
[14:22] A
    Hurry, and gather firewood.
[14:28] S
    Do the bears fear fire?
[14:30] A
    No. Brown bears don't fear fire.
[14:33] A
    We'll use this light to shoot the bear.
[14:36] A
    We'll use the corpse as a decoy to ambush it.
[14:38] S
    Should I bring it closer to the flames, then?
[14:42] A
    Wait.
[14:45] A
    These tattoos...
[14:47] A
    I see, this is...
[14:48] S
    What is it?
[14:50] A
    How cruel.
[14:52] A
    He never intended to split the
    treasure with the prisoners.
[14:57] A
    Look.
[14:59] A
    The tattoos stretch around
    the chest and arms,
[15:01] A
    and they're all cut off at
    the body's median lines.
[15:04] A
    It's just like the lines you use
[15:06] A
    to mark the cuts you'll make when
     stripping the pelt from a deer or bear.
[15:10] S
    You're saying he planned to
    kill them and take their skins?
[15:15] S
    Who was it who carved these tattoos?
[15:19] S
    Why was he so obsessed with entrusting
    his comrades with the treasure?
[15:22] S
    Could we just skin him before the bear comes?
[15:25] A
    There's no time.
[15:27] A
    The bears always stay near their prey.
[15:29] S
    So we have to defeat the bear?
[15:32] A
    Once a brown bear kills someone,
[15:34] A
    as punishment, they can no longer
    eat anything but human flesh.
[15:37] A
    They become dangerous and
     evil gods who don't fear humans,
[15:40] A
    Wenkamuy.
[15:42] S
    They find out that the humans they
    feared are actually weak creatures.
[15:47] A
    The bear will come.
[15:49] A
    Keep the fire going, no matter what.
[15:50] A
    We can't fight if it's dark.
[15:52] A
    Once it gets light in the morning,
    we'll have the advantage.
[15:55] A
    Find sitat.
[15:57] S
    Find what?
[15:58] A
    White birch bark.
[16:00] A
    White birch bark is oily
    and burns for a long time.
[16:03] A
    You can use it as a torch.
[16:10] A
    Twelve hours until sunrise, huh?
[16:13] A
    We'll need more firewood.
[16:19] A
    It's huge!
[16:21] A
    Crap! It's already here!
[16:30] S
    Yeah, that wasn't going to work.
[16:32] A
    Get below it and cling to its belly!
[16:40] A
    It got him?
[16:41] A
    It's too dark to see anything,
[16:43] A
    but I know basically where it is.
[16:45] A
    Even if I don't hit its vitals,
[16:46] A
    if the poison gets into it...
[16:47] S
    Don't shoot! You'll hit me!
[16:50] A
    He's not dead yet!
[16:53] A
    I'll take the risk and shoot!
[16:54] S
    Wait! I'll handle this myself!
[16:57] S
    Just stay put while I stab you!
[17:13] S
    Wait! Don't run!
[17:22] S
    Ow!
[17:34] S
    A wild dog?
[17:37] A
    Retar...
[17:45] A
    From where you are,
     the heart is under the armpit!
[17:47] A
    Watch for the shoulder blade
    and aim carefully!
[17:59] S
    Just try and kill me!
[18:00] S
    I'm Immortal Sugimoto!
[18:19] A
    Hey, you alive, Sisam?
[18:22] S
    Yup.
[18:23] S
    Sheesh...
[18:24] S
    I survived again.
[18:26] A
    That's a particularly dangerous way of
    fighting bears that Ainu hunters used.
[18:32] A
    I'm surprised you knew of it.
[18:33] S
    I didn't!
[18:34] S
    My body just moved on its own.
[18:37] S
    Anyway, can you pull me out?
[18:39] A
    You have courage and a talent for battle.
[18:41] A
    You're a skilled warrior.
[18:43] A
    Not bad, for a Sisam.
[18:44] S
    Sisam?
[18:46] A
    A Japanese.
[18:48] S
    The name's Sugimoto Saichi.
[18:51] A
    Asirpa.
[18:54] S
    That huge white dog...
[18:57] S
    What was that?
[18:59] A
    It's over there.
[19:03] A
    That's a wolf.
[19:04] S
    A wolf?
[19:06] S
    There's still some left?
[19:08] S
    It seemed to be protecting you.
[19:18] A
    It happened five years ago.
[19:20] A
    My father and seven men from the village
    were killed while transporting the gold.
[19:26] A
    Their bodies were chopped up
     and fed to the beasts.
[19:31] A
    Some of the pieces seemed
    to be my father's.
[19:34] A
    That's all I know.
[19:37] A
    We were never even told that
    the man who'd killed my father
[19:39] A
    and the others was arrested
    and sent to Abashiri prison,
[19:44] A
    let alone anything about
    the tattooed prisoners.
[19:48] S
    Hey, Asirpa-san.
[19:51] S
    Let's work together to find the gold.
[19:53] S
    It belongs to you to begin with.
[19:55] S
    I won't ask for an even split.
[19:57] S
    Just give me a small share.
[19:59] A
    Find it how?
[20:01] S
    We'll find the tattooed prisoners.
[20:03] A
    And then?
[20:04] A
    Kill them and skin them?
[20:08] A
    This is yours.
[20:10] A
    Take it, Sugimoto.
[20:11] S
    What is it?
[20:13] A
    A bear's gall bladder.
[20:15] A
    If you dry it, you can sell it
    as a medicine for a lot of money.
[20:18] A
    No part of the bear goes to waste.
[20:20] A
    We can eat the meat, of course.
[20:22] A
    And we can sell the pelt and use
    the fat as salve for burns.
[20:25] A
    You killed it, so you have
    the right to all of it.
[20:28] S
    Half of it should be yours.
[20:31] A
    I'll be satisfied with just the mother bear.
[20:34] A
    This one killed and ate a person.
[20:36] A
    The Ainu don't eat the meat
    of a bear that killed someone.
[20:39] A
    We won't take its pelt, either.
[20:41] A
    Bears that do bad things become evil gods
[20:44] A
    and are sent to a hell
    called Teyne Pokna Mosir.
[20:49] A
    I don't want to kill people, either.
[20:52] S
    If you kill people, you go to hell?
[20:55] S
    Then I'll be getting first-class
    accommodations there.
[20:59] S
    The fact that the man with the tattoos
    was living in hiding means that
[21:02] S
    it's likely the gold hasn't been found yet.
[21:06] S
    Asirpa-san, the man who killed your father
    is probably still alive within the prison.
[21:12] S
    The government won't want him
    killed until they've found it.
[21:17] S
    But the minute someone finds the gold,
[21:21] S
    he ceases to be valuable.
[21:23] S
    Finding the gold is a way to
    avenge your father's death.
[21:31] S
    Asirpa-san, you agree with that.
     It's why you helped me, right?
[21:38] S
    I'll be the one to dirty my hands.
[21:40] S
    You just lend me your wisdom.
[21:43] S
    I want the money. You want
    revenge for your father.
[21:47] S
    We have different goals,
[21:48] S
    but the same path.
[21:50] S
    If we join forces,
[21:52] S
    we'll be unstoppable.
SIGN    Next Time
    Nopperabo
[23:35] ---
    Next time:
[23:37] ---
    "Nopperabo."