# 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."