E18 - Ani Nekko

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[00:20] Gu
    Looks like they're nowhere near us.
[00:24] Gu
    I guess that weather was
    too much even for the 7th.
[00:28] Gu
    I can't see them just giving
    up and going home, though.
[00:32] ---
    They'll be expecting us to head
    down the mountain towards Abashiri.
SIGN    Otaru
SIGN    Asahikawa
SIGN    Daisetsuzan Volcanic Group
SIGN    Tokachi Region
SIGN    Kushiro
SIGN    Abashiri
[00:37] ---
    We'll do what they're not expecting,
    head toward Tokachi, and shake them off.
[00:41] Gi
    Let's do it.
[00:42] Gi
    We told Kiroranke Nispa and the others
    to meet in Abashiri if we got separated.
[00:50] Gu
    I sent a telegram to Otaru to check
    on Huci when we left Yuubari.
SIGN    Hitomai Post Office
[00:57] Gu
    We should get the answer
    here at this post office.
[01:00] Gu
    From who?
[01:02] Gu
    Asirpa's uncle.
[01:04] Gu
    He used to work with the Japanese,
[01:06] Gu
    so he knows how to read and write a little.
[01:11] Gu
    What does it say?
[01:13] Gu
    "Huci making raikurushiyuku."
[01:17] Gu
    What's "raikurushiyuku"?
[01:19] Gi
    Raykur Siyuk... a burial shroud.
[01:25] Gi
    When an elderly Ainu
    knows that death is near,
[01:28] Gi
    they prepare their own
    burial shroud in secret.
[01:34] Gu
    Why did you say that?
[01:37] Gi
    I just told her what the spirits told me.
[01:41] Gi
    There is a traitor near Asirpa-san.
[01:46] Gu
    I don't want Huci to die.
[01:49] Gu
    She fed me. She said the
    Ainu care for children.
[01:55] Gu
    She says you can't go to the
    next world without kids.
[01:59] Gi
    When an Ainu dies,
[02:01] Gi
    those left behind must perform a ritual
    before they can pass on to the afterlife.
[02:09] Gi
    So they'll raise any child,
[02:11] Gi
    even one not their own.
[02:17] Gu
    Cikapasi, don't worry.
[02:20] Gu
    I'll bring Asirpa back
    safe and cheer up Huci.
[02:25] Gu
    That's my job.
[02:29] Gu
    She fed me, too, so I'm one of her kids.
[02:33] Gu
    No way. You're her gigolo, Tanigaki Nispa.
[02:37] Gi
    He sure is.
[02:50] Gu
    The role in life I've been looking for...
SIGN    Golden Kamuy
SIGN    Several Months Ago
[04:33] Gu
    Lt. Tsurumi, have you ever heard
    of a food called kanemochi?
[04:38] Gu
    It's a portable emergency
    ration we Ani Matagi use.
[04:41] Gu
    We make one shaped like a ball
    and one shaped like an oval,
[04:44] Gu
    and take both into the mountains with us.
[04:46] Gu
    Supposedly the round one is the
    sun and the oval one is the moon.
SIGN    Episode Eighteen
    Ani Nekko
[04:51] Gu
    Kanemochi, huh? I've never heard of it.
[04:55] Gu
    How's it taste? No different
    than other mochi?
[04:58] Gu
    We add water to rice powder,
[05:00] Gu
    then mix in miso or salt.
[05:02] Gu
    Knead thoroughly, wrap in a leaf,
[05:04] Gu
    and then bake in a covered
    pan in the ashes of the hearth.
[05:08] Gu
    Tozawa Matagi, by the way, are forbidden
     from adding miso to their kanemochi.
[05:12] Gu
    So each village has its own rules, huh?
[05:17] Gu
    My dad was a very stern
    and uncompromising man,
[05:20] Gu
    so I never told anybody,
[05:22] Gu
    but I actually did something a
    little special to my own kanemochi.
[05:28] Gu
    But one day another Matagi found out.
[05:34] Gu
    How?
[05:35] Gu
    We were hunting a wild goat
    we Matagi call an "aoshishi."
[05:42] Gu
    Matagi travel in small groups,
     and each member has a different role
[05:45] Gu
    to play in the hunt.
SIGN    Ani
[05:49] Gu
    There's a scout called a mukaimatte
    who gives orders to the whole group.
[05:53] Gu
    Then two riflemen called matsumai.
[05:56] Gu
    And two seko who aren't
     allowed to use guns yet.
[05:59] Gu
    The seko's job is to shout and drive
    the prey into the riflemen's sights.
[06:08] Gu
    The bears that the Matagi call itazu have
    a tendency to run uphill into the mountains.
[06:13] Gu
    So the seko drive them toward the peak.
[06:16] Gu
    But the aoshishi are the opposite.
[06:17] Gu
    We try to drive them away from the peaks.
[06:19] Gu
    I was a seko, out with a boy a year
    older than me named Aoyama Kenkichi.
[06:24] Gu
    When we got to the peak,
     the weather suddenly changed.
[06:31] Gu
    We sought refuge in a cave,
[06:34] Gu
    but the blizzard continued,
    trapping us for days.
[06:38] Gu
    The beans and rice we'd
    brought quickly ran out.
[06:43] Gu
    The kanemochi serves as the last
    meal you can eat at times like that.
[06:47] Gu
    No matter how cold it gets,
     it doesn't freeze, and it never spoils.
[06:51] Gu
    And just nibbling a little fills you up.
[06:58] (Flashback) Gu
    Ken...
[07:02] (Flashback) Gu
    What?
[07:04] (Flashback) Gu
    I was just thinking this
    might be our last meal.
[07:08] (Flashback) Gu
    Hell no.
[07:10] (Flashback) Gu
    I'm surviving, even if I have
    to cook and eat you.
[07:18] (Flashback) Gu
    Hey, did you mix something
    in to this kanemochi?
[07:23] (Flashback) Gu
    What is this?
[07:25] (Flashback) Gu
    Wait. Don't tell me.
[07:27] (Flashback) Gu
    I'll guess.
[07:29] (Flashback) Gu
    It's...
[07:33] (Flashback) Gu
    I know! Walnuts!
[07:35] (Flashback) Gu
    You put walnuts into it, Genjirou.
[07:37] (Flashback) Gu
    Yup. But don't tell my dad, Kenkichi.
[07:46] (Flashback) Gu
    Hey, Genjirou...
[07:51] (Flashback) Gu
    We're getting out of this alive.
[07:55] (Flashback) Gu
    Yeah.
[08:09] Gu
    After that, Kenkichi married
    my younger sister, Fumi,
[08:14] Gu
    and we became in-laws.
[08:16] Gu
    I see.
[08:19] Gu
    Fumi and Kenkichi lived quietly a ways
    up on a mountain, away from the village.
[08:30] Gu
    On that day, I was making kanemochi at home.
[08:35] Gu
    My brother came in from outside, with a look
    on his face like I'd never seen before.
[08:42] (Flashback) Gu
    Fumi is...!
[08:43] Gu
    When I saw the panic in his eyes, I felt
    like I'd been stabbed with an icicle.
[08:51] Gu
    By the time I arrived, the little hut
    where the two of them lived was already...
[09:09] Gu
    Inside, I found her body burnt to a crisp.
[09:13] (Flashback) Gu
    Why?
[09:17] (Flashback) Gu
    What happened? What happened?!
[09:19] (Flashback) Gu
    Fumi!
[09:24] Gu
    There was a stab wound in her heart.
[09:32] Gu
    And next to her, Kenkichi's masuke.
[09:37] Gu
    The short blade we call a masuke
    is the soul of a Matagi.
[09:42] Gu
    Kenkichi was nowhere to be found.
[09:49] (Flashback) Gu
    Where the hell is Kenkichi?
[09:50] (Flashback) Gu
    Our son has never come back
    here! Please don't hurt us!
[09:54] (Flashback) Gu
    You're not hiding him, are you?
[09:59] Gu
    I searched everywhere for him,
     but never found him.
[10:04] Gu
    But one day, I heard a rumor that
    he'd joined the 7th in Hokkaido.
[10:14] (Flashback) Gu
    Give it up, Genjirou.
    Don't abandon Ani for revenge.
[10:19] (Flashback) Gu
    Don't waste your life.
[10:27] (Flashback) Gu
    I can't give up after he killed my sister!
[10:30] (Flashback) Gu
    Screw being a Matagi. I'm never going back.
[10:35] Gu
    There were 37 Tondenhei villages in Hokkaido.
[10:40] Gu
    Between my military training
    and the farming I did,
[10:43] Gu
    I looked for Kenkichi, but had no luck.
[10:50] Gu
    Just before we left for war,
[10:52] Gu
    my brother sent me a message
    telling me my mother was dead.
[10:56] Gu
    Fumi's brutal death. The fact that I'd
    abandoned my homeland to go to war.
[11:01] Gu
    The two of them were too much for her
    frail heart. She quickly became sick and died.
[11:10] Gu
    My hatred swelled as I told myself
    Kenkichi was responsible for everything.
[11:16] Gu
    If I went to Port Arthur, where the soldiers
    from Hokkaido were gathering,
[11:18] Gu
    I could find Kenkichi.
[11:21] Gu
    And when I found him, I'd wait for my
    chance in the middle of the battle,
[11:25] Gu
    and shoot him from behind!
SIGN    Golden Kamuy
SIGN    Lushun
[11:48] Gu
    I saw a haggard man sitting in the
    corner of one of the trenches.
[11:53] Gu
    His face was so covered in blood,
[11:56] Gu
    either his own or that of an enemy,
    that I couldn't make it out, but...
[11:59] (Flashback) Gu
    A white sash...
[12:02] Gu
    This man is a survivor of
    last night's suicide charge!
[12:07] Gu
    I'm amazed he survived.
[12:10] (Flashback) Gu
    Got any food?
[12:15] (Flashback) Gu
    Y-Yeah.
[12:16] (Flashback) Gu
    Eat.
[12:20] (Flashback) Gu
    Thanks.
[12:21] (Flashback) Gu
    I appreciate it.
[12:26] (Flashback) Gu
    It's got a firm texture. Is this... mochi?
[12:29] (Flashback) Gu
    I taste miso. Is it some kind of Akita dish?
[12:35] (Flashback) Gu
    How did you know it was Akita?
[12:36] (Flashback) Gu
    I knew it.
[12:38] (Flashback) Gu
    The way you said "eat" just now.
[12:41] (Flashback) Gu
    That's Akita dialect, right?
[12:44] (Flashback) Gu
    There was a private in the
    1st Division, where I'm from,
[12:46] (Flashback) Gu
    who was from a place called Ani in Akita.
[12:50] (Flashback) Gu
    He told me about it.
[12:52] (Flashback) Gu
    He said he was a hunter back
    home before he came to Tokyo.
[12:57] Gu
    It was Kenkichi.
[13:00] Gu
    I'd finally found my sister's killer.
[13:05] Gu
    He'd gone to Tokyo, not Hokkaido.
[13:10] Gu
    The soldiers at Hill 203 were from
    the Hokkaido 7th, the Shikoku 11th,
[13:18] Gu
    the Kanazawa 9th, and the Tokyo 1st.
[13:23] Gu
    Yes.
[13:25] Gu
    The gods had helped me
    find my sister's killer.
[13:29] Gu
    That's how it felt to me.
[13:32] Gu
    I wanted to go find him immediately,
[13:35] Gu
    but I knew if I saw him, I'd lose control.
[13:40] Gu
    I still had the mental
    calmness left to want to
[13:41] Gu
    bring an end to this journey of
    revenge in the middle of a battle,
[13:44] Gu
    where I wouldn't be caught.
[13:47] Gu
    But that hill...
[13:49] Gu
    ...wasn't the sort of place where I'd
    have time to look for Kenkichi.
[14:05] Gu
    The Russians threw grenades,
    and we threw them right back.
[14:13] Gu
    As we began to push them
    back further and further,
[14:16] Gu
    they tied grenades to their bodies
    and jumped into our trenches.
[14:22] Gu
    That was rough.
[14:24] Gu
    One Russian would take out ten of us.
[14:30] Gu
    And then another came.
[14:31] (Flashback) Gu
    Stop him!
[14:34] Gu
    Two or three hits from a Type 30
     didn't even slow him down.
[14:40] Gu
    And then a lone man came running
    out of one of the trenches.
[14:52] Gu
    Kenkichi!
[15:03] Gu
    Kenkichi just barely survived.
[15:10] Gu
    At last, the moment I'd
    been waiting for was here.
[15:15] Gu
    That's how it seemed to me.
[15:17] (Flashback) Gu
    Kenkichi, I finally found you!
[15:21] (Flashback) Gu
    I'll stab you in the heart,
    just like you did to Fumi!
[15:28] (Flashback) Gu
    Tanigaki, he's done for.
[15:30] (Flashback) Gu
    He can't even hear you.
[15:32] (Flashback) Gu
    His eardrums have probably been destroyed!
[15:43] (Flashback) Gu
    Fumi...
[15:56] Gu
    The battle had just reached a stalemate,
    and the whole place became strangely quiet.
[16:06] (Flashback) Gu
    Why? Why'd you kill Fumi, Kenkichi?
[16:11] (Flashback) Gu
    Wh-Who are you?
[16:18] (Flashback) Gu
    I don't know who you are.
[16:21] (Flashback) Gu
    But I want you to take a message...
[16:24] (Flashback) Gu
    ...to a man named Tanigaki
     in Ani, up in Akita.
[16:31] (Flashback) Gu
    I married the Tanigaki family's daughter.
[16:37] (Flashback) Gu
    She was so beautiful. Far too good for me.
[16:43] (Flashback) Gu
    The two of us lived quietly,
    deep in the mountains.
[16:48] (Flashback) Gu
    One day, she became sick with smallpox.
[16:55] (Flashback) Gu
    Don't tell my mom or dad.
[17:00] (Flashback) Gu
    Fumi!
[17:02] (Flashback) Gu
    If you do, they'll get worried and come here.
[17:07] (Flashback) Gu
    And if it spreads to them...
[17:09] (Flashback) Gu
    Fumi!
[17:11] (Flashback) Gu
    You can't stay here, either.
[17:14] (Flashback) Gu
    Wh-What are you saying?
[17:17] (Flashback) Gu
    We'll die together!
[17:21] (Flashback) Gu
    When a member of a mountain
    family catches smallpox,
[17:24] (Flashback) Gu
    we abandon that family
    member so it won't spread.
[17:28] (Flashback) Gu
    But I couldn't do it.
[17:32] (Flashback) Gu
    I'd heard a story about animals finding
    their way into an abandoned home,
[17:36] (Flashback) Gu
    and killing the defenseless
     sick people inside.
[17:42] (Flashback) Gu
    I couldn't let her die alone.
[17:47] (Flashback) Gu
    But she refused to allow it.
[17:51] (Flashback) Gu
    If it was found out that one
    of the Tanigakis got smallpox,
[17:55] (Flashback) Gu
    the rest of the village would shun them.
[17:59] (Flashback) Gu
    The other Matagi would refuse to
    hunt with the rest of her family.
[18:05] (Flashback) Gu
    She wanted me to kill her and leave
    the village before anyone found out.
[18:16] (Flashback) Gu
    She covered her pox-riddled
    face with a cloth, and said to me...
[18:23] (Flashback) Gu
    If it doesn't spread to you,
[18:26] (Flashback) Gu
    you must decide how to spend
    the rest of your life.
[18:33] (Flashback) Gu
    Find your role in life.
[18:37] (Flashback) Gu
    Fumi...
[18:41] (Flashback) Gu
    And at last, I...
[18:47] (Flashback) Gu
    The two of us both thought of a way for
    her to suffer as little as possible.
[18:52] (Flashback) Gu
    I am a hunter, so I used
    the method I knew best.
[19:03] (Flashback) Gu
    Just like Fumi told me,
    I burned down our home,
[19:07] (Flashback) Gu
    and left the village without
    telling her family about her death.
[19:14] (Flashback) Gu
    I've spent the rest of my life
    bearing the guilt of killing her.
[19:22] (Flashback) Gu
    My actions have caused
    great pain to her family.
[19:28] (Flashback) Gu
    If I can heal those wounds in any way...
[19:33] (Flashback) Gu
    Please.
[19:34] (Flashback) Gu
    Please, tell this story
    to Tanigaki-sama in Ani, Akita.
[19:55] (Flashback) Gu
    Kanemochi with walnuts...
[20:00] (Flashback) Gu
    Genjirou, is that you?
[20:06] Gu
    And then, he died.
[20:14] Gu
    Kenkichi found his role in life,
[20:18] Gu
    and spent the rest of
    his days carrying it out.
[20:20] Gu
    Every day I ask myself,
    what is my role in life?
[20:26] Gu
    I can't go back to Ani now.
[20:29] Gu
    I can't face my brother or father.
[20:33] Gu
    Tanigaki...
[20:35] Gu
    I need you.
[20:42] Gu
    First, will you start by making me
[20:45] Gu
    some of these kanemochi with walnuts?
[20:53] Gu
    Of course.
SIGN    Kushiro Marsh
[21:09] Gu
    Hey, look at that.
[21:12] Gu
    Somebody's dancing all the way out there.
[21:14] Gu
    Isn't that Asirpa?
[21:27] Gu
    This is a dance from Kushiro, huh?
[21:30] Gu
    The sarorunrimse...
[21:31] Gu
    The crane dance.
[21:41] Gu
    Somebody's coming.
[21:49] Gu
    Look! I knew it, it's Asirpa!
[21:53] Gu
    Cikapasi and Cironnup...
[21:55] Gu
    And Tanigaki.
[21:59] Gu
    How?
SIGN    Next Time:
    Kamuy Hopunire
[23:36] ---
    Next Time: "Kamuy Hopunire."