E27 - Igogusa

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SIGN    Karafuto Fox Raising Corporation
     Farm
[00:02] K
    I heard there was a place
    that'd buy sea lion meat.
[00:06] Man
    Foxes will eat anything.
[00:09] Man
    They can't get a balanced
    diet with just fish,
[00:11] Man
    so we mix beef and whale into their feed.
[00:15] Man
    Sea lion meat would be a great help.
[00:18] A
    They're all black.
[00:21] A
    These are mostly situnpekamuy.
[00:24] Man
    The ones with black fur and white
    stripes are called silver foxes.
[00:28] Man
    Their pelts are prized.
[00:30] S
    So you make a lot.
[00:32] S
    Great!
[00:34] K
    There was supposed to be a
    Karafuto Ainu village in this area.
[00:38] K
    Do you know where it went?
[00:39] Man
    This is the place.
[00:41] Man
    Twenty or thirty years ago,
     there was an Ainu village,
[00:44] Man
    but when we built the farm,
    it was already abandoned.
[00:50] A
    Did you know someone here?
[00:53] K
    Your father, Wilk, was born in the village here.
[01:02] K
    Wilk's mother and her mother, too.
[01:08] A
    Where did they all go?
[01:11] K
    Japan and Russia...
[01:12] K
    They disappeared, crushed between
     those two countries.
SIGN    Golden Kamuy
[01:20] K
    Years ago, Karafuto belonged
    to neither country.
SIGN    Episode Twenty-Seven
    Igogusa
[01:26] K
    Thirty years or so ago, in exchange for
    making Chishima Japanese territory,
[01:31] K
    the Japanese signed a treaty giving
    all of Karafuto over to the Russians.
[01:36] K
    The Japanese here quickly left.
[01:40] K
    Most of the Ainu in Wilk's village went
    with the Japanese ships to Hokkaido.
[01:47] K
    But since his mother was a
    Karafuto Ainu and his father Polish,
[01:54] K
    Wilk wasn't allowed on the ship.
[01:56] K
    He stayed with his parents in Karafuto.
[02:00] K
    But a plague struck the
    Ainu that went to Hokkaido.
[02:05] K
    Almost half died.
[02:09] K
    The surviving Ainu returned to Karafuto.
[02:14] K
    But I remember Wilk telling me
    that nobody returned to his village.
[02:20] K
    Neither Russia nor Japan gave a damn
    about them. And this was the result.
[02:25] K
    The Hokkaido Ainu will suffer the same fate.
[02:29] K
    But there's hope.
[02:32] K
    And Wilk saw that hope, that light, in you.
[02:36] A
    Then why did he betray and kill Ainu?!
[02:39] A
    Why did he steal the gold
    and try to entrust it to me?!
[02:45] K
    You'll find the answers here in Karafuto.
[02:50] K
    If you follow in your
    father's footsteps, you'll understand.
[03:08] O
    We confirmed that Nopperabo is Wilk.
[03:12] O
    Wilk left a code that only
    his daughter could solve.
[03:16] O
    Which means that the key to solving
    the code must be in Asirpa's brain.
[03:24] O
    Correct?
[03:26] O
    Even with all the tattooed skins, as long
    as we have her, nobody can find the gold.
[03:35] O
    And if we can learn the key ourselves,
    we'll be in an even better position.
[03:41] K
    She seems to have no idea.
[03:45] O
    She can't remember,
[03:47] O
    or perhaps, she's simply lying.
[03:52] K
    It's not a good idea to try
    to force it out of her.
[03:55] K
    If we want to get good information,
    she has to trust us.
[03:59] K
    And if this trip to Karafuto matures her,
[04:04] K
    she'll give us the key of her own free will.
SIGN    Abashiri
[04:09] T
    I heard you're not taking any meals at all.
[04:12] T
    That's not good, Nikaidou.
[04:15] Usami
    Ever since Lieutenant Tsurumi told
    him that Sugimoto was dead,
[04:19] Usami
    he's been an empty shell.
[04:20] Usami
    He won't come out of his futon.
SIGN    Morphine
[04:26] T
    Come on out, Nikaidou.
[04:29] T
    If you eat your meal, I'll give
     you morphine as a reward.
[04:34] Usami
    He showed his face!
[04:36] T
    Come on, eat.
[04:38] T
    Pick up those chopsticks!
[04:41] Usami
    Lieutenant Tsurumi,
    Nikaidou-dono lost his right hand.
[04:52] T
    I brought you a fork, Nikaidou.
[04:55] T
    Eat up and you can have some morphine.
[04:59] Usami
    He's looking at us!
[05:03] Usami
    He's coming out!
[05:05] Arisaka
    Tsurumi-kun!
[05:10] T
    Lieutenant General Arisaka!
[05:13] A
    I brought a present for Nikaidou!
[05:18] A
    A new hand!
[05:21] T
    Nikaidou, look!
[05:23] T
    This is a wonderful hand!
[05:27] Usami
    He's watching!
[05:29] T
    Lieutenant General Arisaka, this is
     no ordinary prosthetic, right?
[05:34] A
    Of course not!
[05:34] A
    It's got a neat trick!
[05:38] Usami
    He's staring!
[05:40] A
    Open the middle finger at the joint,
[05:44] A
    and there's a space to put chopsticks!
SIGN    Goodbye.
[06:01] RO
    Verneshsya v Yaponiyu — ya tebe golovu razobyu.
[06:05] G
    Your Russian is so good!
[06:07] G
    What did you say?
[06:10] Tsukishima
    I said that if you ever come back
    to Japan, I'll blow out your brains.
[06:15] Tsukishima
    You won't be coming home for a long while.
[06:17] Tsukishima
    Go study Russian like your
    life depended on it.
[06:27] Koito
    Was it right to let him go
    without talking to Lieutenant Tsurumi?
[06:31] Tsukishima
    I've been given full authority.
[06:36] Tsukishima
    That extends to you, as well, Sugimoto.
[06:42] Tsukishima
    If go berserk again, you won't be so lucky.
[06:52] Tsukishima
    Next time, I'll kill you.
[06:58] Tsukishima
    If you can't control yourself,
    someday you'll live to regret it.
SIGN    Meiji 29
    Army Prison
[07:17] Tsukishima
    Have you ever heard of igoneri?
[07:20] Tsukishima
    It's a traditional Niigata dish made
    from a seaweed called igogusa.
[07:24] T
    Yes, egogusa.
[07:27] T
    In Sado, it's "igo," not "ego."
[07:30] T
    You were born on the Niigata mainland,
     after all, Lieutenant Tsurumi.
[07:35] T
    Igogusa. Igogusa.
[07:38] T
    Her hair was very wavy.
[07:41] T
    The whole island nicknamed her "igogusa."
[07:45] T
    But I told her that I liked her hair.
[07:50] T
    She was the only one who'd call
    me by my given name, Hajime-chan.
[07:57] T
    "Monster." "Thug."
[08:00] T
    "Brat."
[08:03] T
    That's what the islanders called me.
[08:07] T
    The son of a murderer.
[08:11] T
    My father was something of
    an outcast on the island.
[08:13] T
    There were a lot of bad rumors about him.
[08:19] T
    The war with China started right after
    I joined the 2nd Division in Shibata.
[08:25] T
    "There's no place for me on this island,
    but when the war ends, I'll come back for you."
[08:33] T
    "And then we'll elope."
[08:37] T
    Around the time of the end of the war,
    her letters abruptly stopped coming.
[08:44] T
    I had a terrible premonition.
[08:46] T
    When I came home, the villagers
    looked at me as if I was a ghost.
[08:52] T
    We heard you died in the war, they said.
[08:56] T
    My premonition was correct.
[09:00] T
    Around 10 days before I came home,
[09:02] T
    she went missing.
[09:05] T
    Her sandals were found on the coast.
[09:11] T
    I searched for her every day, desperately,
[09:14] T
    thinking that perhaps she
    was somewhere on the rocks.
[09:23] T
    Each time I saw igogusa on the beach,
[09:26] T
    I shivered.
[09:29] T
    And in a moment of clarity, I wondered where
    the lie that I was dead had come from.
[09:38] T
    It was my father.
[09:42] T
    Years of pent-up rage exploded.
[09:46] T
    I knew from experience that
    he was the scum of the earth.
[09:52] T
    But how far would he go to ruin my life?
[09:58] T
    The next thing I knew, my father was
    snoring strangely in a pool of blood.
[10:05] T
    The damage I'd done to his brain was fatal.
[10:16] T
    I killed him before I could learn
    why he lied about my death.
[10:21] T
    But it doesn't matter.
[10:24] T
    I was sentenced to death for patricide.
[10:27] T
    But I managed to kill my
    shithead father and avenge her.
[10:32] T
    That's enough for me.
SIGN    Golden Kamuy
[10:54] T
    Egogusa-chan didn't kill herself.
[10:59] T
    Mitsubishi purchased the Sado
    mines earlier this year.
[11:04] T
    When one of their officers
    came to the island,
[11:06] T
    he took a liking to her and
    asked her to marry his son.
[11:09] T
    But the girl only cared about her Hajime-chan.
[11:13] T
    To her parents, it was a choice
    between a thug or a life of luxury.
[11:17] T
    They were desperate, I assume.
[11:19] T
    So they got the whole island in on the lie.
[11:23] T
    They paid your father to
    tell everyone you were dead.
[11:29] T
    And then faked her suicide so the
    thug wouldn't come to get her back.
[11:35] T
    They sent their daughter in secret
    to Tokyo, without telling her of the plot.
[11:42] T
    And then her parents went to Tokyo, too,
[11:45] T
    so there would never be a reason to return.
[11:48] T
    I spoke to her parents when she
    wasn't there, and they told me everything.
[11:55] T
    She gave me this.
[11:59] Tsukishima
    What's this?
[12:01] T
    She doesn't know you're alive.
[12:05] T
    But when I told her I was your
    commanding officer, she gave me this.
[12:12] T
    She said that if I knew where your
    were buried, I was to bury this alongside you.
[12:17] T
    Since you said you loved her hair.
[12:26] T
    Should I have told her about you?
[12:31] Tsukishima
    No.
[12:34] Tsukishima
    There's nothing I can do for her now.
[12:40] T
    Tsukishima...
[12:41] T
    You speak Russian well, don't you?
[12:46] Tsukishima
    No, not in the least.
[12:50] T
    Japan is about to start a war with Russia.
[12:53] T
    But we have a dire lack of Russian interpreters.
[12:57] T
    A man like you, with such
    fluent Russian, would be prized highly.
[13:02] T
    The very nation is in danger, after all.
[13:06] T
    I'm transferring to the 7th Division.
[13:09] T
    To the special organization in Tsukisappu.
[13:12] T
    I'm going to Russia as an information officer.
[13:15] T
    You're a trustworthy Russian interpreter,
    and a former subordinate,
[13:18] T
    so you'll be going with me.
[13:19] Tsukishima
    Wait, I don't speak a word of Russian!
[13:22] Tsukishima
    I'm a death row prisoner!
[13:24] T
    Then study like your life depends on it!
SIGN    Nine Years Later
SIGN    Russo-Japanese War: Mukden
[13:48] Man
    Are you Tsukishima Hajime?
[13:55] Man
    I was born in Sado.
[13:57] Man
    Everybody in my generation knows about you.
[14:01] Man
    I heard you were sentenced to death.
[14:03] Man
    What are you doing here?
[14:05] Tsukishima
    Who can say?
[14:08] Man
    You spent days looking for
    her on the coast, right?
[14:13] Man
    Did you know they found her
    right after you got arrested?
[14:21] Tsukishima
    They found her?
[14:24] Man
    They found the body.
[14:30] Tsukishima
    Lieutenant Tsurumi!
[14:32] Tsukishima
    You lied to me!
[14:39] Maeyama
    Sergeant Tsukishima!
[14:41] Maeyama
    What's wrong?
[14:42] Tamai
    Grab him!
[14:44] Tamai
    Stop it!
[14:45] Tsukishima
    Why the hell were her bones
    found under my dad's house?
[14:50] (Flashback) Man
    The whole village saw them being dug up.
[14:54] Tsukishima
    My dad killed her?
[14:56] Tsukishima
    Did you take that hair from her corpse?
[14:59] Tsukishima
    Have you been lying to me for nine years?
[15:03] Tamai
    Tsukishima, calm down!
[15:06] T
    It was because you'd accepted
    your death sentence.
[15:12] T
    Leave us.
[15:20] T
    When you thought Egogusa-chan was alive,
    it made you less willing to die.
[15:27] Tsukishima
    So I'm supposed to say thank you?
[15:30] T
    That father of yours wasn't
    worth losing your life over.
[15:35] T
    I wanted to save you, no matter what.
[15:39] T
    You were a fine soldier.
    A man from my homeland.
[15:43] T
    A man I could trust.
[15:45] T
    And... a comrade-in-arms.
[15:52] Tsukishima
    I didn't want you to use her to deceive me...
[15:59] T
    Let me finish.
[16:02] T
    Tsukishima, do you think that your
    Russian got you out of death row?
[16:18] Man
    Get into the bunker!
[16:23] Tsukishima
    Get down!
[16:42] (Flashback) Tsukishima
    I love the way you call me by my name.
[16:45] (Flashback) Tsukishima
    I love your hair.
[16:48] (Flashback) Tsukishima
    I'll beat up anyone who makes fun of your hair.
[16:52] (Flashback) Girl
    That's why the villagers
    don't like you, you know?
[17:03] Men
    Press down on the wound!
[17:04] Men
    Somebody get a stretcher!
[17:06] Men
    Lieutenant Tsurumi!
[17:10] (Flashback) T
    As long as Manchuria is Japanese territory,
    your bones will rest in Japan.
[17:18] (Flashback) T
    And to protect those bones,
    we'll run like madmen.
[17:26] T
    Tsukishima!
[17:29] Tsukishima
    Lieutenant Tsurumi...
[17:33] T
    Tsukishima? You alive?
[17:40] Tsukishima
    I'm not sure, sir.
[17:47] Man
    There's a field hospital on the
    other side of the frozen river!
[17:50] Man
    Our combat engineers should
    have made us sleds!
[17:52] Man
    Where are they?
[17:54] Man
    Over there!
[17:55] Man
    There's still more!
[17:57] Tamai
    Just one...
[17:59] Tamai
    Put Lieutenant Tsurumi on!
[18:01] Sugimoto
    Use this one.
[18:04] Nikaidou
    You're sure?
[18:07] Sugitomo
    He told me to prioritize lives
    that could actually be saved.
[18:12] All
    Go! Go! Go!
[18:15] All
    Go! Go! Go!
[18:33] T
    Don't you think it's a little too convenient
    that your father killed Egogusa-chan?
[18:44] T
    But it was effective, in the end.
[18:47] T
    There wasn't quite enough
    there to make your father out
[18:50] T
    to be an unforgivable monster,
[18:51] T
    so I dug up bones from beneath your
    home in front of the whole village.
[18:57] T
    It was a way to get you out
    of jail without a trial.
[19:02] T
    A monster of a father, abusive and
     with a history of murder,
[19:10] T
    kills his son's fiancée and makes
    it look like a suicide while he's off to war.
[19:15] T
    His enraged son beats him,
    but never intended to kill him.
[19:19] T
    That's the story I managed
    to make the brass believe.
[19:23] T
    The villagers never forgot the
    lies I told them nine years ago.
[19:32] T
    And by chance, nine years later, a man from
    Sado told you those lies here in Mukden.
[19:40] T
    Your father lost whatever honor he had,
    but in the end, he was of use to you.
[19:48] T
    I never submitted a report of her death.
[19:51] T
    Her family register remains untouched.
[19:53] T
    It won't disturb her life in Tokyo.
[19:58] Girl
    Hajime-chan...
[20:03] Tsukishima
    Oh.
[20:06] Tsukishima
    I see.
[20:08] T
    The war will end soon.
[20:11] T
    And when it does, our plan will begin!
[20:18] Tsukishima
    The Ainu?
[20:21] T
    I need men of resolve!
[20:25] T
    Men with the resolve to do the
    most revolting things imaginable!
[20:30] T
    We'll be heading into the
    lowest levels of hell!
[20:36] T
    You're the only one I can trust, Tsukishima!
[20:40] T
    You thought I'd lied to you, but still
     you risked your life for me.
[20:47] Tsukishima
    You saved my life.
[20:50] Tsukishima
    I intend to use the rest of it in your service.
[20:53] Tsukishima
    And for those who died, too.
[21:02] T
    I'm glad I was able to hear
    those words from you now.
SIGN    Otaru
[21:49] T
    I had it made of porcelain enamel.
[21:53] T
    Well?
[21:55] T
    Do you like the look?
SIGN    Next Time
    The Immortal Sugimoto Harakiri Show
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