# 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
**[23:35] ---**
Next Time: "The Immortal
Sugimoto Harakiri Show"!