E31 - Meko Oyasi

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[00:05] ---
    Toh! Toh! Toh!
[00:08] S
    Keep going!
[00:10] Ko
    The weather's turned bad suddenly!
[00:13] T
    We need to get somewhere safe now!
[00:19] S
    I can't even see anymore!
[00:24] S
    Ryu, what are you doing?
[00:26] S
    Stay in formation!
[00:28] T
    You don't think he's spotted something?
[00:30] S
    Ryu was never cut out to pull a sled!
[00:33] S
    He's a hunting dog!
[00:37] S
    Ryu!
[00:38] S
    Where are you going?
[00:39] S
    Go straight!
[00:44] A
    Henke says he see something!
[00:47] Ts
    Stop the sled!
[00:48] Ts
    The others aren't with us!
[00:55] Ts
    Sugimoto!
[00:59] K
    Was that a gunshot?
[01:01] K
    Did we get separated?
[01:04] K
    Where did the gunshot come from?
[01:06] Ch
    I think that way!
[01:16] Ts
    Did you hear something?
[01:19] Koito
    What?
[01:24] S
    It's no good!
[01:25] S
    We need to find shelter somewhere!
[01:27] S
    We need to at least... find a
    place to get away from the wind.
[01:38] S
    What? We came all the way to the coast?
[01:43] S
    That's not good.
[01:44] S
    We need to do something...
[01:46] S
    Or we're dead!
SIGN    Golden Kamuy
SIGN    Episode Thirty-One
    Meko Oyasi
[03:26] S
    Damn it!
[03:29] ---
    The ground... is frozen solid.
[03:34] T
    We'll just need to do something.
[03:36] T
    Destroy the sled.
[03:41] K
    Tsukishima, we're in real danger here!
[03:48] Ts
    Let's go!
[03:49] Ts
    We'll head to that building
    they said they saw!
[03:57] S
    Yes!
[04:01] S
    Hey, what are you doing?
[04:04] Tanigaki
    A sled's worth of firewood
    won't last long at all.
[04:08] Tanigaki
    But if we bury it,
    it'll burn slowly in the Earth.
[04:12] Tanigaki
    If we lie down on it, we can
    stay warm a little longer.
[04:17] S
    That's right Tanigaki, you're a Matagi.
[04:20] Tanigaki
    But the hole's not deep enough.
[04:22] Tanigaki
    It won't serve to do much
    but keep off the wind.
[04:24] Tanigaki
    You guys! Come here!
[04:30] S
    It's a Karafuto dog blanket.
[04:35] Ci
    Will the dogs be okay?
[04:38] Ta
    They're fine. They handle the cold well.
[04:43] Ta
    The question is, how long will we last?
[04:47] Ta
    The sun will set soon.
[04:51] Koito
    There're cows here, Tsukishima!
[04:54] Koito
    Someone lives here!
[04:56] Ts
    Let's worry about finding the
    person who lives here later.
[04:58] Ts
    For now, let's start a fire.
[05:00] Koito
    What about the others?
[05:02] Ts
    With Tanigaki with them,
[05:05] Ts
    they should be okay for a while...
[05:12] ---
    Here.
[05:13] Ta
    There's not much,
[05:15] Ta
    but eating makes a big difference when
    trying to maintain your temperature.
[05:19] Ta
    Open your mouth. Here.
[05:24] S
    I feel like I've had this before.
[05:29] Ta
    That's impossible.
[05:31] Ta
    This is a secret recipe for mochi
    from the place where I grew up,
[05:34] Ta
    and I've also adjusted the flavoring a little.
[05:37] S
    Yeah?
[05:40] S
    That's strange.
[05:42] S
    I remember eating this...
[05:51] S
    Was that a gunshot?
[05:52] S
    Or thunder?
[05:54] Ta
    In the middle of a blizzard, you can be
    shouting at each other and still get lost.
[06:02] Ta
    You can't trust your sense of direction here.
SIGN    What's wrong?
SIGN    What are you doing there?
[06:15] K
    The man who lives here?
SIGN    Our friends are lost nearby!
SIGN    Come with me!
SIGN    This way! Hurry!!
SIGN    This way! Hurry!!
SIGN    We haven't used this for a while. The inside is sooty, so wipe it clean.
[06:52] Ts
    What's this?
[06:55] Ta
    Being in this cold hole
    reminds me of the trenches.
[07:04] Ta
    Don't go to sleep, Sugimoto.
[07:07] Ta
    You'll die.
[07:09] S
    Yeah.
[07:13] S
    It's cold.
[07:20] (Flashback) S
    It's cold, Toraji.
[07:23] (Flashback) Toraji
    I want to go home, Saichi.
[07:31] (Flashback) Toraji
    I want to go home.
[07:59] ---
    ...imoto.
[08:04] S
    Asirpa-san...
[08:06] A
    Sugimoto.
[08:16] S
    Light...
[08:20] S
    Hey, can you see that light?
[08:23] S
    Is it the moon?
[08:24] Ta
    No. It's been exactly two months
    since we attacked Abashiri.
[08:29] Ta
    The moon shouldn't be that big.
[08:32] S
    It's shining...
[08:34] S
    That's not moonlight.
[08:36] S
    That's...
[08:38] S
    A lighthouse!
[08:41] Ts
    Lieutenant...
[08:42] Ts
    Lieutenant Koito.
[08:44] Ts
    Please don't wander around
    in front of the lens.
[08:47] Ts
    You're blocking the light.
SIGN    Tsuru
[09:06] K
    This "sushka" goes very well with tea.
[09:12] K
    I'd love to have Lieutenant Tsurumi try it.
SIGN    This way.
[09:20] Ts
    The warmest spot in this
    room is above the pechka.
[09:24] Ts
    The Russians sleep there, too.
[09:28] Koito
    They look like bugs.
[09:33] Ts
    You got lucky.
[09:37] Ts
    This lighthouse hasn't been used
    since the Russo-Japanese War.
[09:41] Ts
    And if these people weren't here,
    you'd be frozen solid right now.
SIGN    Thank you!
[09:58] S
    Sorry for burning your sled.
[10:04] S
    You're done?
[10:04] S
    Wow, and you just made this
    with what was lying around!
[10:07] S
    This is amazing!
[10:08] S
    Amazing, Henke!
[10:10] Ts
    Okay, now we can go!
[10:13] Ts
    Looking back, I think the reason
    Ryu broke off from the line
[10:18] Ts
    was that he was trying to
    stay with the other sled.
[10:22] S
    Sorry for doubting you.
[10:24] S
    You're a great dog.
[10:27] S
    You can be a great sled dog, too!
[10:32] Koito
    Tsukishima, the hammer froze to my hand!
[10:36] Ts
    That's what'll happen if you touch
    metal bare-handed at this temperature.
[10:39] Ts
    If you try to rip it off,
    it'll tear away the skin on your hand.
[10:44] Ts
    Somebody piss on it to melt it.
[10:49] S
    I can do it.
[10:57] S
    Show me your hand.
[11:10] S
    What's this soup?
[11:12] S
    It's bright red!
[11:14] Ts
    This is borscht.
[11:16] Ts
    The red comes from a vegetable called a "beet."
[11:19] Chi
    What's Russian for "yummy"?
[11:23] Ts
    Vkusno.
[11:24] Chi
    Vkusno!
[11:25] Ts
    Vkusno.
[11:26] Chi
    Vkusno!
[11:28] ---
    
[11:32] Ts
    It's normally just the two of them,
    so they're happy to have the company.
[11:36] S
    You don't have any family?
[11:39] Koi
    Is that your daughter in that photo?
[11:45] S
    What's wrong?
[11:47] ---
    
[11:51] Ts
    The three of us lived here in peace,
    watching the lighthouse, since before the war.
[11:59] Ts
    But one day, a Russian deserter
    appeared and lived here for a while.
[12:06] Ts
    He took away their only daughter.
[12:12] Ts
    They searched for her, but didn't find her.
[12:16] Ts
    The military and government did nothing.
[12:21] Ts
    When the Japanese landed in Karafuto,
[12:25] Ts
    the Russian government had given them
    explosives to destroy the lighthouse,
[12:29] Ts
    to keep it from being used by the Japanese.
[12:32] Ts
    But when the Japanese army came,
[12:34] Ts
    they were so angry at the Russian
    government that they handed it over.
[12:38] Ts
    Later, another lighthouse
    was built to the north,
[12:41] Ts
    and there was no need for this place.
[12:44] Ts
    But the two of them stay here and
    wait for their daughter's return.
[12:59] S
    So because of what happened with
    their daughter, the lighthouse remained,
[13:03] S
    and our lives were saved, huh?
[13:08] S
    Can I take a photo of your daughter?
[13:15] S
    What's her name?
SIGN    Svetlana.
SIGN    Thank you for everything!
SIGN    Please!
SIGN    Please find our daughter! Find Svetlana!
[13:32] Ts
    Hey, Sugimoto.
[13:35] S
    I know.
[13:36] S
    It won't take too much time
    to ask around on our travels.
[13:40] S
    I can't leave without
    doing nothing in return.
[13:43] S
    Ma'am, please put this photo
    of mine in that empty frame.
[13:48] S
    If this Ainu girls comes by,
    tell her that Saichi Sugimoto is alive.
[13:57] S
    Okay, go!
[14:00] ---
    Toh! Toh! Toh!
SIGN    Golden Kamuy
[14:20] S
    Asirpa.
[14:21] S
    Asirpa.
SIGN    Never seen her.
[14:24] S
    Okay...
[14:26] S
    What about her?
SIGN    Never seen her.
[14:30] Narr
    Sugimoto's group was staying at a
    Karafuto Ainu village near Niitoi.
SIGN    Border
SIGN    Sugimoto's Position
[14:37] Narr
    There were only 140 kilometers
    left until the border.
[14:42] A
    Cikapasi, listen!
[14:44] A
    There was a meko oyasi sighted
    in this village a while ago!
[14:47] C
    What's that? Is it scary?
[14:50] A
    A cat monster found in the
    legends of the Karafuto Ainu!
[14:55] A
    Someone dropped all their stuff
    on the beach and went to work,
[14:58] A
    and a meko oyasi appeared!
[15:01] A
    They fled on their ship, and a bunch
    of the things appeared on the beach!
[15:05] A
    They were staring at the ship and howling!
[15:10] A
    A big cat the size of a dog,
    with red and white spots!
[15:15] T
    A large mountain cat.
[15:19] Koito
    Sure it's not Ogata Hyakunosuke?
[15:21] T
    Why Ogata?
[15:26] Koito
    The child of a mountain cat
     is a mountain cat.
[15:30] S
    What's that mean?
[15:32] T
    "Mountain cat" is slang for geisha.
[15:36] T
    It's a dumb joke the men in
    the division used to tell.
[15:40] S
    That really is dumb.
[15:43] Koito
    Given his personality,
    a lot of men didn't like him.
[15:47] Koito
    I hate him.
[15:50] Koito
    "Mountain cat" also means
    to con or deceive somebody.
[15:56] Koito
    Sounds perfect for him, right?
[15:59] Koito
    Or am I wrong, Sugimoto?
[16:03] Cikapasi
    What happened to the meko oyasi?
[16:07] A
    They came back later, and there were lots
    of paw prints, and all their stuff was gone.
[16:12] A
    Their clothes, their shoes,
    their bags, all of it!
[16:16] C
    They ate it?
[16:18] A
    Maybe.
[16:20] C
    Even their tobacco cases?
[16:23] A
    No. Those stink. They wouldn't
    eat them, I don't think.
[16:27] C
    Scary.
[16:30] K
    If there's any lesson to be
    had in that bizarre story,
[16:33] K
    it's that it's best to kill thieving cats.
[16:52] A
    What are these prints?
[16:55] A
    They're like a meko, but too big!
[16:58] Sh
    What's a meko?
[17:00] A
    A cat.
[17:02] A
    It means "those that die in cold."
[17:04] Sh
    You couldn't give them a cuter name?
[17:07] K
    Those are the prints of a mountain cat.
[17:10] A
    Is this a meko oyasi?
[17:13] A
    So this was the cat monster
    Aca once told me about!
[17:20] (Flashback) Wilk
    Their shoes, their clothes, their bags,
     their ropes, it was all gone.
[17:24] (Flashback) Wilk
    Maybe the meko oyasi ate it!
[17:27] (Flashback) A
    Even their tobacco cases?
[17:29] K
    Yeah. I hunted one with Wilk, just once.
[17:33] K
    We made a ton off its pelt.
[17:35] A
    What did it taste like?
[17:37] K
    Not good. Very gamy.
[17:40] K
    Your father seemed to hate it.
[17:44] A
    I see... so the cat monster
    doesn't taste good, huh?
[17:50] A
    It's the first time I've ever
    heard that story about Aca!
[17:55] K
    Do you want to know more?
[17:58] K
    There's a woman named Sofia
    who knew the old Wilk well.
[18:04] K
    She was brave and well-educated. Our leader.
[18:13] K
    And very beautiful.
[18:16] K
    We both looked up to her.
[18:21] A
    Aca did...
[18:22] A
    I didn't know there was anyone like that.
[18:25] A
    I want to meet her.
[18:27] A
    Where is she?
[18:30] K
    Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky...
[18:34] K
    Ako.
[18:36] K
    Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky,
    also known as "Ako,"
SIGN    Ako
SIGN    Border
[18:41] K
    is a major city in the
    Russian part of Karafuto.
[18:45] K
    Since 1858,
[18:47] K
    Karafuto was used as a place
    to exile criminals from the mainland.
[18:54] K
    And Ako was the place they first landed.
[18:59] K
    Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky Prison holds, at the
    height of its use, about 1,700 prisoners.
SIGN    Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky Prison
     (Ako Prison)
[19:08] K
    Male prisoners had half their hair cut,
[19:12] K
    and were primarily forced to do hard
    labor in mining and construction.
[19:16] K
    Those who escaped would be
    brought back and whipped.
[19:21] K
    Those who tried more than once
    would be tied to a wheelbarrow
[19:24] K
    that would stay with them
    even as they ate and slept.
[19:26] ---
    Xopoшo!
[19:29] K
    They're kept in Ako Prison.
[19:34] K
    There's no evidence,
     so they can't be executed.
[19:37] K
    But they're kept locked away in secret.
[19:40] K
    She was the one behind our plot
    to assassinate the emperor.
SIGN    You were too soft. I went to sleep!
[19:53] K
    Sofia Goldenhand.
[19:56] K
    She would commit crimes
    to fund our activities.
[20:00] K
    So she was given the name
    "Golden Hand" at court.
[20:06] Sh
    A woman?
[20:07] Sh
    Your boss was a woman?
[20:09] K
    Yeah.
[20:10] K
    She would know things
    about Wilk that I don't know.
[20:18] A
    Ako Prison...
[20:20] A
    If we go there...
[20:35] A
    Ogata,
[20:37] A
    we're heading to Ako!
[20:44] A
    Was something there?
[20:46] A
    Let's go.
SIGN    A female prisoner can leave if she gets married.
SIGN    You're young.
    Find a man and get married, Svetlana.
SIGN    You have a letter, Sofia Goldenhand.
SIGN    Yulbars!
SIGN    You've come back, huh, kid?
SIGN    Next Time
    Manslayer
[23:35] Narr
    Next time: "Manslayer"!