E44 - Brown Bear Man

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[00:21] Man
    Get away from me!
SIGN    Golden Kamuy
SIGN    Episode Forty-Four
    Brown Bear Man
[02:23] Sugimoto
    Seeing these Ainu cise makes me feel
    like we're really back in Hokkaido.
[02:28] Asirpa
    Yeah, we're back to Hokkaido at last.
[02:37] Shiraishi
    So, now what?
[02:40] Shiraishi
    You got a plan to help us find
    the gold all by ourselves?
[02:45] Asirpa
    Am I right in thinking our only
    choice is to steal the skins
[02:49] Asirpa
    from both Hijikata and Tsurumi?
[02:50] Sugimoto
    We'll lead the two sides right to each other...
    and get the skins while they fight!
[02:54] Sugimoto
    Two birds with one stone, right?
[02:58] Shiraishi
    Easier said than done.
[03:01] Shiraishi
    Hey, Nispa, any easy ways to
    make some cash for our travels?
[03:07] Ainu Man
    There's a kotan to the south that's
    asked for help slaying a wenkamuy.
[03:12] Shiraishi
    A wenkamuy? Isn't that a
    bear that's killed someone?
[03:15] Ainu Man
    Yes.
[03:17] Ainu Man
    Supposedly everyone who was killed
    was looking for gold in the river.
[03:22] Sugimoto
    Gold?
[03:23] Ainu Man
    And now everyone's too scared of
    the wenkamuy to go near the river.
[03:27] Sugimoto
    Are there still rivers with gold in them?
[03:30] Sugimoto
    I had no luck when I tried.
SIGN    Present
     Location
SIGN    Uryu River
SIGN    Abashiri
[03:32] Ainu Man
    The rumors are that
[03:34] Ainu Man
    there's a man who pans for gold at the
    Uryu River who's been getting rich lately.
[03:40] Ainu Man
    If you want money, pan for gold.
    Just watch out for the wenkamuy.
[03:45] Ainu Man
    Supposedly, he made 50 yen in a day.
[03:49] Sugimoto/Shiraishi
    A whole 50 yen?!
[04:12] Heita
    Help me! Help me!
[04:16] Heita
    Dad! Brother Taka! Brother Jiro!
[04:21] Heita
    Hurry! I'm slipping! I'm done for!
[04:25] Heita
    Somebody...
[04:29] Asirpa
    We made it!
[04:36] Heita
    Thank you.
[04:39] Heita
    You saved my life.
[04:41] Sugimoto
    You've got an injury there, are you okay?
[04:43] Heita
    Oh, this is from a little while ago...
[04:47] Heita
    He's so kind!
[04:49] Taka
    Heita!
[04:50] Taka
    I'm so glad you're okay.
[04:52] Heita
    Brother Taka!
[04:53] Shiraishi
    You looking for gold?
[04:57] Heita
    Yes... I'm impressed you could tell.
[05:00] Sugimoto
    We came to pan for gold ourselves.
[05:04] Sugimoto
    We heard there was a lot
    here in the Uryu River.
[05:10] Heita
    Oh, I see!
[05:12] Heita
    There's a lot here still, if you look for it!
[05:18] Noriko
    Oh my, what an unusual group.
[05:22] Noriko
    They must be having such fun together!
[05:24] Heita
    How are you all related?
[05:27] Noriko
    I see one of you is even
    from a foreign country.
[05:29] Shiraishi
    We're, uh... buddies?
[05:32] Sugimoto
    No, just nobodies.
[05:34] Taka
    Noriko, get back to the hut!
[05:39] Heita
    We use a glass box to look at the river
    bottom and in cracks in the rocks.
[05:44] Heita
    That's why this method
    is called glass digging.
[05:48] Heita
    Then you use this metal scraper to
    dig out the gold from the cracks.
[05:52] Heita
    It's an easy way to find big chunks of gold.
[05:56] Heita
    What you're trying to do is called panning.
[06:00] Heita
    It's hard to pick the
    right spot to do panning.
[06:03] Sugimoto
    I knew it.
[06:05] Sugimoto
    I tried it once before
    and didn't get anywhere.
[06:09] Sugimoto
    Could you tell me where to start?
[06:11] Shiraishi
    Please?
[06:12] Heita
    Hmm... in this area, you might
    want to try under that big rock.
[06:25] Shiraishi
    I can't do this anymore!
[06:28] Shiraishi
    Asirpa-chan! Hot water!
[06:35] Shiraishi
    Heaven...
[06:36] Heita's Dad
    At this time of year,
[06:38] Heita's Dad
    you can only look for gold for around four
    hours during the hottest part of the day.
[06:41] Heita's Dad
    And panning's the least
    efficient way to do it.
[06:46] Shiraishi
    I should've known we wouldn't get anywhere.
[06:50] Sugimoto
    That story about someone making 50 yen in
    a day at the Uryu River was all lies, then?
[06:56] Heita
    It's true.
[06:59] Heita
    Because I was the one who did it.
[07:02] Taka
    Heita! You keep your mouth shut!
[07:05] Heita
    They saved my life,
    so I'm going to tell them.
[07:09] Heita
    Do you know what I mean when I say "white"?
[07:11] Shiraishi
    What's "white"?
[07:13] Heita
    I'll show you.
[07:15] Heita
    Here.
[07:17] Heita
    Gold hunters call gold "red."
[07:21] Heita
    And this, which we call "white,"
    is always found mixed in with it.
[07:26] Heita
    It's actually something called platinum.
[07:29] Heita
    It's very hard!
[07:32] Heita
    It's resistant to heat and acid can't touch it!
[07:35] Heita
    Jewelers don't like it because
    it damages their tools.
[07:39] Heita
    If it's mixed in with the gold,
     the gold's worth less.
[07:42] Heita
    So until now you've had
    to pick it out by hand.
[07:45] Heita
    And it takes forever!
[07:48] Heita
    The white is only found in Hokkaido,
[07:51] Heita
    and the Uryu River has an
    exceptionally large amount.
[07:55] Sugimoto
    Huh? Then that's no good.
[07:56] Heita
    But get this. Now there are people
    who'll pay a high price for it!
[08:01] Heita
    Three yen for one monme!
[08:04] Sugimoto
    That's almost as much as gold's worth!
[08:08] Heita
    There was this guy who ran an arms factory
[08:10] Heita
    that had to shut down after
    the Russo-Japanese War ended,
[08:12] Heita
    so he decided to be the first
    Japanese man to make fountain pens.
[08:16] Heita
    He realized that the hard,
    friction-resistant metal on the edge
[08:20] Heita
    of the fountain pens from
    overseas was actually platinum.
[08:26] Heita
    And then he realized he could get
    his own platinum from Hokkaido!
[08:31] Heita
    We thought the white was worthless, but now
    it's getting more valuable by the day!
[08:35] Heita
    Of course, people from
    outside Japan want it, too.
[08:38] Heita
    Until now, we just threw the white away!
[08:42] Heita
    We just tossed the stuff back
    into every river in Hokkaido!
[08:44] Heita
    This is the start of a second gold rush!
[08:56] Heita
    Him again!
[08:57] Heita
    The same bear...
[09:00] Taka
    Where?
[09:00] Taka
    Where is he?
[09:02] Heita
    Over there! Look!
[09:03] Heita
    He's staring at us.
[09:06] Heita
    He disappeared.
[09:09] Heita
    But he's getting closer...
[09:12] Heita
    Yesterday he was further away.
[09:16] Heita
    That's a wenkamuy.
[09:23] Sugimoto
    Asirpa-san? Well?
[09:25] Sugimoto
    See any footprints?
[09:27] Asirpa
    No. Not a thing.
[09:29] Sugimoto
    So it got away by moving
    over the bamboo grass?
[09:32] Asirpa
    I'm not so sure.
[09:37] Asirpa
    A chakchak kamuy?
[09:39] Asirpa
    If there was a bear nearby, it would cry,
    "Chakchak!" and try to lead us to it.
[09:46] Asirpa
    But it's quiet.
[09:48] Heita
    Here!
[09:50] Heita
    This is the spot.
[09:53] Heita
    I bet you could find lots of platinum here.
[09:56] Heita
    You could get more than 10 monme in a day.
[10:01] Heita
    We'll split it evenly with you.
[10:05] Shiraishi
    More than 50 yen! In a day!
[10:07] Sugimoto
    That sounds a lot better than risking
    having a bear rip our faces off!
[10:11] Asirpa
    That's why everyone stopped hunting and
    dug for gold, and the rivers got polluted!
[10:15] Shiraishi/Sugimoto
    Master Heita, thank you
    for your kind tutelage!
[10:23] Asirpa
    That tobacco case... That was
    made by an Ainu, right?
[10:27] Heita
    Oh, this? I once hunted gold with the Ainu.
[10:34] Heita
    We got to be friends, and they gave it to me.
[10:36] Asirpa
    I see.
[10:38] Asirpa
    That's how you know the word wenkamuy.
[10:40] Heita
    When I was a child, the Ainu told
    me a story about the wenkamuy.
[10:45] Heita
    It was so scary I couldn't sleep.
[10:50] Heita
    I was so, so, so scared...
[10:53] Heita
    I peed my bed every night!
[10:55] Shiraishi
    Poor young Heita!
[10:57] Heita
    So scared, so scared, so scared, so scared...
[11:01] Sugimoto
    We've heard about the wenkamuy, too.
[11:04] Sugimoto
    They say it's attacked a lot
    of people around the Uryu River
[11:06] Sugimoto
    who are hunting for gold.
[11:08] Shiraishi
    Don't worry!
[11:10] Shiraishi
    We have a dedicated bear-hunting
    specialist with us today.
[11:13] Shiraishi
    So just focus on finding that platinum!
[11:16] Asirpa
    You said it was getting closer, right?
[11:20] Asirpa
    How long has it been
    wandering around here?
[11:23] Heita
    For years.
[11:30] Noriko
    Are you drawing?
[11:32] Noriko
    Is it fun?
[11:34] Noriko
    Hey, would you draw me?
[11:38] Noriko
    Draw. Me.
[11:41] Noriko
    Come here.
[11:44] Noriko
    It's cold. You can draw inside.
[11:47] Noriko
    Come inside...
[11:56] Noriko
    Make me look pretty.
[12:01] Noriko
    Do you like my body?
[12:10] Noriko
    Again...
[12:11] Noriko
    I threw it away!
[12:14] Taka
    Noriko, what are you doing?
[12:17] Noriko
    Well, I was bored.
[12:19] Taka
    That doesn't mean you should be taking
    your clothes off for a man you just met!
[12:23] Noriko
    I'm not interested in him.
[12:26] Noriko
    I just wanted to have a picture so I
    could remember how beautiful I was.
[12:29] Noriko
    If I spend the rest of my life watching
    you hunt gold here on this mountain,
[12:33] Noriko
    I'll be an old lady before you know it.
[12:37] Noriko
    I'm sorry.
[12:38] Taka
    All right.
[12:39] Taka
    It won't be for much longer.
[12:43] Taka
    Once I make a ton of money off the white,
    I'll go to Tokyo and open a business.
[12:51] Sugimoto
    Huh? Hey, where's Master Heita?
[12:54] Sugimoto
    Did he wander off?
[12:56] Sugimoto
    That's dangerous! There's a
    man-eating bear on the loose!
[12:59] Shiraishi
    Asirpa-chan! Master Heita's gone missing!
[13:03] Shiraishi
    Can you go look for him?
[13:05] Shiraishi
    If he gets eaten, we won't get any money!
[13:10] Asirpa
    If there really is a bear, maybe.
[13:17] Taka
    Hey, mister.
[13:22] Taka
    Over here. Come here.
[13:25] Taka
    Aren't those your binoculars on
    top of that monkey chair mushroom?
[13:32] Taka
    It was probably Noriko playing a prank.
[13:46] Asirpa
    That was an amappo. That was close.
[13:49] Asirpa
    Trees trapped with an amappo
    will have holes made in the bark
[13:52] Asirpa
    or other ways to recognize them.
[13:54] Asirpa
    Make sure to remember that.
[13:56] Asirpa
    Somebody set it here to catch deer, probably.
[13:59] Asirpa
    The brown bears are still all
    in their dens, after all.
[14:03] Asirpa
    I looked around in a wider
    area than where Heita was.
[14:07] Asirpa
    But I didn't see a single sign of a
    matakarip that didn't hibernate in winter.
[14:12] Asirpa
    Why did Heita lie about seeing a bear?
[14:17] Shiraishi
    Sugimoto, look!
[14:21] Shiraishi
    Asirpa-san!
[14:23] Shiraishi
    The bear's over there!
[14:25] Sugimoto
    We saw it, too!
[14:26] Sugimoto
    Master Heita was right! It's close!
[14:29] Sugimoto
    We need to protect Master
    Heita from the wenkamuy!
SIGN    Golden Kamuy
[14:42] Sugimoto
    That's strange.
[14:44] Sugimoto
    I know it was around here.
[14:46] Asirpa
    Stop walking around!
[14:48] Asirpa
    I won't be able to tell your
    prints from the bear's!
[14:51] Asirpa
    There's no way a brown bear
    wouldn't leave footprints.
[14:55] Sugimoto
    Right.
[14:56] Sugimoto
    We'll defeat the bear. Shiraishi,
    you look for Master Heita.
[15:00] Sugimoto
    Take Mister Hood with you.
[15:02] Shiraishi
    Roger!
[15:08] Heita
    Dad... Brother Jiro...
[15:15] Heita
    Is someone praying?
[15:18] Taka
    Buddha protect me... Buddha protect me...
[15:22] Taka
    Buddha protect me... Buddha protect me...
[15:37] Heita
    Are you hurt?
[15:38] Noriko
    Heita! Taka-san was... Taka-san was...
[15:45] Noriko
    No!
[15:47] Heita
    I'm sorry!
[15:48] Heita
    Don't tell Brother Taka.
[15:50] Heita
    He'll hit me again!
[15:58] Heita
    It's your fault, Sister Noriko!
[16:04] Sugimoto
    What's wrong, Master Heita?
[16:06] Sugimoto
    Did you see the bear?
[16:07] Heita
    We need to run!
[16:09] Heita
    We need to run, or I'll be next!
[16:12] Sugimoto
    It's okay. Stay with us.
[16:14] Sugimoto
    We'll protect you.
[16:15] Sugimoto
    Where was the bear?
[16:17] Heita
    Impossible!
[16:19] Heita
    He's going to eat me! For sure!
[16:22] Heita
    So get as far away from me as you can!
[16:24] Asirpa
    What does that mean?
[16:26] Heita
    Dad... Brother Jiro, Brother Taka...
[16:29] Heita
    It ate them all!
[16:31] Shiraishi
    Mister Hood, come with me!
[16:37] Heita
    And it ate Sister Noriko, too.
[16:40] Heita
    It's my fault!
[16:42] Heita
    I'm the one who brought the wenkamuy!
[16:46] Sugimoto
    Master Heita, who are these
    people you're talking about?
[16:57] (Flashback) Taka
    Noriko, get back to the hut!
[16:59] (Flashback) Noriko
    Oh my, what an unusual group.
[17:04] (Flashback) Noriko
    Do you like my body?
[17:09] Asirpa
    That thing at your feet...
[17:12] Asirpa
    That's a bear pelt.
[17:16] Heita
    When did that get here?
[17:18] Sugimoto
    "When"? You've been carrying it on your
    back like it was really important to you!
[17:23] Heita
    No! I keep throwing it away!
[17:26] Heita
    I burn it! I throw it in the river!
[17:28] Heita
    And then the next thing I know
    I find myself holding it again!
[17:31] Asirpa
    Do you think the bear that
    you two saw was that pelt?
[17:38] Heita
    Hurry! Run!
[17:41] Asirpa
    Maybe the wenkamuy that Heita's talking
    about only exists in his head.
[17:51] Sugimoto
    Master Heita!
[17:52] Sugimoto
    What's wrong?
[18:05] Kadokura
    Matsuda Heita, one of the
    death row inmates at Abashiri.
[18:10] Kadokura
    You wouldn't believe that guy.
[18:12] Kadokura
    I remember him really well.
[18:14] Kadokura
    This freak would change the way
    his voice sounded all the time.
[18:19] Kadokura
    Once in a while, he'd try
    to sound like a sexy woman.
[18:22] Kadokura
    It was disgusting.
[18:24] Kadokura
    Once he told me something. That there
    were many other people inside him.
[18:33] Kadokura
    And he was always scared of this brown bear
[18:35] Kadokura
    he swore was stalking
    around outside the prison.
[18:39] (Flashback) Heita
    It's there. It's right outside...
[18:42] Kadokura
    The something-kamuy, he called it.
[18:44] Kadokura
    Some kind of evil god
    that had eaten a person.
[18:47] Kirawus
    The wenkamuy.
[18:49] Kadokura
    Yeah, that's it.
[18:50] Kadokura
    He said this wenkamuy was
[18:52] Kadokura
    attacking and eating the people
    in his head, one after another.
[18:58] (Flashback) Heita
    And in the end, the wenkamuy
    will eat me and take over.
[19:03] (Flashback) Heita
    And when that happens I'll
    go to hunt someone...
[19:06] (Flashback) Heita
    I'll have to kill them to make it stop.
[19:09] (Flashback) Heita
    When I kill a person in the real world,
[19:11] (Flashback) Heita
    my body explodes into pieces
    that fly all over the mountain.
[19:16] (Flashback) Heita
    And then I go back to the old me.
[19:19] (Flashback) Heita
    It happens again and again.
[19:21] (Flashback) Heita
    Again and again...
[19:24] Kirawus
    Where I'm from, when a wenkamuy is defeated,
    we don't take its meat or its pelt.
[19:29] Kirawus
    We chop its body up into tiny pieces
    and scatter it all over the mountain.
[19:31] Kirawus
    That must be what he was referring to.
[19:34] (Flashback) Heita
    The wenkamuy is taking control of me,
    trying to get me to escape from the prison!
[19:41] (Flashback) Heita
    Look at this!
[19:42] (Flashback) Heita
    There're all these tattoos on my body,
    and I can't remember how they got here!
[19:48] Kadokura
    You'd think it was all some bullshit
    story he came up with, right?
[19:54] Kadokura
    But if you look at the records for the trial,
[19:57] Kadokura
    he was found wearing the
    pelt of a brown bear,
[19:59] Kadokura
    ripping apart the victim's body,
    taking their flesh, and...
[20:04] Kadokura
    Matsuda Heita, the Brown Bear Man.
[20:07] Kadokura
    If what he said is true, he might be
    out there somewhere doing it again.
[20:21] Asirpa
    Sugimoto!
[20:27] Sugimoto
    He's so strong, it's inhuman!
[20:47] Heita
    Good! The wenkamuy is weakened!
[20:52] Heita
    Now I can...
[21:04] Asirpa
    Sugimoto, are you okay?
[21:06] Heita
    I did it.
[21:08] Heita
    I beat him...
[21:12] Asirpa
    This is where we just were.
[21:14] Heita
    I lured you here so he wouldn't notice.
[21:19] Shiraishi
    We need to get the poison arrow out!
[21:21] Shiraishi
    Asirpa-chan, do something!
[21:23] Heita
    No, leave me.
[21:26] Heita
    I was so scared of the story of the wenkamuy
    that I heard when I was a child...
[21:32] Heita
    I always pictured in my head.
[21:35] Heita
    I'd spend the whole day working
    myself to the bone digging gold...
[21:39] Heita
    And my family would waste the
    money before the day was up.
[21:43] Heita
    I wanted to punish them for how greedy
    they'd become over the gold.
[21:49] Heita
    And one day I found an animal corpse
    that a bear was saving to eat for later.
[21:53] Heita
    I took it home and hid
    it where everyone slept.
[21:59] Heita
    It killed my family, but before
     it could eat me,
[22:03] Heita
    an Ainu hunter slew it and its
    body was chopped into bits.
[22:08] Heita
    After that, the wenkamuy came
    back to life again and again...
[22:14] Heita
    To punish my family!
[22:18] Heita
    And in the end, I was
    punished for my greed, too.
[22:23] Heita
    I became a wenkamuy and went
    to attack an innocent person.
[22:29] Heita
    I wanted someone to stop me.
[22:31] Heita
    And because you fought the wenkamuy,
    Sugimoto-san, I can finally be rid of it.
[22:47] Asirpa
    Where we live, it's said that
[22:50] Asirpa
    people slain by a wenkamuy were taken
    away because the gods favored them.
[22:56] Asirpa
    So wenkamuy don't kill people to punish them.
[23:01] Asirpa
    I think he only heard part
    of the stories of the Ainu...
[23:06] Asirpa
    which created a wenkamuy inside him
    that should have never existed.
[23:10] Asirpa
    It's important to pass
    on the truth properly.
[23:13] Sugimoto
    So his lust for gold ruined his life?
[23:18] Sugimoto
    Or maybe there's something in
    gold that drives men mad.
[23:23] Shiraishi
    Don't die, Master Heita!
[23:26] Shiraishi
    Tell me where to dig next!
[23:28] Shiraishi
    Master Heita!
SIGN    Next Time
    Partner in Crime
[23:36] Narrator
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