Golden Kamuy (2018–…): Season 2, Episode 7 - Kamuy Hopunire - full transcript

We finally found you!

We've been looking for you since Otaru!

For me?

We met an Ainu hunter over
there and asked them.

Hey, did you see an Ainu girl?

She should be with a Japanese
man with a scar on his face.

Oh, the one we just saw?

They were amazed you'd come so far!

They wanted us to all come
visit them in their kotan!

They hunted a bear!

Let's go, Asirpa!



Let's go, Sugimoto!

There's bear stew waiting for us!

I'd rather hit the local bars
on Inkarmat-chan's dime!

No way! Inkarmat is part of my family!

Family?

Yeah! She doesn't get mad
if I touch her boobs,

and Tanigaki Nispa is her gigolo.

Correct.

Why are they here?

Gigolo...

No, um...

(Golden Kamuy)

Episode Nineteen
Kamuy Hopunire

Oh, you found them?



Welcome!

The Kamuy Hopunire is about to begin.

Have a good time.

Kamuy Hopunire means "The Setting-Off
of Gods." It's a ceremony.

They send off the hunted bear.

It's a different ritual than an iomante,

where they send off a bear
that was raised in a cage.

That shout is called an okokokse.

It's to tell the god of fire
that a bear has been hunted.

The "kamuy" are things that humans can't do,

things that help us, and things
that bring us disaster.

Fire is a critical part of our lives.

Blades cut cleanly through
things we can't cut on our own.

So they have kamuy within them.

Trees are kamuy that sit on the mountains.

Bad weather and plagues are
beyond human power to control,

so they're kamuy, too.

But it's not that they're so
much greater than humanity.

We think of them as equals.

We've always believed
that when we're hunting,

we don't hit the prey with our arrows,
but instead the kamuy run into them for us.

We invite them to our world, and in
exchange for their meat and pelts,

they ask for sake and tobacco,
things that only we can make.

Then we send off the kamuy
with a proper ritual,

so that they'll tell the other kamuy
that the human world is a good place.

If we don't treat them properly, they'll
never come back down to our world.

After this, the bear's head will be taken
to an outdoor altar decorated with inaw.

Inaw are shaven wood sticks that
are given to the kamuy as a gift.

When a kamuy has many inaw,
its status in its own world grows.

It's said the inaw we give it
transform into silver and gold,

and become valuable treasures for it to keep.

So even in the afterlife gold is valuable,

and if you have lots of it,
you'll be happy, huh?

What's that cironnup thinking?

Asirpa...

I have something important to tell you.

I've come here to tell you about Huci.

Huci...

You came all the way from Otaru to
tell her that, Private Tanigaki?

Private Ogata...

Lt. Tsurumi actually sent
you here to watch me, right?

No... I'm done with the army.

That old lady helped me, so I'm
bringing her granddaughter back safe.

That's my job.

I don't know if I believe you.

You were a fervent believer in Lt. Tsurumi.
You killed three men in the mountains.

In the mountains?

You mean the three who were with Tanigaki?

It was a bear that killed them.

I was there. So I know for sure.

A bear?

The old lady had a dream where she
never saw her granddaughter again?

It's just a dream.

Send a damn letter.

We Ainu have always believed that dreams
are something the kamuy send when

they have something to show us.

I don't believe that, but Huci
is one of the old Ainu.

And she once had a dream a long time ago...

In the dream, her daughter
was surrounded by bears,

sending her off to the next world.

Soon after that my mother got
sick and died, she told me.

That's why she believes
in dreams so fervently.

Asirpa-san, do you want to just head back?

If she sees your face even once,

it makes her dream no
longer a prophecy, right?

She'll feel better.

You don't have to force
yourself to stay here.

Don't treat me like a child, Sugimoto.

There's something I want
to know, no matter what.

I'm going to learn what I need to know,
and go forward for the sake of my own dream.

Hey, Tanigaki Nispa.

I've been wondering about that Murata gun.

Did that belong to Nihei Tetsuzou?

You knew Nihei?

We hunted bears together over a decade ago.

He was so good at it, I thought there
wouldn't be any bears left in the area.

Nihei died in the mountains.

I took the gun from his body.

I see.

But you must have a hard time
using an old gun like that.

Nihei Tetsuzou turned me from
a soldier back into a Matagi.

I decided to carry it, so I don't forgot
how to feel when I shoot my prey.

"Always end the battle in one bullet"?

See those seven small marks on the barrel?

Nihei told me what they meant.

I've got a lot of kids, but only one son.

This is the gun he used in
the first Sino-Japanese War.

A friend of his gave it to me,

and told me that each mark on the barrel
was added when he shot an enemy.

Maybe he just stopped
counting after the seventh,

or maybe he died after.

Either way, he wasn't the sort of person
who would enjoy shooting people.

But the sort of wimp who'd feel
guilt after killing someone

has no business being a soldier.

He should've stayed home
and shot bears with me.

I-Is that you, Ryu?

Ryu?!

It's Ryu!

What's Nihei's dog doing here?

Did you bring him?

No...

Ryu, were you...

Were you following Tanigaki the whole time,
since he had Nihei's gun?!

You're such a great dog.

Ow, ow, ow, ow!

That hurt, you stupid animal!

Get lost!

Ryu's a loyal dog.

He won't forget an enemy of his master.

What will you do now, Tanigaki?

I'll follow you until
Asirpa achieves her goal.

I see.

Asirpa, once we get to town,
I'll send a telegram to Huci.

Okay!

All right, off to Abashiri we go, Asirpa-san!

Right!

(Golden Kamuy)

Lt. Tsurumi will scold me!

When he heard I let Shiraishi
Yoshitake get away,

he must've been really upset!

How did he look?

Sergeant Tsukishima, did Lt. Tsurumi
say anything about me?

You don't need to tell me!
I know, Tsukishima!

I'm...

I'm going to be sent to Abashiri
to watch Inudou Shirosuke!

Second Lt. Koito, calm down.

See? I brought the photos you asked for.

These are great, Tsukishima!

There's no scar on his face,
so this must have been taken

before the Battle of Mukden!

I'm jealous of you, Sergeant Tsukishima.

If I'd only been born a little earlier,
I could've fought with him.

This is perfect!

Tsukishima, crush up some
rice to use as glue!

No.

I didn't know you were here, Second Lt. Koito!

Hey.

Sunmohan! Oiga toborenkatta de Shiraishi
wo hinnigashite shimaimashita!

Jaddon irezumi dake wa
jizen ni utsuchoimoshita.

Jacchiten yurusarui wake ja aimohandon!

Calm down.

I can't make out high-speed Satsuma dialect.

Deep breaths.

Hinnigashite shimaimoshita don shiraishin
irezumi ha utsuchichoimoshita.

I don't understand you!

Tsukishima!

Tell him Shiraishi got away,
but I made a copy of his tattoos.

He says he made a copy
of Shiraishi's tattoos.

Why am I the only one who gets the
high-speed Satsuma dialect, Second Lt. Koito?

I ordered you not to kill Shiraishi
because I thought he had value.

And you let him fall into enemy hands...

I'm disappointed in you, Second Lt. Koito.

That looks great on you!

That's the skin of the prisoner who
was pretending to be Inudou, right?

This is an unexpected bonus.

From what we've learned,

it's safe to assume these tattoos belonged
to the con artist Suzukawa Kiyohiro.

Well done, Second Lt. Koito.

But...

The lines aren't quite right.

Sunmohan! Sunmohan!

That's what I'm talking
about, Second Lt. Koito.

Sunmohan! Sunmohan!

You're off the Asahikawa mission.

From now on...

You're helping me hunt the other prisoners.

He says, "I'll do my best."

This is such a pain.

You're sure it was Ogata Hyakunosuke
who was aboard the airship

with Shiraishi and Sugimoto, right?

"Yes."

"He disgraces the noble suicide
of Ogata's father Hanazawa Koujirou,

the former commander of the 7th Division."

"Even my father feels strong distrust
towards central command for the way

they blamed Lt. General Hanazawa's
suicide on the 7th Division."

"So what is Ogata thinking?"

Second Lt. Koito's father was,
like Lt. General Hanazawa, born in Satsuma,

and they were both friends. Is that correct?

The cause of the suicide was central
command placing the full blame

for the high casualties on 203 Hill
at Lt. General Hanazawa's feet.

I believed that, of course,
Ogata Hyakunosuke would fight for

his father's honor and for
the 7th division, but...

At the time, my father was a Lt. Colonel
in the 1st Imperial Guard Regiment.

Given his position,

he must've been rather irritated to
have an Asakusa geisha bear his child.

When a son was born to his wife,

my grandmother told me he
stopped coming entirely.

My grandmother took my mother
and me, when I was still a baby,

back to her home in Ibaraki.

My mother used to make monkfish stew.

Fugu in the west and monkfish
in the east, they'd say.

It was a local dish for the lower classes.

I liked it. I ate it a lot.

But I ate it every day.

In the winter, every day, my mom...

...would try to make monkfish stew.

My father said he liked it, so she
thought he might come back to eat it.

Every single day...

She'd gone crazy.

I took an old gun my grandfather had
out to the field and shot a bird.

I thought that if I brought it home,
my mom might not make monkfish stew.

But no matter how many birds I hunted,
she kept making monkfish stew.

That's why I...

When my grandparents were gone,

I put rat poison into the
monkfish stew and fed it to her.

If my father had any love left for my mother,
he would come to the funeral, I thought.

In the end, she would see the man she loved.

But...

You never came.

Don't tell me this is out of
hatred for me abandoning you?

You took pity on your insane mother,

but you were sick of her, too.

Just like me!

Children don't get to pick their parents.

"Love" is as vague a concept as "God."

But if you did have any love for my mother,
you wouldn't have abandoned her.

Perhaps a child born between
parents that lack love...

...comes out missing something.

No matter how great his
father's bloodline is.

The fact that Second Lt. Hanazawa Yuusaku,

the child you had with your wife,
is a nobleman proves that.

I only met him after I joined the military,

and I didn't know how to react.

He called me "big brother," no matter
how many times I told him he outranked me.

He never left me alone. He said he'd
grown up always wanting a brother.

That innocent smile...

It made me realize that this was a boy...

...who'd grown up beloved by his parents.

By the way, his father would've
had no way to know the truth

about how Second Lt. Hanazawa Yuusaku
really died at Hill 203.

I shot him in the back of the head.

Not out of any jealousy toward him,

or even really a desire
to make his father suffer.

I just wanted to see something...

When he heard of Yuusaku-san's death,
would the father think of me,

or perhaps suddenly care much more for
the other son he had with his mistress?

Was there ever a chance
for me to be happy, too?

You're right...

You're missing something.
You're a failure of a son!

A curse upon you!

The brass will make the 7th take
responsibility for his suicide.

It will be a difficult time
for us, but you must endure.

With an external enemy, the 7th
will come together even more!

The 7th will make the only surviving son
of Lt. General Hanazawa into a hero.

They'll see in you the god of war they lost!

Well done, Ogata Hyakunosuke.

Well done.

Goddamn seducer.

Next Time "Blue Eyes"