Golden Kamuy: Season 4

Sugimoto's party leave the Nivkh village in Russia on dog sleds, crossing back into Japanese territory. They arrive in the coastal town of Shisuka where they are observed by an unknown person. Sugimoto sends a telegram to Lt. Tsurumi announcing that they are heading towards Toyohara. Suddenly, Shiraishi is shot in the leg by a sniper who then keeps the group pinned down. Sugimoto returns from shopping for supplies and attacks the sniper from a different direction. Sugimoto discovers that he is t

Ushiyama regains some level of consciousness while buried in a coffin, but is still effected by Sekiya's combined fugu and datura poisons. He breaks out, and outdoors he rescues Chiyotarou, the Ainu skating boy of a wealthy family who had been tied to a tree by bullies. Meanwhile, Sekiya sends Hijikata's katana to Kadokura with a provocative message stating that he has kidnapped Hijikata who is still in a coma caused by fugu poison. Kadokura and Kirawus hatch a plan to exchange some tattooed ski

While Privates Nikaido and Usami of the 7th Division are recuperating at the Noboribetsu Hell Valley hot springs they meet Warrant Officer Kikuta. He introduces them to Private Ariko, an Ainu, who tells of recently seeing a stranger who appears to be wearing a strangely marked coat higher up the mountain. Kikuta asks Nikaido about the tattoos on the escaped Abashiri prisoners, suspecting the stranger may be one of them. Meanwhile at another sulfurous hot spring up in the hills, escapee Anji Toni

In a flashback to Kagoshima many years earlier, the young Otonoshin Koito, a naval cadet and second son of the wealthy Naval commander Heiji Koito, crashes into Tsurumi with his new motorized tricycle. Tsurumi chases Koito and teaches the young man a lesson in humility. Koito then reveals the remorse he feels about his older brother's death during the Sino-Japanese War and they strike up a friendship. Later, the Koito family move to Hakodate where Koito is kidnapped and coincidentally the soldie

In Toyohara, Sugimoto receives word by telegram that Tsurumi is on his way to Karafuto via Noboribetsu and is planning to meet them on Oodomari in two weeks. While Sugimoto and Asirpa out hunting, they are watched by Tsukishima accompanied by a Russian. Meanwhile, a cinematographer Katsuro Inaba and his operator Gariel, are filming Karafuto Ainu for Lumière when they see Asirpa create a ritual fire without matches and he asks to film it. Suddenly, Inaba ia attacked by the wolverine that Asirpa i

Tsurumi realizes that Anji Toni was pretending to be a masseur while spying on their movements. Tsurumi suspects that Ariko is working for Hijikata as the skin he returned with was not Toni's, but that of Sekiya, because he already knew what was on Toni's tattoo. Tsurumi pressures Ariko into working for him as a double-agent, and after beating him up sends him off with all the fake skins made by Yasaku Edogai to give to Hijikata. Ariko arrives with the skins, but Hijikata suspects they are fakes

Tsurumi's destroyer reaches the port of Karafuto where he approaches Asirpa's group and offers to protect her. He proposes to send Sugimoto and Shiraishi on the morning ferry to Wakkanai but Asirpa mistrusts his motives. Taking the initiative, Asirpa fires a volley of arrows into the air, causing everyone to scatter and enabling her to flee with Sugimoto. They are caught and come under fire but as Tsurumi's men surround them, Sugimoto lashes out, wounding them and escaping again. With the aid of

Asirpa's group relax with the local Ainu and plan to get the tattoed skins while Hijikata and Tsurumi are preoccupied with fighting each other. While talking, they learn that there is a reward for catching a legendary wankamuy, a bear that has killed someone. While out hunting, Sugimoto and Asirpa save the man called Heita who then tells them the best method to search for gold, but also that he has made more money from panning for "white", specks of platinum worth as much as gold. When Asirpa se

Genjiro Tanigaki attempts to quit, but Tsurumi reveals that Inkarmat is pregnant with Tanigaki's child and instead sends him on a mission to get rid of Sugimoto. As Asirpa's group dry Heita's tattooed skin, they examine his labelled gold samples and Shiraishi suggests that if the sample from "Boutarou the Pirate" was retrieved from Lake Shikotsu where Noppera-bo lost some when his boat capsized, it may provide a clue to the gold's location. Elsewhere, Ogata rejoins Hijikata's group and reveals t

Tanigaki abandons his mission to kill Sugimoto and capture Asirpa. Instead he visits the heavily pregnant Inkarmat, planning to escape with her. He is caught by Tsukishima but Doctor Ienaga injects him with a sedative so that they can escape, however Tsukishima shoots her before he collapses. Koito allows the couple to escape but Tsukishima recovers enough to fire a shot, hitting Tanigaki as he rides off with Inkarmat. They reach Huci's cottage on foot, but Tsukishima catches up with them, follo

Asirpa gets information from a local man that a strange tattooed peddler was seen at the Utashinai coal mines, selling candy, but after investigating him and another stranger, they decide leave by paddle boat for Sapporo. The boat is attacked and captured by a former prisoner, Fusataro Osawa known as Botaro the pirate, who is also searching for the Ainu gold. He and Sugimoto fight to a standstill while Mister Hood's trailing boat carrying the horses becomes separated. Botaro explains how Wakayam

After seeing the contents of Heita's tobacco case, Botaro the Pirate realizes that Sugimoto is also after the Ainu gold. During a struggle they are both thrown overboard and Botaro tries to drown Sugimoto, but he breaks free and captures Botaro. Sugimoto then declares that they will work together, sharing information to gain an advantage over Tsurumi and Hijikata's groups. In Sapporo, Usami uses an unconventional method to track the prostitute killer, but he escapes from Usami and Kikuta and kil

Usami tells Kikuta that Ogata killed his half-brother, Lieutenant Yuusaku Hanazawa, during the Battle of Hill 203 to determine if his father, General Hanazawa, really loved him (see Episode 30). Usami then reminisces about how he and Ogata were both Tsurumi's pawns, with Ogata killing his father for Tsurumi, but this just made Usami more jealous of Ogata's closeness to Tsurumi. Meanwhile, Asirpa speculates that the Ainu name that her mother gave to her father, Aca, is somehow embedded in the cod