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Saichi "Immortal" Sugimoto, a Russo-Japanese War veteran, pans for gold in Hokkaido to provide for the widow of his dead comrade Toraji. His acquaintance Gotō drunkenly tells him the story of Nopperabo, a man who killed a group of Ainu and stole their trove of gold, hiding its location in a map tattooed across twenty-four escaped prisoners.
He is the illegitimate son of Kojirō Hanazawa (花沢 幸次郎, Hanazawa Kojirō), a lieutenant general who was the commander of the 7th during the Russo-Japanese War. Ogata tried unsuccessfully to corrupt Yuusaku Hanazawa, his virtuous younger half-brother and legitimate son of Kojirō, but eventually shoots him during the Battle of Hill 203.
James Hadfield of The Japan Times rated the movie 3 out of 5 stars, saying that “For all its extravagance, Golden Kamuy only leaves you half full.” [19] Panos Kotzathanasis of Asian Movie Pulse noted in his review that Golden Kamuy is a film worth watching, but the flashbacks were not placed in ideal moments and the dramatic parts could ...
Koshamain's War (コシャマインの戦い, Koshamain no tatakai) was an armed struggle between the Ainu and Wajin that took place on the Oshima Peninsula of southern Hokkaidō, Japan, in 1457. Escalating out of a dispute over the purchase of a sword, Koshamain and his followers sacked twelve forts in southern Ezo ( 道南十二館 ) , before ...
This is a filmography of films and videos that portray the life and culture of the Ainu people of what is now northern Japan and the fringe of the Russian Far East. Representations of the Ainu can vary from the strictly documentary to the fictional and, as with representations of Native Americans in Hollywood cinema, may suffer from distortions ...
Most of the 888 Japanese people living in Russia (2010 Census) are of mixed Japanese–Ainu ancestry, although they do not acknowledge it (full Japanese ancestry gives them the right of visa-free entry to Japan [186]). Similarly, no one identifies themselves as Amur Valley Ainu, although people of partial descent live in Khabarovsk.
Seino Araida [1] was born on 4 April 1917 in Shizunai, Hokkaido, [2] [3] and moved to Mukawa, Hokkaido in 1919. [3] [4] Since her mother was visually impaired, she began helping with farmwork as a young child. [4]
Kamuy-huci (カムイフチ, Kamui Fuchi) is the Ainu kamuy (goddess) of the hearth.Her full name is Apemerukoyan-mat Unamerukoyan-mat (Rising Fire Sparks Woman/ Rising Cinder Sparks Woman), and she is also known as Iresu Kamuy (People Teacher).