7.2/10192 votesLoading...#1 - Wenkamuy
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/9/2018
Sugimoto Saichi, called "Immortal Saichi" for his incredible powers of survival, is panning for gold in the far north when he hears a story about buried treasure, hidden by a death row inmate. He decides to go after the treasure, but it will be a journey far longer and far more dangerous than he'd ever imagined...
Director: Takahiro Kawakoshi
Writer: Noboru Takagi
7.4/10133 votesLoading...#2 - Trickster Fox
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/25/2018
Shiraishi meets Ushiyama and Ienaga, who survived the explosion, but does not disclose this to Sugimoto. Sugimoto’s group encounter Inkarmat, a traveling Ainu fortune teller who Asirpa does not trust. Shiraishi takes Inkarmat to a horse race, where they win two races on Inkarmat’s predictions. Kiroranke meets old friends at the track, who ask him to ride a horse and throw the race at the behest of a yakuza boss. Shiraishi bets all his money on the last race, but it is won by Kiroranke, who defies the yakuza boss. In Barato, Ogata meets with Hijikata and joins his group.
Director: Akira Toba
Writer: Noboru Takagi
7.6/10162 votesLoading...#3 - Nopperabo
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/16/2018
Saichi and Asirpa head to Otaru, the largest town in the area, in seach of the tattooed prisoners. They quickly find out that they're not the only ones after the treasure. The army is looking for it too! Saichi has to face off against a deadly sniper, and a horrible cold front is setting in too...
Director: Shigenori Awai
Writer: Noboru Takagi
7.6/10154 votesLoading...#4 - Kamuy Mosir
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/23/2018
Sugimoto and Asirpa are pursued by soldiers from the 7th Division. Private Genjirō Tanigaki finds Asirpa, but is fought off by Retar. Sugimoto evades capture after diving into a bear cave, whose occupant charges and kills the soldiers before succumbing to its wounds. Sugimoto and Asirpa take a baby bear found in the cave to Asirpa's village, and visit Asirpa's grandmother ("Huci"). Lieutenant Tokushirou Tsurumi, the leader of the 7th, mounts a search effort for the missing soldiers. Meanwhile, at a brothel in Otaru, Hijikata ambushes the tattooed prisoner Ushiyama Tatsuma, and offers to work with to him collect the tattooed skins.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10128 votesLoading...#5 - Eyes of a Murderer
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/28/2018
Caught by Ushiyama, Shiraishi is pressured by Hijikata into acting as his mole in Sugimoto’s group. Sugimoto, Asirpa, and Shiraishi hear rumors of Henmi Kazuo, a tattooed prisoner who is also a psychopathic killer. They go whaling and unknowingly rescue Henmi after he falls into the water. Henmi conceals his tattoo, but vows to either kill Sugimoto or die in the attempt.
Director: Kazuomi Koga
Writer: Shingo Irie
7.6/10118 votesLoading...#6 - Let's Talk About the Past
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/2018
The collected groups search Edogai's workshop for a way to identify the fake tattoos, but are attacked by the 7th. The groups split up, with plans to reunite in Ashibetsu. Elsewhere, Tanigaki and Inkarmat agree to travel with the orphan Cikapasi. Hijikata makes plans to break into Abashiri Prison to question Nopperabo, utilizing Shiraishi's escape skills. After a dream where Sugimoto kills him for his betrayal, Shiraishi flees, but encounters the 7th.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10118 votesLoading...#7 - The Great Plan to Infiltrate the Asahikawa 7th Division!!
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/2018
Shiraishi is captured by the 7th, though Hijikata and Kiroranke attempt and fail to rescue him. Tsurumi meets his old friend Lt. General Arisaka, a weapon designer who gives Nikaidō a false leg that can fire buckshots. Hijikata introduces his companions to Kiyohiro Suzukawa, a con artist and tattooed prisoner. Suzukawa disguises himself as Shirosuke Inudō, the warden of Abashiri Prison, in an elaborate plan to rescue Shiraishi.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10113 votesLoading...#8 - Meko Oyasi
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/2020
Sugimoto, Tanigaki, Cikapasi, and Ryu get lost in a blizzard. Meanwhile, Kiroranke is taking Asirpa to see an old friend of her father's.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1095 votesLoading...#9 - The Smell of Sulfur
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/2022
The members of the 7th hunt a strange man at the Noboribetsu hot springs.
Director: Tomio Yamauchi
Writer: Noboru Takagi
7.7/10135 votesLoading...#10 - Hunter's Soul
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/14/2018
Nihei tells Tanigaki that he wishes to hunt Retar, the last Hokkaido wolf. Asirpa and Sugimoto are joined by Shiraishi, who tells Asirpa and Sugimoto that Nihei is a tattooed prisoner. Asirpa, Sugimoto and Shiraishi track the hunters and ambush them.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10133 votesLoading...#11 - Complication
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/21/2018
Sugimoto and Shiraishi fight Nihei, while Tanigaki captures Asirpa. Tanigaki is shot by a poisoned arrow after stepping in a deer trap, but is saved by Asirpa. Retar rushes to Asirpa's aid with his mate, a grey wolf, who attacks and kills Nihei. Tanigaki is brought to Asirpa’s village to recover, and tells them that Tsurumi intends to use the gold to mount a military coup to form an independent Hokkaido. At a brothel, Ushiyama finds Shiraishi and gives chase.
Director: Kiyoshi Egami
Writer: Atsuo Ishino
7.8/10147 votesLoading...#12 - Grim Reaper
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/30/2018
Sugimoto leaves the village and returns to Otaru alone, where he learns of the incident with Ushiyama. He is captured by Tsurumi, who accuses him of killing the soldiers. Asirpa and Retar track Sugimoto and find Shiraishi, who tells her Sugimoto's location.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10140 votesLoading...#13 - Race
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/7/2018
Sugimoto is tortured by twin brothers Youhei and Kouhei Nikaidō. Shiraishi breaks into Sugimoto's cell and releases his bonds, allowing him to kill Youhei. He fakes a fatal injury using Youhei's intestines, and is able to escape and reunite with Asirpa. While hunting, Asirpa and Sugimoto come across the tracks of two men: Tanigaki and Tetsuzō Nihei, a famous bear hunter.
Director: N/A
Writer: Sachio Yanai
7.8/10128 votesLoading...#14 - Fellow Traveler
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/11/2018
Tanigaki, a Matagi, escapes his pursuers by using his skills in hunting and trapping. Tsurumi arrives, and forces Nikaidō to expose the traitors in the 7th after cutting off Nikaidō’s ear, though Ogata evades capture. Elsewhere, Shiraishi is grabbed by a massive huchen after falling in a river, but is saved by Kiroranke, a former friend of Asirpa’s father. Kiroranke reveals that Asirpa's father is Nopperabo, and that he is now in Abashiri Prison. They begin to travel towards Abashiri to confront Nopperabo.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10120 votesLoading...#15 - Fakes
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/15/2018
Sugimoto and Shiraishi track Hajime Tsukishima, a sergeant in the 7th, back to Edogai's workshop, and find it under attack by Ogata. Edogai flees into a mine, where he is caught in a series of explosions; he dies, but is able to relay to Tsukishima how to distinguish the fake skins. Hijikata and Sugimoto's groups meet, and reluctantly agree to cease hostilities now that Tsurumi possesses fake tattooed skins.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10127 votesLoading...#16 - To Karafuto
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/2020
Saichi Sugimoto and his group arrive in Karafuto to search for Asirpa and Kiroranke. They meet a Karafuto Ainu girl and with her help reach a Russian village, where Kiroranke's group has been seen lately. By chance, another tattooed prisoner is found in the same village...
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1070 votesLoading...#17 - The Vanished Kamuy
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 6/26/2023
Usami and Kikuta remain on the hunt for the killer as Botaro tries to unravel the mystery of Asirpa and Sugimoto's relationship.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10129 votesLoading...#18 - Gleaming
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/4/2018
Hemni and Sugimoto are confronted by 7th Division soldiers. As they flee, Hemni attempts to kill Sugimoto, and they engage in a violent struggle before Sugimoto fatally stabs him. An orca beaches and grabs Hemni’s body, though Sugimoto, Shiraishi and Asirpa are able to recover it. Meanwhile, Ogata and Nikaidō find Tanigaki at the Ainu village, and accuse him of killing his companions and deserting the 7th. Tanigaki realizes that are battling factions within the 7th, and prepares to defend himself.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10130 votesLoading...#19 - Edogai-kun
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/2018
While searching for the body of a tattooed prisoner stolen from his grave, Tsurumi encounters Edogai Yasaku, a taxidermist who creates clothing from human skin. Tsurumi wins Edogai's affections by praising his skills, and commissions Edogai to create fake tattooed skins to confuse the other treasure hunters. At Asirpa's village, a recovered Tanigaki promises Huci that he will bring Asirpa home safely. He is joined by Inkarmat, unaware that she is working for Tsurumi.
Director: Masato Miyoshi
Writer: Noboru Takagi
7.9/10124 votesLoading...#20 - Blue Eyes
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/2018
A locust swarm separates Asirpa and Inkarmat from the group, where Asirpa questions Inkarmat about her father. Inkarmat says that Asirpa's father is Wilk, a Polish-Ainu man with blue eyes who was killed by Kiroranke. Elsewhere, the men cook sea otter meat given to Inkarmat and Tanigaki, and become aroused from its aphrodisiac effects. Reunited, Kiroranke denies Inkarmat's accusation. Despite mounting distrust, the group agrees to continue on to Abashiri. In Abashiri, Inudō attempts to kill Usami, a new guard feeding information about Nopperabo to the 7th, but is unsuccessful.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10122 votesLoading...#21 - The Immortal Sugimoto Harakiri Show
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/2020
Sugimoto's Group arrives in Toyohara, where they have to chase after a thief. The thief turns out to be a boy from a famous touring circus troupe. Sugimoto comes up with an idea that will help him reach Asirpa even when she is far away — he needs to become the star of the the circus show.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1098 votesLoading...#22 - Cocoon
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/2022
Kadokura challenges Sekiya, one of the tattooed prisoners, to a deadly game in order to save the life of Hijikata.
Director: Tomio Yamauchi
Writer: Noboru Takagi
7.9/1074 votesLoading...#23 - Discharge
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 6/19/2023
Usami and Kikuta search out a bizarre serial killer in Sapporo while Sugimoto fights a desperate underwater battle.
Director: Takeyuki Sadohara
Writer: N/A
8.0/10121 votesLoading...#24 - Kamuy Hopunire
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/2018
Tanigaki informs Asirpa of Huci's failing health, though Asirpa wishes to continue the search for the gold. They are joined by Nihei's dog Ryu, who has followed the scent of his former master's gun, now carried by Tanigaki. Meanwhile, Tsurumi tells Koito the truth behind the death of Lt. General Kōjirō Hanazawa, former commander of the 7th. Hanazawa abandoned Ogata, his illegitimate son, rendering his mistress neurotic. Ogata poisoned his mother, killed his half-brother (Hanazawa's legitimate son) at the Battle of 203 Hill, and murdered his father, staging his death to resemble a ritual suicide in penance for the loss at 203 Hill. Tsurumi exploited Hanazawa's death to motivate the 7th against the Japanese government.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10114 votesLoading...#25 - The Sound of an Ambush
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/2018
At a village near Lake Kussharo, Sugimoto's group learn about a group of blind bandits led by a man with strange tattoos. Shiraishi identifies him as Toni Anji, an Abashiri prisoner. The group is attacked by the bandits while the men are bathing in an onsen, but are rescued by Hijikata and Ushiyama, who are seeking Anji's tattoo. Mid-escape, Inkarmat has a premonition the she will die after falling underwater, but is saved by Tanigaki. Meanwhile, Usami reports to Lt. Tsurumi that Inudō is stockpiling weapons.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Golden Kamuy
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In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto scratches out a meager existence during the postwar gold rush in the wilderness of...
Genres:Action & AdventureAnimationComedy
Network:Tokyo MX
Worst Episodes Summary
"Wenkamuy" is the worst rated episode of "Golden Kamuy". It scored 7.2/10 based on 192 votes. Directed by Takahiro Kawakoshi and written by Noboru Takagi, it aired on 4/9/2018. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Trickster Fox".