The season shifts focus toward . While Sugimoto remains obsessed with protecting her from the "curse" of the gold, Asirpa realizes she must use the treasure to preserve Ainu culture. This creates a subtle rift: Sugimoto wants her to live a peaceful life, but Asirpa is determined to be a "powerful shield" and leader for her people.

The crew encounters Sekiya Waichirou , a deadly convict who uses poisons to "test people's luck." He kidnaps Hijikata and poisons Ushiyama, leading to a tense showdown involving Kadokura's legendary bad luck.

Sugimoto and Asirpa cross the Russian border back into Japan, navigating frozen landscapes and escaping Tsurumi’s naval pursuit across ice floes.

The fourth season of Golden Kamuy picks up immediately after the high-stakes reunion of and Asirpa in Karafuto. Following the death of Kiroranke, the duo escapes back toward Hokkaido while being pursued by First Lieutenant Tsurumi's 7th Division . Key Story Arcs

Flashbacks dive deep into the origins of Tsurumi's loyalists, particularly Usami and Koito , revealing how Tsurumi manipulated their devotion through "love" rather than just duty. Emotional Core & Conflict

A major new player, Botaro the Pirate (Oosawa Fusatarou), joins the hunt. He dreams of using the gold to build his own kingdom and provides Asirpa with a vital clue—an Ainu gold coin—that changes her perspective on her father, Wilk.

Where it was filmed 'L'ultimo Paradiso'

The director Rocco Ricciardulli, from Bernalda, shot his second film, L’ultimo Paradiso between October and December 2019, several dozen kilometres from his childhood home in the Murgia countryside on the border of the Apulia and Basilicata regions. The beautiful, albeit dry and arid landscape frames a story inspired by real-life events relating to the gangmaster scourge of Italy’s martyred lands. It is set in the late 1950’s, an era when certain ancestral practices of aristocratic landowners, archaic professions and a rigid division of work, owners and farmhands, oppressors and oppressed still exist and the economic boom is still far away, in time and space.

The borgo of Gravina in Puglia, where time seems to stand still, is perched at a height of 400m on a limestone deposit part of the fossa bradanica in the heart of the Parco nazionale dell’Alta Murgia. The film immortalizes the town’s alleyways, ancient residences and evocative aqueduct bridging the Gravina river. The surrounding wild nature, including olive trees, Mediterranean maquis and hectares of farm land, provides the typical colours and light of these latitudes. Just outside the residential centre, on the slopes of the Botromagno hill, which gives its name to the largest archaeological area in Apulia, is the Parco naturalistico di Capotenda, whose nature is so pristine and untouched that it provided a perfect natural backdrop for a late 1950s setting.

The alternative to oppression is departure: a choice made by Antonio whom we first meet in Trieste at the foot of the fountain of the Four Continents whose Baroque appearance decorates the majestic piazza Unità d’Italia.