Hōchū Ōtsuka as Lieutenant Tsurumi, a rebellious officer who plans to use the Ainu gold as war-capital to institute a military coup to take over Hokkaido.
Lieutenant Tsurumi wears a metal plate on his forehead to cover a severe wound that he received from an artillery bombardment during the Russo-Japanese War.
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 Hokkaido.