1996/04/13
Speech timeSpeech duration
59minWord count6,143
Unique words · 1,000 once
1,634 Unique kanji · 280 once
721Avg. sentenceAverage sentence length11.7
Speech speed
277 Difficulty Average
RatingExternal Rating
65 %Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by the newspaper's owner, along with the young Yuko Kurita, to provide recipes for the "ultimate menu".
Genres
Drama
Japanese study overview
Oishinbo is a Japanese movie of 14,550 characters, with 1,634 unique words and 721 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,634 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 私I×46
- 山岡Yamaoka×45
- 先生teacher×42
- 味flavor×38
- 食べるto eat×31
- 究極ultimate×27
- 雄山Oyama×23
- 豆legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, e.g. beans, peas, pulses)×19
- 待つto wait×18
- 至高supreme×17
- 煮豆simmered beans×16
- 君Mr×14
- 栗田Kurita×10
- 海原Unahara×9
- 里美Satomi×8
- 跳るto jump up×8
- 垣fence×8
- 文化部culture club (e.g. at school)×7
- 乞食beggar×7
- 丹波Tanba (former province located in parts of present-day Kyoto, Hyogo and Osaka prefectures)×6