1996/04/13
Speech timeSpeech duration
59minWord count6,318
Unique words · 1,015 once
1,671 Unique kanji · 281 once
737Speech speed
277 Difficulty Hard
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 15,167 characters, with 1,671 unique words and 737 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,671 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Similar Media
xx% = content similarityAll types
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 山岡Yamaoka×46
- 私I×46
- 先生teacher×42
- 味flavor×38
- 食べるto eat×31
- 究極ultimate×27
- 雄山Oyama×24
- 富井Tomii×20
- 里美Satomi×19
- 豆legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, e.g. beans, peas, pulses)×19
- 待つto wait×18
- 谷村Tanimura×18
- 京極Kyōkyoku×18
- 中川Nakakawa×17
- 大原Oohara×16
- 煮豆simmered beans×16
- 小泉Oizumi×15
- 辰the Dragon (fifth sign of the Chinese zodiac)×14
- 跳るto jump up×8
- 垣fence×8