Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
Japanese study overview
Tsubaki Sanjuurou is a Japanese movie of 13,447 characters, with 1,447 unique words and 621 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,447 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 俺I×58
- 菊井Kikui×52
- 城代chamberlain×43
- 言うto say×30
- 貴様you×24
- 達pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)×23
- 奴らthey×23
- 我々we×22
- 椿common camellia (Camellia japonica)×22
- 伯父uncle×21
- 待つto wait×21
- 大目付(government) inspector-general (Edo period)×18
- 駕篭palanquin×15
- 黒藤Kurofuji×13
- 家老chief retainer×10
- 室戸Muroto×10
- 手勢one's troops×10
- 長屋tenement house×7
- 伊織Io×7
- 光明寺Kōmyouji×7