Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.
Japanese study overview
Chi to Suna is a Japanese movie of 17,349 characters, with 1,819 unique words and 726 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,819 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.
- 小杉Kosuki×69
- 俺I×67
- 犬山Inuyama×54
- 小杉small cedar×47
- 曹長master sergeant×45
- 持田Mochita×39
- 隊長commanding officer×33
- お前you×32
- 春spring×31
- 原田Harata×28
- 春Azuma×28
- 一同all present×26
- 軍楽military music×21
- 佐久間Kōtarō×20
- 見習apprenticeship×18
- 根津Nezu×15
- 聖者saint×13
- 葬儀屋funeral parlor (parlour)×11
- 小太鼓small drum×10
- 吉野Eshinu×9