
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.
Chi to Suna is a Japanese movie of 15,703 characters, with 1,750 unique words and 708 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,750 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.