Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai

Movie·私は貝になりたい·I Want to Be a Shellfish
Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai
1959/04/12
Speech time
55min
Word count7,564
Unique words
2,038
Unique kanji
831
Speech speed
324
Difficulty Hard
Rating
100 %

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder.

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Japanese study overview

Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai is a Japanese movie of 17,498 characters, with 2,038 unique words and 831 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,038 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.

See the full vocabulary list (2,038 words)