A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.
Japanese study overview
Tetsuo is a Japanese movie of 2,635 characters, with 250 unique words and 127 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 250 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.
- 男man×90
- 女woman×38
- 音sound×25
- 叫び声shout×22
- うめき声groan×16
- 車car×15
- 音sound×12
- 笑い声(sound of) laughter×9
- 声voice×9
- 衝突collision×8
- 眼鏡glasses×8
- 金属音metallic sound×7
- 金属metal×6
- 男性man×5
- 力みstraining×5
- 荒いrough×4
- 息breath×4
- 悲鳴shriek×4
- 銃声sound of a gunshot×4
- 大概generally×4