Nippon Konchuuki
Movie
にっぽん昆虫記 1963/11/16
Character count22,941
Word count9,279
Unique words1,944
Unique words used once1,030
Unique kanji752
Unique kanji used once258
Difficulty beta Easy

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.

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