Nippon Konchuuki
Movie
1963/11/16
Character count22,917
Word count9,833
Unique words1,915
Words (1-occurrence)1,027
Unique kanji752
Kanji (1-occurrence)258
Difficulty beta
Hard External Rating
73 %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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