Nippon Konchuuki
Movie
にっぽん昆虫記
1963/11/16
Character count22,917
Word count9,826
Unique words1,913
Words (1-occurrence)1,028
Unique kanji752
Kanji (1-occurrence)258
Difficulty beta
Hard
External Rating
72 %

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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Genres
Drama