Nippon Konchuuki
Movie
にっぽん昆虫記 1963/11/16
Character count22,948
Word count9,403
Unique words1,942
Words (1-occurrence)1,023
Unique kanji752
Kanji (1-occurrence)258
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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