Writer-director Gu Su-yeon's new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing up as a delinquent zainichi Korean (Japanese-born, but of Korean ancestry) in the seaside city of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a working-class hellhole overflowing with sex and fury. Day after day, (fictional) Gu finds fresh foes and makes the local hoodlums want to kick his ass. While working multiple dead-end part-time jobs, he cruises around town on his scooter in search of gangland trouble: leaping across rooftops with irate hordes of punks in hot pursuit, running off with a fetching belle in a sailor suit, rescuing a schoolgirl from being gang-raped at a glue-sniffing orgy…
Japanese study overview
Hard Romanticker is a Japanese movie of 8,248 characters, with 826 unique words and 309 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 2.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 826 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.
- お前you×47
- 俺I×29
- 知るto know×29
- 辰the Dragon (fifth sign of the Chinese zodiac)×23
- 待つto wait×17
- 言うto say×17
- 聞くto hear×13
- 殺すto kill×12
- 誰who×11
- 帰るto return×11
- 死ぬto die×11
- 庄司Shoushi×10
- 高木Kōki×10
- 金子Kanako×8
- 小倉Okura×6
- 下関Shimoseki×5
- 好friendship×4
- 組class (of students)×9
- 誰かsomeone×8
- 何でwhy?×8