Finding more freedom on the high seas than in war-torn Japan, the 'Bahansen' (Pirate ships) based on the Seto Inland Sea during the Warring Period (Sengoku-jidai)sailed to China, Korea, Luzon, and Siam under the Hachiman banner. A battle for supremacy of the seas begins when a strange old shipwreck survivor is brought to Sakai where he divulges a secret that can change the course of history.One of the most literate and well-written films from Toei, this is an exciting tale of swashbuckling samurai on the high seas!
Japanese study overview
Kaizoku Bahansen is a Japanese movie of 11,956 characters, with 1,340 unique words and 615 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,340 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.
- 船ship×101
- 鹿門Rokumon×58
- 盲blindness×54
- 様Mr×43
- 八幡船Japanese pirate ship (of the Middle Ages)×39
- 俺I×39
- 小静Koshizu×37
- 言うto say×33
- 待つto wait×32
- 撃つto shoot (a gun, person, etc.)×32
- 頭領head×28
- 右衛門Uemon×24
- 太夫high-ranking noh actor×22
- 堺Sakai×14
- 伝馬post horse×13
- 道休Dōkyū×10
- 謝花Zahana×10
- 壺屋Tsuboya×9
- 若旦那young master×9
- 丹後Tango (former province located in the north of present-day Kyoto Prefecture)×9