Residents in a town have a hard time due to the land tax and forced labor. 9 people, including Juzaburo Kokutaya (Sadao Abe), worry about the future of their town. They then set up a plan to save the town. The plan is to lend large amounts of money to han (historical term for the estate of a warrior) and distribute the interest annually to the residents, but if they're caught they will lose their lives.
Japanese study overview
Tono, Risoku de Gozaru! is a Japanese movie of 16,747 characters, with 1,872 unique words and 792 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,872 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.
- 屋shop×74
- 私I×56
- 肝煎good offices×42
- お上the Emperor×41
- 貫kan (obs. unit of weight, approx. 3.75 kg, 8.3 lb)×41
- 銭round coin with a (square) hole in the center×40
- 文sentence×33
- 出すto take out×30
- 様Mr×29
- 宿場relay station (esp. on Edo-period highway)×27
- 者person×26
- 浅野Asano×26
- 穀田Kokuta×22
- 利息interest (on a loan, deposit etc.)×18
- 千両glabrous sarcandra herb (Sarcandra glabra)×18
- 菅原Kanbara×16
- 百姓farmer×15
- 伝馬post horse×15
- 吉岡Kichioka×14
- 萱場Kaba×12