On Christmas Eve, a TV broadcasting station receives a phone call. The caller warns "I have set up a bomb at Ebisu in Tokyo." A contract worker for the TV broadcasting station and a housewife are accused by the Ebisu police as being the culprits. During this chaotic situation, a mysterious man silently watches as everything unfolds. A video clip is then uploaded to an online video website. The video contains a demand to talk with the Prime Minister during a live broadcast or a bomb will be detonated at 6 pm in Shibuya, Tokyo. Who is behind the bombings and who will stop them?
Japanese study overview
Silent Tokyo is a Japanese movie of 10,733 characters, with 1,233 unique words and 631 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,233 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.
- 爆弾bomb×26
- 言うto say×26
- 爆発explosion×23
- 渋谷Shibuya City (special ward of Tokyo)×22
- 私I×20
- 思うto think×14
- 早くearly×14
- 犯人offender×14
- 今now×13
- 総理prime minister (as the head of a cabinet government)×13
- 綾乃Ano×12
- 俺I×12
- 東京タワーTokyo Tower×8
- ハチ公Hachikō×8
- 恵比寿Ebisu×6
- 爆破予告bomb warning×6
- 磯山Ikuyama×5
- 基樹Motoki×5
- 来栖Kisai×4
- 爆破事件bombing incident×4