1961/08/26
Speech timeSpeech duration
52minWord count7,617
Unique words · 1,027 once
1,809 Unique kanji · 260 once
805Speech speed
383 Difficulty Hard
RatingExternal Rating
80 %The film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Tsutomu Mizukami. A large-scale detective drama in which two newspaper reporters investigate the mysterious death of a teacher in Hokuriku and the dark suspicions that lurk behind it.
Genres
Drama
Thriller
Japanese study overview
Kiri to Kage is a Japanese movie of 17,315 characters, with 1,809 unique words and 805 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,809 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.
- 宇田Imota×49
- 笠原Kasahara×44
- 小宮Komiya×32
- 言うto say×29
- 僕I×28
- 俺I×28
- 君you×28
- 男man×26
- 薬売りtraveling patent-medicine salesman×24
- 思うto think×22
- 人person×22
- 甚平light cotton summer clothing consisting of knee-length shorts and short-sleeved jacket×22
- 猿谷En'ya×19
- 興信所detective agency×14
- 富山Toyama (city, prefecture)×13
- 部落hamlet×11
- 郷hometown×11
- 松木Matsuki×11
- 洋行overseas travel (to Western countries)×11
- 怜子Satoko×11