1961/08/26
Speech timeSpeech duration
52minWord count7,682
Unique words · 1,012 once
1,785 Unique kanji · 259 once
796Avg. sentenceAverage sentence length13.2
Speech 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 17,138 characters, with 1,785 unique words and 796 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,785 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×45
- 小宮Komiya×32
- 君you×30
- 言うto say×29
- 僕I×28
- 俺I×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
- 郷hometown×13
- 富山Toyama (city, prefecture)×13
- 部落hamlet×11
- 松木Matsuki×11
- 洋行overseas travel (to Western countries)×11
- 怜子Satoko×11