1960/02/28
Speech timeSpeech duration
1h 18minWord count9,386
Unique words · 1,028 once
1,878 Unique kanji · 251 once
693Avg. sentenceAverage sentence length10.2
Speech speed
314 Difficulty Average
Musical about the "Blue Star," a struggling jazz band led by pianist Takarada and trumpet player Takashima and their love interests. Done very much in the style of a Fox musical of the same 1940s, complete with an elaborate "History of Jazz" finale.
Genres
Drama
Music
Japanese study overview
Arashi wo Yobu Gakudan is a Japanese movie of 22,590 characters, with 1,878 unique words and 693 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,878 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.
- 僕I×58
- 三谷Sangaya×48
- 宏志Atsushi×46
- 言うto say×38
- 私I×31
- 思うto think×30
- 君you×28
- 昔the old days×27
- 帰るto return×23
- 牧pasture×23
- 人person×20
- 若旦那young master×20
- 鉄ちゃんtrainspotter×15
- 天路deva realm (svarga)×14
- ルリ子Ruriko×13
- 番頭chief clerk (in a shop, managing affairs on the owner's behalf)×13
- 楽団orchestra×11
- 火の鳥phoenix (esp. fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix)×8
- セツ子Setsuko×6
- 牧Urara×5