Barely scraping by making an honest living as a rural yakuza, Hachiya (Yasukaze Motomiya) dreams of the City of Flowers. Unable to conceal their growing frustration at their everyday lives, he and his partner, Sagane (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), choose to pursue their own paths as yakuza, hiding a new major source of income from the family. But when the family captain (Kazuyoshi Ozawa) shows up for the first time in ten years...
Japanese study overview
Firebrands is a Japanese movie of 12,904 characters, with 1,330 unique words and 584 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,330 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- お前you×56
- 俺I×49
- 言うto say×26
- 藤岡Fujioka×23
- 兄貴elder brother×23
- 照井Terai×22
- 一家a family×18
- 鯨井Kujii×16
- 思うto think×16
- お前らyou (plural)×15
- 蜂谷Hataya×13
- 山崎Yamasa×13
- 三浦Miura×7
- 大成completion×7
- 嵯峨根Sakane×6
- 阿部Abu×6
- 若い衆young man×5
- 部屋住みan adult-age eldest son who has yet to come into his inheritance×4
- 河合Kaai×4
- 任侠chivalry×3