Four Lies

Drama·四つの嘘
Four Lies
2008/07/10
Speech time
4h 7min
Word count25,827
Unique words
3,862
Unique kanji
1,197
Speech speed
292
Difficulty Hard
Episodes3
Rating
80 %

This renzoku follows four women in the "around 40" generation. Shifumi is an attractive woman who stole her classmate's boyfriend in high school, and despite criticism from others, she got married and had a child. However, she soon divorced and currently keeps a younger boyfriend. Three of Shifumi's former classmates: ordinary housewife Makiko, work-focused doctor Neri, and housewife Miwa. Miwa is having an affair with Shifumi's ex-husband Keishi (the boyfriend Shifumi originally stole from her.) Eventually, the various secrets and lies kept by the four women all come to light.

Genres
Drama
SourcesTMDB

Japanese study overview

Four Lies is a Japanese drama of 63,340 characters, with 3,862 unique words and 1,197 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,862 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

Episode 1

Speech time
1h 24min
Word count9,273
Unique words
2,049
Unique kanji
868
Speech speed
308
Difficulty Hard

Episode 2

Speech time
1h 18min
Word count8,209
Unique words
1,906
Unique kanji
782
Speech speed
291
Difficulty Average

Episode 3

Speech time
1h 24min
Word count8,345
Unique words
1,839
Unique kanji
767
Speech speed
278
Difficulty Hard

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Vocabulary highlights

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