Four Lies

Drama·四つの嘘
Four Lies
2008/07/10
Speech time
4h 7min
Word count26,516
Unique words
3,837
Unique kanji
1,197
Avg. sentence10.9
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 63,406 characters, with 3,837 unique words and 1,197 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,837 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 count9,511
Unique words
2,046
Unique kanji
868
Avg. sentence11.2
Speech speed
308
Difficulty Hard

Episode 2

Speech time
1h 18min
Word count8,432
Unique words
1,893
Unique kanji
782
Avg. sentence10.5
Speech speed
291
Difficulty Hard

Episode 3

Speech time
1h 24min
Word count8,573
Unique words
1,831
Unique kanji
767
Avg. sentence10.9
Speech speed
278
Difficulty Hard

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