1994/10/22
Speech timeSpeech duration
51minWord count4,717
Unique words · 1,019 once
1,557 Unique kanji · 270 once
665Speech speed
249 Difficulty Hard
RatingExternal Rating
54 %Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a beautiful woman who falls victim to passion and evil.
Genres
Action
Drama
Fantasy
Horror
Japanese study overview
Chuushingura Gaiden: Yotsuya Kaidan is a Japanese movie of 10,930 characters, with 1,557 unique words and 665 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,557 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.
- 俺I×29
- お岩Oiwa×24
- 父上father×19
- 仇討ちvengeance×18
- 待つto wait×15
- 金money×15
- お前you×14
- 吉良Kichiyoshi×13
- 申すto say×13
- 言うto say×13
- 太夫high-ranking noh actor×13
- 民谷Tamigaya×13
- 伊右衛門Iemon×13
- 平左Hirasa×7
- 堀部Horibe×6
- 討ち入りstorming (e.g. an enemy's castle)×6
- 右衛門七Emoshichi×5
- 町人chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants)×4
- 悦self-satisfaction×4
- 遊興merrymaking (esp. wine and women)×4