A teenage boy discovers that the planet Icarus is on a collision course with Earth by gazing through his telescope. Scoffed at by the scientific establishment, the boy is kidnapped and brought to a secret UN base in the Japan alps. He is immediately inducted into the secret program whose mission is to finish the Super-Destruction Beam cannon and destroy Icarus. The cannon is missing a special mineral for the lens. The team heads for a mysterious island in the middle of the Pacific. There they find ancient ruins of Atlantis but they are suddenly attacked by a strange drill shaped metal squid spaceship. It's commanded by the evil being Nazu who has engineered the collision with Icarus! He doesn't want to share the universe with humans and he really doesn't want the cannon finished. The action is on and the team discovers the Golden Bat who has been asleep for over 10,000 years awaiting this very moment to save the earth!
Japanese study overview
Ougon Bat is a Japanese movie of 7,842 characters, with 912 unique words and 487 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 912 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.
- 黄金gold (Au)×44
- 破壊destruction×41
- 地球Earth×33
- 光線ray (of light)×33
- 超super-×30
- 砲gun×28
- 博士expert×23
- 隊長captain×19
- 君Mr×15
- 激突crash×15
- 我々we×15
- おじい様grandfather×15
- 射程距離range (of a rifle, missile, etc.)×7
- 風早Kazahaya×6
- 別動隊flying column×4
- 潜水艦submarine×3
- 言うto say×13
- 宇宙universe×11
- 時time×11
- 軌道orbit×10