Upon receiving a message from an old friend’s daughter, Goro arrives in Paris and learns of the elderly man’s wish to taste a particular soup he had in his childhood before he dies. Deciding to help, Goro sets out on a quest to find this mysterious soup, traveling through Japan, braving a storm, and even ending up in South Korea.
Japanese study overview
Gekieiga: Kodoku no Gourmet is a Japanese movie of 12,444 characters, with 1,251 unique words and 543 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,251 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.
- 腹abdomen×30
- 俺I×23
- 島island×23
- 汁juice×21
- 食材foodstuff×20
- 井之Ino×17
- 頭head×15
- 作るto make×15
- 韓国South Korea×14
- 探すto search for×13
- 五郎Itsuo×13
- 出汁dashi×13
- 椎茸shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes)×6
- 豚骨pork bones×6
- 滝山Takiyama×6
- 五島Itsushima×5
- 煮干し(small crunchy) dried sardines×5
- 五島列島Gotou Archipelago×4
- 海の幸seafood×4
- 山の幸food of the mountains (wild game, mountain vegetables, mushrooms, etc.)×4