Shizumanu Taiyo

Drama·沈まぬ太陽·The Unbroken
Shizumanu Taiyo
2016/05/08
Speech time
9h 10min
Word count69,285
Unique words
8,433
Unique kanji
1,634
Speech speed
368
Difficulty Hard
Episodes20
Rating
82 %

WOWOW brings acclaimed author Toyoko Yamasaki's 1999 literary tour de force to life on the small screen for the very first time. Audiences have already received television adaptations of Yamasaki's other works – The Ivory Tower (白い巨塔), The Grand Family (華麗なる一族), The Waste Land (不毛地帯), A Son of the Good Earth (大地の子), and My Destiny (運命の人) – and can now add The Unbroken (沈まぬ太陽) to that list with this long-awaited production. Features a star-studded cast and additional filming on location in Africa and the Middle East.

Genres
Drama
SourcesTMDB

Japanese study overview

Shizumanu Taiyo is a Japanese drama of 168,399 characters, with 8,433 unique words and 1,634 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 8,433 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

Episode 1

Speech time
28min
Word count3,613
Unique words
1,288
Unique kanji
684
Speech speed
379
Difficulty Hard

Episode 2

Speech time
29min
Word count3,782
Unique words
1,128
Unique kanji
571
Speech speed
369
Difficulty Hard

Episode 3

Speech time
25min
Word count3,261
Unique words
1,056
Unique kanji
549
Speech speed
366
Difficulty Average

Episode 4

Speech time
27min
Word count3,424
Unique words
1,186
Unique kanji
608
Speech speed
351
Difficulty Average

Episode 5

Speech time
26min
Word count2,996
Unique words
1,119
Unique kanji
582
Speech speed
345
Difficulty Average

Episode 6

Speech time
24min
Word count2,967
Unique words
964
Unique kanji
512
Speech speed
349
Difficulty Average

Episode 7

Speech time
23min
Word count2,805
Unique words
1,025
Unique kanji
525
Speech speed
346
Difficulty Average

Episode 8

Speech time
23min
Word count3,007
Unique words
1,129
Unique kanji
590
Speech speed
372
Difficulty Hard

Episode 9

Speech time
26min
Word count3,209
Unique words
1,169
Unique kanji
630
Speech speed
378
Difficulty Hard

Episode 10

Speech time
23min
Word count2,725
Unique words
1,026
Unique kanji
562
Speech speed
349
Difficulty Hard

Episode 11

Speech time
28min
Word count3,508
Unique words
1,172
Unique kanji
596
Speech speed
360
Difficulty Hard

Episode 12

Speech time
28min
Word count3,613
Unique words
1,224
Unique kanji
636
Speech speed
375
Difficulty Hard

Episode 13

Speech time
29min
Word count3,650
Unique words
1,302
Unique kanji
689
Speech speed
379
Difficulty Hard

Episode 14

Speech time
31min
Word count4,285
Unique words
1,386
Unique kanji
687
Speech speed
399
Difficulty Hard

Episode 15

Speech time
32min
Word count4,190
Unique words
1,352
Unique kanji
680
Speech speed
378
Difficulty Hard

Episode 16

Speech time
31min
Word count4,034
Unique words
1,440
Unique kanji
706
Speech speed
374
Difficulty Hard

Episode 17

Speech time
26min
Word count3,333
Unique words
1,207
Unique kanji
662
Speech speed
379
Difficulty Hard

Episode 18

Speech time
29min
Word count4,040
Unique words
1,405
Unique kanji
720
Speech speed
401
Difficulty Hard

Episode 19

Speech time
26min
Word count3,240
Unique words
1,134
Unique kanji
607
Speech speed
360
Difficulty Hard

Episode 20

Speech time
28min
Word count3,603
Unique words
1,240
Unique kanji
667
Speech speed
360
Difficulty Hard

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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.

See the full vocabulary list (8,433 words)