An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an honourable outlaw who saves an older man from an ambush. It turns out the man is the head of a hard working clan appointed to a railway construction project. A ruthless yakuza gang is also trying to get their share of the project and attempts to sabotage the work. After the old man dies, his son (Sonny Chiba) and daughter (Junko Fuji) try to complete the project. Tsuruta joins them while also falling in love with a local woman working in a bar (after all, Tsuruta always was more of a lover than his stoic colleague Takakura).
Japanese study overview
Ryuko ichidai is a Japanese movie of 11,250 characters, with 1,347 unique words and 586 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.1 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,347 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.
- 鉄道railroad×35
- 松橋Matsuhashi×30
- 親方master×29
- 言うto say×26
- 俺I×25
- 待つto wait×19
- 男man×18
- 船頭captain (of a Japanese-style boat)×18
- 旦那master (of a house, shop, etc.)×18
- 父さんfather×17
- 工事construction work×14
- 直方Tadamichi×14
- 新一Arakazu×12
- 石岡Ishioka×11
- 若松young pine (tree)×9
- 旦那衆gents×9
- 石炭coal×8
- お雪Oyuki×8
- 草刈Kusakari×6
- 縄手footpath between rice fields×5