This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind woman against a sinister plot. Her assailants then send against him another samurai, named Sana, who is without scruples. The fight between them will become personal, for the honor and love of the blind woman.
Japanese study overview
Kiba Ookaminosuke is a Japanese movie of 7,402 characters, with 939 unique words and 437 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 939 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.
- 牙tusk×33
- 様Mr×28
- 俺I×27
- 両both (hands, parents, sides, etc.)×23
- 問屋wholesale store×17
- 待つto wait×17
- お前you×17
- 場place×16
- 左left×16
- 仁benevolence (esp. as a virtue of Confucianism)×15
- 門gate×15
- 斬るto kill (a human) using a blade (sword, machete, knife, etc.)×14
- 清造Kiyozou×12
- 千世Kazuyo×12
- 宿場relay station (esp. on Edo-period highway)×11
- 人足coolie×6
- 荒remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting)×5
- 井宿Chinese "Well" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)×5
- 秋月Akizuki×5
- 弥助sushi×5