1984/09/01
Speech timeSpeech duration
57minWord count5,130
Unique words · 1,024 once
1,601 Unique kanji · 299 once
747Speech speed
231 Difficulty Expert
RatingExternal Rating
55 %Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced to forced labor to build the roads needed to open up the territory.
Genres
Drama
Japanese study overview
Kita No Hotaru is a Japanese movie of 11,511 characters, with 1,601 unique words and 747 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.1 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,601 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.
- 典獄prison warden×63
- 北海道Hokkaido (island, prefectural-level administrative unit)×20
- 言うto say×19
- 囚人prisoner×18
- 月形crescent shape×18
- 監special Nara-period administrative division for areas containing a detached palace (Yoshino and Izumi)×15
- 集治Shuuji×14
- 死ぬto die×14
- 海sea×14
- 私I×12
- 看守prison guard×11
- 早くearly×11
- 津軽Tsugaru (western region of Aomori Prefecture)×9
- 峰延Minenobu×8
- 木藤Kitō×8
- 囚imprisonment×7
- 樺戸Kabato×6
- 永倉Eikura×6
- 赦免pardon×5
- 樺太Karafuto (Japanese name for Sakhalin)×5