Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.
Japanese study overview
Kedamono no Ken is a Japanese movie of 12,082 characters, with 1,434 unique words and 625 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,434 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.
- 砂金gold dust×45
- 待つto wait×41
- 俺I×38
- 旦那master (of a house, shop, etc.)×27
- 藩han (estate of a daimyo in the Edo and early Meiji periods)×20
- 御honorific/polite/humble prefix×20
- 私I×19
- 弦之助Gennosuke×19
- 家老chief retainer×19
- 山mountain×18
- 斬るto kill (a human) using a blade (sword, machete, knife, etc.)×17
- お前you×15
- 城代chamberlain×10
- 美沙Mi-sha×10
- 師範instructor (esp. of martial or traditional arts)×8
- 川上upper reaches of a river×7
- 大三郎Daisaburō×6
- 盗掘illegal digging×6
- 山岡Yamaoka×5
- 監物Orimono×5