
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.
Samurai is a Japanese movie of 20,337 characters, with 2,359 unique words and 926 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,359 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.