1962/09/29
Speech timeSpeech duration
1h 33minWord count9,415
Unique words · 1,258 once
2,115 Unique kanji · 296 once
828Speech speed
275 Difficulty Hard
RatingExternal Rating
72 %Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.
Genres
Drama
Japanese study overview
Hourouki is a Japanese movie of 22,752 characters, with 2,115 unique words and 828 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,115 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.
- 私I×112
- 言うto say×60
- 書くto write×52
- 僕I×39
- 思うto think×33
- お前you×32
- 人person×32
- 男man×31
- 詩poem×29
- 出るto leave×28
- 時time×27
- 君you×27
- ふみ子Fumiko×19
- 安岡Yasuoka×17
- 福地Fukuji×17
- 日夏Nina×13
- 原稿料manuscript fee×9
- 淫売prostitution×7
- 女給waitress×5
- 近眼nearsightedness×4