A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the child, now a stable boy, is reunited with his father, but feudal codes threaten their happiness. Uchida’s poignant masterpiece condemns the inflexible class system and launches an indictment of values that favor symbolic objects over human life. The film’s focus is on character rather than swordplay, and charged performances - especially child actor Motoharu Ueki - add to the emotional power.
Japanese study overview
Abarenbo Kaido is a Japanese movie of 12,420 characters, with 1,357 unique words and 551 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,357 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.
- 三吉Sankichi×35
- お前you×30
- 言うto say×27
- 俺I×27
- 親方master×24
- 刀sword (esp. Japanese single-edged)×21
- 子child×20
- 様Mr×18
- 知るto know×16
- 子供child×15
- 侍するto wait upon×15
- 姫young lady of noble birth×15
- 馬方packhorse driver×13
- 馬子packhorse driver×12
- 乳母wet nurse×11
- 与作Yosaku×10
- 重野Shigeno×8
- 三公three lords (highest ranking officials in the old Imperial Chinese or Japanese governments)×7
- 源次郎Genshirou×7
- 双六race game (board game played with dice in which the object is to reach the end of a track)×7