After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in top form and is ranked number one, for a title fight, but his comrade Hata (Kojiro Hongo) is not happy with this choice, and so he moves to the gym run by the criminal businessman Goda (Toru Abe) and burning desire to beat Yamanaka.
Japanese study overview
Shori to Haiboku is a Japanese movie of 23,685 characters, with 1,961 unique words and 731 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,961 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 旗flag×127
- 俺I×73
- 私I×46
- 山中in the mountains×44
- 吉川Kikawa×43
- 試合match×41
- お前you×38
- 言うto say×36
- 拳闘boxing×33
- 会長president (of a society)×32
- 丘野Okano×27
- 峰岸Konegishi×27
- 郷田Kida×24
- 山中Sanchuu×23
- 淳Aki×19
- 辻井Tsujii×8
- ライト級lightweight×6
- 新鋭young and energetic×5
- 全日本all of Japan×4
- 決定戦deciding match×4