2025/08/22
Speech timeSpeech duration
1h 47minWord count9,587
Unique words · 975 once
1,882 Unique kanji · 252 once
775Avg. sentenceAverage sentence length10.1
Speech speed
248 Difficulty Average
Episodes7
RatingExternal Rating
85 %Haru Komatsubara, a quiet prisoner, working as a hairdresser in a unique prison beauty salon, reflects on guilt, redemption, and second chances as her sentence nears its end.
Genres
Drama
SourcesTMDB
Japanese study overview
Hei no Naka no Biyoushitsu is a Japanese drama of 23,570 characters, with 1,882 unique words and 775 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,882 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×105
- 思うto think×53
- 美容師beautician×49
- 美容室beauty parlor×43
- 葉leaf×40
- 留stationary point×40
- 人person×39
- 言うto say×33
- お母さんmother×33
- 髪hair (on the head)×26
- 奈津Natsu×21
- 前in front (of)×20
- 収容者(prison) inmate×12
- 小松原Omatsubara×12
- 彩Akari×7
- 刑務官prison officer×6
- 菅生Sugai×5
- 実沙Misa×5
- 受刑者prisoner×4
- 刑務作業penal labour×4