1988/07/16
Speech timeSpeech duration
44minWord count4,064
Unique words · 741 once
1,177 Unique kanji · 246 once
548Avg. sentenceAverage sentence length8.3
Speech speed
239 Difficulty Average
RatingExternal Rating
70 %Based on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the opposite shore on Zamami to see his love, a dog named Marilyn. Shiro is portrayed by the real-life Shiro.
Japanese study overview
Marilyn ni Aitai is a Japanese movie of 9,630 characters, with 1,177 unique words and 548 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,177 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.
- 大輔Taisuke×27
- 帰るto return×25
- お前you×21
- 民宿guest house×20
- 俺I×20
- 大large×20
- 言うto say×20
- 泳ぐto swim×16
- 島island×12
- 兄貴elder brother×12
- 思うto think×12
- 映画movie×10
- 阿嘉島Akajima×7
- 達郎Tatsuo×5
- 皆美Tomomi×5
- 海峡channel (e.g. between two land masses)×5
- 那覇Naha (city in Okinawa)×4
- 佐和子Sachiko×4
- 島民islander×3
- 待つto wait×10