1962/01/14
Speech timeSpeech duration
53minWord count5,608
Unique words · 880 once
1,489 Unique kanji · 238 once
585Avg. sentenceAverage sentence length10.5
Speech speed
276 Difficulty Hard
RatingExternal Rating
66 %Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza. When he hears that his mother may be living in Edo (Tokyo), he travels there, intent on finding her and leaving the swordsman's life behind. But a team of rival gangsters is hot on his heels.
Japanese study overview
Mabuta no Haha is a Japanese movie of 13,013 characters, with 1,489 unique words and 585 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,489 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.
- 忠太郎Tadatarō×46
- 私I×39
- 兄さんolder brother×39
- 俺I×37
- 言うto say×24
- 待つto wait×23
- 半次Hanji×23
- 聞くto hear×20
- 半次郎Hanjirō×18
- 番場Hanba×18
- 帰るto return×17
- お前you×17
- 江州Esu×11
- 金町Kanamachi×9
- 飯岡Iioka×7
- 助五郎Sukegorou×6
- 貸元financier×5
- 夜鷹grey nightjar (Caprimulgus indicus)×5
- 生みbirth×4
- ぶった斬るto chop×3