Shadow Work

Drama·シャドウワーク
Shadow Work
2025/11/23
Speech time
1h 1min
Word count5,883
Unique words
1,395
Unique kanji
668
Avg. sentence10.2
Speech speed
250
Difficulty Hard
Episodes2
Rating
83 %

A battered wife who's lost her sense of self after years of domestic abuse finds hope when she escapes to a seaside house where women in similar situations help her rediscover her identity, but the home's hidden rules force her to confront painful truths in a heart-wrenching journey toward healing.

Genres
Drama
Mystery
SourcesTMDB

Japanese study overview

Shadow Work is a Japanese drama of 13,730 characters, with 1,395 unique words and 668 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,395 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

Episode 1

Speech time
30min
Word count2,986
Unique words
954
Unique kanji
515
Avg. sentence10.3
Speech speed
258
Difficulty Hard

Episode 2

Speech time
31min
Word count2,897
Unique words
859
Unique kanji
454
Avg. sentence10.2
Speech speed
242
Difficulty Average

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Vocabulary highlights

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