In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean. When the Shogun passes away, his concubines are forced to become nuns, which they are not happy to be. The subject is life inside a shogun's harem, and the treatment is again more restrained than in most of the historical pinku eiga films being produced by independents at the time, but the tone of this middle installment in the trilogy is decidedly more grim than that of its predecessor. There's a good deal of abuse and violence on display, as the shogun dies and his concubines are sent to a remote convent to become buddhist nuns. the hysterical nuns are being punished for their transgressions and committing suicide in grand exploitation fashion.
Japanese study overview
Zoku Oooku (Hi) Monogatari is a Japanese movie of 12,438 characters, with 1,424 unique words and 628 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,424 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.
- 様Mr×102
- 上様emperor×51
- 私I×47
- 院house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.)×40
- 遠藤Etō×33
- 将軍general×27
- 阿部Abu×22
- お前you×21
- 女woman×18
- 姉older sister×17
- 妙strange×17
- 密通adultery×17
- 大奥inner palace (in Edo Castle)×13
- 浄心Jōshin×12
- 板倉Itakura×11
- 中臈court ladies of the middle rank serving in the inner palace (Heian period)×9
- 老中member of shogun's council of elders×9
- お手つきtouching a wrong card (in karuta)×7
- 家治Ieji×7
- 位牌Buddhist mortuary tablet×7