During the reign of the 11th Shogun, a series of supernatural incidents occur every night in the Edo Castle. A beautiful inspector appears with thunder and lightning to suck people’s blood and kill them. The examiner’s true identity is Amakusa Shiro, a young samurai from the Amakusa clan that was destroyed by the harsh Christian persecution of the Shogunate. Shirō sold his soul to the devil and became an evil spirit. After 160 years since destruction of Amakusa, his revenge to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate begins.
Japanese study overview
Dokuro Kengyou is a Japanese movie of 7,862 characters, with 1,178 unique words and 634 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.1 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,178 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×62
- 御台wife of a shogun or a highest-ranking nobleman×27
- 私I×21
- 上様emperor×16
- 江戸Edo (shogunate capital; former name of Tokyo)×13
- 南無妙法蓮華経Glory to the Sutra×13
- 神god×11
- 不知火phosphorescent light×11
- 殿様nobleman×11
- 徳川Tokchon (North Korea)×11
- 美代Haruyo×11
- 琴絵Kotoe×11
- 伊豆守Izunokami×11
- 美緒Nio×11
- 茂子Shigeko×9
- 次郎吉Jiroukichi×8
- 大奥inner palace (in Edo Castle)×8
- お局様senior female worker who supervises junior employees in a domineering fashion×7
- 検校highest-ranking blind court official×6
- 殿御gentlemen×6