Thief Yaheiji (Keizo Kanie) helped a dying young samurai (Hiroaki Murakami), after recovering, he lost his memory and returned to Edo under the name of Yataro Tanigawa. Yaheiji meets Yataro again in Edo, by which time Yataro has become a dark hunter (Hired Assassin). The boss of thieves to whom Yaheiji obeys is killed, and Yaheiji participates in the battle to take his place Yataro helps him defeat and save his life, and Yaheiji also tries to save Yataro from the world of assassins... The drama "Dark Hunter" is based on the novel by Shotaro Ikenami, who is best known for his TV series Onihei Hankacho, Kenkaku Shobai and Fujieda Baian's Shikake-nin. The film version directed by Hideo Gosha is well known, but this version is more faithful to the original.
Japanese study overview
Yami no Karyuudo is a Japanese movie of 14,965 characters, with 1,540 unique words and 615 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,540 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.
- 私I×53
- 弥太郎Yatarō×39
- 人person×37
- 様Mr×34
- 弥平次Yaheiji×30
- 俺I×29
- 笹尾Sasao×29
- 殿Mr.×26
- 平三郎Hirasaburō×25
- お前さんyou×24
- 清右衛門Kiyouemon×22
- 思うto think×21
- 谷川mountain stream×20
- 新兵衛Shinbei×16
- 元締めmanager×14
- 小頭head of an organizational section×12
- 越後Echigo (former province located in present-day Niigata Prefecture)×11
- 伴助Hansuke×11
- 豊丸Toyomaru×11
- 土岐Tsuchiki×9