1954/04/26
Speech timeSpeech duration
1hWord count7,548
Unique words · 912 once
1,656 Unique kanji · 200 once
626Avg. sentenceAverage sentence length9.7
Speech speed
309 Difficulty Hard
RatingExternal Rating
85 %A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
Japanese study overview
Shichinin no Samurai is a Japanese movie of 16,522 characters, with 1,656 unique words and 626 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,656 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.
- 侍warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period)×64
- 言うto say×43
- 俺I×39
- 百姓farmer×32
- お前you×30
- 菊千代Kikuchiyo×28
- 村village×27
- 野伏せりmountain-dwelling robber×24
- 様Mr×24
- 貴様you×22
- 志乃Shino×22
- 野武士wandering samurai×22
- 勝四郎Katsushirou×20
- 与平Yohei×20
- 万造Manzou×17
- 利吉Toshikichi×16
- 種子島Tanegashima (Japanese matchlock gun)×7
- 一騎one horseman×6
- 談合bid rigging×5
- 稗barnyard millet (Echinochloa esculenta)×5