Produced by Hitoshi Matsumoto, Documental pits ten comedians against each other. The objective is to make each other laugh in a closed room. Each contestant brings a one million yen participation fee. The last person to stay in the room without laughing wins. The winner is awarded a 10 million yen prize and bragging rights as the funniest comedian.
Japanese study overview
HITOSHI MATSUMOTO Presents Documental is a Japanese drama of 683,263 characters, with 13,368 unique words and 1,849 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 13,368 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 言うto say×1,499
- 笑うto laugh×1,403
- 俺I×1,395
- 思うto think×1,133
- 今now×966
- 僕I×842
- 出るto leave×800
- お前you×768
- 誰who×702
- 笑laugh×672
- 笑い声(sound of) laughter×661
- 松本Masamoto×657
- 後藤Gatō×217
- 長州Chōshū×165
- 久保田Kubota×125
- 藤本Hijimoto×114
- 小峠Otōge×107
- 湾岸gulf coast×97
- 大悟enlightenment×91
- 粗品small present×72