A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be a profitable mistake for Yamazaki, an amateur crook who ends up with 80 million yen after a string of improbable accidents. But having so much cash doesn't make his life is any easier. In fact, it gets much more complicated when Yamazaki stabs a hairdresser by mistake and instantly becomes a hunted fugitive. He's just one unlucky monkey but can he turn his luck around?
Japanese study overview
Unlucky Monkey is a Japanese movie of 9,191 characters, with 1,202 unique words and 606 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,202 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.
- 殺すto kill×43
- 俺I×39
- 言うto say×19
- 人殺しmurder×17
- 思うto think×14
- 今日today×10
- 金money×10
- 水water (esp. cool or cold)×10
- 排水drainage×10
- 待つto wait×9
- 人間human being×9
- 立花Tachihana×9
- 水質water quality×5
- 大気汚染air pollution×4
- やくざ者professional gambler×3
- 町会town council×3
- 廃水wastewater×3
- 有機organic×3
- 高飛びfleeing (to a distant place to avoid arrest, capture, etc.)×3
- 生きるto live×9