Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days gambling, vandalizing cars, and drinking booze. Two years later and his life is no better. A debt collector named Endo arrives to collect money owed. The debt collector offers two choices to Kaiji: spend 10 years paying off his loan or board a gambling boat for one night to repay his debt & possibly make a boat load of money. Could the debt collector Endo actually be setting up Kaiji? One way or another, for Kaiji it's going to be the night of his life.
Japanese study overview
Kaiji: Jinsei Gyakuten Game is a Japanese movie of 19,144 characters, with 1,868 unique words and 736 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,868 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.
- 俺I×111
- 勝つto win×68
- お前you×33
- 奴隷slave×32
- 勝負victory or defeat×28
- 自分myself×26
- 待つto wait×24
- 血blood×24
- 星star (usu. excluding the Sun)×23
- 負けるto lose×23
- 出すto take out×21
- 言うto say×20
- 利根川Sanegawa×12
- 船井Funai×10
- 佐原Sahara×10
- 負け組losers (of society)×7
- 中心線centre line×7
- 複利compound interest×4
- 金利interest rate×4
- 焼き印brand (burnt-in mark of identification)×3