Director Yoshiyuki Kishi and screenwriter Takehito Minato—the team behind acclaimed boxing epic Wilderness—reunite to adapt Ryo Asai's prize-winning novel. A sensitive drama about the aberrant in a society without regard for diversity, the story unites characters trying to hide abnormalities: a prosecutor who is worried that his pubescent son is a shut-in, an introverted saleswoman with a peculiar habit, and a student tortured by feelings she can’t express. In a world fill with abnormalities, what if it’s actually normal to be abnormal?
Japanese study overview
Seiyoku is a Japanese movie of 14,108 characters, with 1,536 unique words and 677 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.1 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,536 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.
- 思うto think×46
- 人person×31
- 私I×28
- 言うto say×21
- 生きるto live×20
- 君Mr×20
- 泰希Taiki×18
- 水water (esp. cool or cold)×18
- 子供child×17
- 自分myself×17
- 佐々木Sasaki×16
- 俺I×16
- 藤原Eriane×9
- 大也Daiya×9
- 桐生Kiriiku×9
- 悟Sato×8
- コメント欄comments section×4
- 辰the Dragon (fifth sign of the Chinese zodiac)×3
- 郎君young man×3
- 今now×15