Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school teacher. His girlfriend was killed, which led him to quit his job and attempt to take revenge on her murderer. To do so, Suzuki has to infiltrate the underground world of criminals. Kujira is a contract killer for hire. He makes his targets fall into confusion and eventually commit suicide. Semi is a contract killer who uses the knife to take out his targets.
Japanese study overview
Grasshopper is a Japanese movie of 9,877 characters, with 1,131 unique words and 512 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,131 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.
- お前you×31
- 俺I×26
- 殺すto kill×25
- 寺原Terahara×23
- 鈴木Susuki×22
- 仕事work×18
- 待つto wait×16
- 僕I×15
- 男man×13
- 死ぬto die×11
- 罪crime×11
- 今now×11
- 押し屋commuter train packer×7
- 岩西Iwanishi×7
- 百合子Sayuri×5
- バカ女stupid girl×3
- 群集crowd×3
- 考えるto think (about, of)×11
- 会長president (of a society)×10
- 前in front (of)×10