Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago. The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes across a mysterious cassette tape. Meanwhile, Toshiya Sone lives in Kyoto and runs a tailor shop. He discovers a cassette tape among his late father's possessions. He plays the cassette tape and hears his voice from his childhood days.
Japanese study overview
Sumi no Koe is a Japanese movie of 566 characters, with 138 unique words and 83 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 138 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.
- 事件event×7
- 中国人Chinese person×6
- 男man×4
- 知るto know×4
- 警察police×3
- 当時at that time×3
- 親しいclose (e.g. friend)×3
- 調べるto examine×2
- 探すto search for×2
- 住むto live (of humans)×2
- 誰who×2
- 日本Japan×1
- 記者reporter×1
- 暇spare time×1
- 年year×1
- 前in front (of)×1
- 調べinvestigation×1
- 別に(not) particularly×1
- 萬10,000×1
- 取材gathering material (for an article, novel, etc.)×1