1952/10/09
Speech timeSpeech duration
56minWord count7,839
Unique words · 1,060 once
1,791 Unique kanji · 275 once
783Speech speed
358 Difficulty ≈ Hard
RatingExternal Rating
83 %Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Genres
Drama
Japanese study overview
Ikiru is a Japanese movie of 17,828 characters, with 1,791 unique words and 783 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,791 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.
- 言うto say×53
- 渡辺Marina×52
- 君you×52
- 課長section manager×50
- 公園(public) park×31
- 光男Akio×30
- 僕I×25
- 胃癌stomach cancer×23
- 私I×23
- 作るto make×22
- お父さんfather×22
- 思うto think×19
- 助役assistant official×14
- 土木engineering works×11
- 一枝Ichie×8
- 大野Ouno×6
- 公園課parks section (e.g. of a city administration)×6
- 市民課residential affairs division (of a city administration)×6
- 坂井Oota×5
- 下水drainage×5