1952/10/09
Speech timeSpeech duration
56minWord count7,906
Unique words · 1,045 once
1,759 Unique kanji · 281 once
777Avg. sentenceAverage sentence length11.0
Speech 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 17,585 characters, with 1,759 unique words and 777 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,759 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
- 君you×52
- 課長section manager×50
- 渡辺Marina×48
- 公園(public) park×31
- 僕I×25
- 胃癌stomach cancer×23
- 私I×23
- 作るto make×22
- お父さんfather×22
- 光男Akio×21
- 死ぬto die×20
- 助役assistant official×14
- 土木engineering works×11
- 公園課parks section (e.g. of a city administration)×6
- 市民課residential affairs division (of a city administration)×6
- 下水drainage×5
- 市会議員city councillor×5
- 大野Ouno×5
- 胃潰瘍stomach ulcer×4