Sekai no Okiku

Movie·せかいのおきく·Okiku and the World

2023/04/28

Speech time

40min

Word count3,568

Unique words

1,100

Unique kanji

484

Speech speed

232

Difficulty Hard

Rating

76 %

Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets into fertiliser sold to local farmers. Enter Okiku, the only daughter of a fallen samurai, and amongst the overflowing piles of excrement, a well-nourished love story unfolds.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Japanese study overview

Sekai no Okiku is a Japanese movie of 8,677 characters, with 1,100 unique words and 484 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,100 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.