1962/11/23
Speech timeSpeech duration
57minWord count5,511
Unique words · 836 once
1,427 Unique kanji · 219 once
600Speech speed
262 Difficulty Hard
RatingExternal Rating
80 %The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional shogi player through his genius shogi skills and lives a fanatically devoted shogi game supported by the love of his family. This is the 3rd adaptation of Hideji Hojo's famous play.
Genres
Drama
Japanese study overview
Oushou is a Japanese movie of 13,055 characters, with 1,427 unique words and 600 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,427 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 南無妙法蓮華経Glory to the Sutra×49
- 将棋shogi×44
- 名人master×40
- 坂田Sakaguchi×31
- お母ちゃんmum×25
- 言うto say×24
- 小春10th month of the lunisolar calendar (traditional first month of winter, approx. November)×23
- お父ちゃんdad×23
- 妙見Myōken×23
- 関根Kankon×23
- 死ぬto die×19
- 指すto point×18
- 玉枝Gyokushi×13
- 将棋指しshogi player×8
- 新報news×8
- 号外newspaper extra×8
- 二五25×7
- 宮田Miyata×6
- 妙法蓮華経Lotus Sutra×6
- 天王寺Tennouji×5