Teenager Kazuki Miyaichi has always felt unloved by her mother due the circumstances surrounding her birth. Because she harbors anxiety and perceives herself as being worthless to others, she engages in acts of juvenile delinquency. One day, a transfer student from Yokohama named Eri introduces her to Hiroshi Haruyama, a reckless youth who’s a member of the “Nights” motorcycle gang. Kazuki finds herself increasingly drawn to Hiroshi over time, but he soon becomes leader of the Nights and gets caught up in a conflict with a rival gang.
Japanese study overview
Hot Road is a Japanese movie of 9,199 characters, with 970 unique words and 407 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.1 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 970 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.
- 和希Kazuki×58
- 春山mountain in early spring×34
- 言うto say×30
- 俺I×27
- 私I×23
- お前you×22
- 待つto wait×20
- 思うto think×18
- 宏子Atsuko×13
- 人person×12
- 今now×11
- 聞くto hear×11
- 宮市Kyūichi×10
- 春山Shunzan×10
- 漠vague×4
- 統Osamu×4
- 玉見Tamami×3
- 会うto meet×10
- 先輩senior (at school, work, etc.)×10
- 子child×10