2013/02/23
Speech timeSpeech duration
1h 5minWord count7,911
Unique words · 795 once
1,509 Unique kanji · 214 once
593Avg. sentenceAverage sentence length7.1
Speech speed
308 Difficulty Easy
RatingExternal Rating
70 %The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki. Ordinary in every way possible, he lives in a suburb far from the excitement of the big city and commutes to a university in the center of Tokyo.
Genres
Comedy
Drama
Romance
Japanese study overview
Yokomichi Yonosuke is a Japanese movie of 18,583 characters, with 1,509 unique words and 593 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 1.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,509 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.
- 世之介Yonosuke×90
- 俺I×65
- 祥子Akiko×52
- お前you×49
- 言うto say×33
- 私I×33
- 思うto think×28
- 横道byway×26
- 聞くto hear×23
- 今now×17
- 待つto wait×17
- 友達friend×16
- 伊東Itō×11
- 倉持Kuramochi×8
- 小沢Osawa×7
- 千春Chiha×7
- 東京湾Tokyo Bay×5
- 経営学management studies×4
- 早稲田field of early-blooming (or ripening) rice×3
- 蚊帳mosquito net×3