27-year-old Yazaki Junpei has come back to his hometown of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture for the first time in 10 years after working in Tokyo. As the grandson of the bad guy “Red Shirt” who was punished by Bocchan in Natsume Soseki’s novel Bocchan, he has hated this town which continued to be regarded with disdain, since childhood. An old man picks a quarrel with Junpei inside a streetcar as he heads to his parents’ home in Dogo. Could this man be the Bocchan who once acted violently with free abandon in Matsuyama!?
Japanese study overview
'Kutabare' Bocchan is a Japanese movie of 7,239 characters, with 937 unique words and 493 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 3.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 937 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.
- 坊っちゃん(another's) son×50
- 事thing×21
- 俺I×21
- 街town×18
- 赤red×16
- 純平Junpei×16
- 思うto think×16
- 言うto say×12
- 話talk×9
- 化けるto take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.)×9
- 屋敷residence×9
- 何でwhy?×8
- 松山Matsuyama (city in Ehime)×7
- 黒岩Kuroiwa×7
- 道後温泉Dōgoonsen×6
- 下手投げunderhand throw×4
- 矢崎Yagasaki×4
- 化けて出るto become a wandering ghost×4
- 高砂double-lined fusilier (Pterocaesio digramma)×3
- 特撮special effects×3