Botchan (Kazunari Ninomiya) has sense of strong justice and does not lie. He is offered a teaching job at a middle in a small village far away from his hometown of Tokyo. Botchan accepts the position and begins to work as a math teacher. The assistant principle there wields absolute power. Botchan has a hard time dealing with his fellow teachers and the students.
Japanese study overview
Bocchan is a Japanese movie of 14,760 characters, with 1,520 unique words and 684 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,520 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.
- 先生teacher×50
- 教頭deputy head teacher×40
- 生徒pupil×38
- 教師teacher×37
- 俺I×35
- 古賀Koga×27
- 言うto say×25
- 君you×24
- 思うto think×23
- 坊っちゃん(another's) son×22
- 清Isami×20
- 月給monthly salary×15
- わが校our school×11
- 延岡Nobuoka×9
- 昇給salary raise×8
- 転任change of post×7
- 堀田Hotta×6
- 氷水ice water×6
- 帝大imperial university×5
- 芸者geisha×5