Hamaguchi wrote and directed this film as a graduation project for the students at ENBU Seminar (film and theater school in Tokyo) when he taught there. It is a three-part film: The first part is a documentary-style production of a play; Then the actual full stage production of the play; and the epilogue. Poetry and written words play the central role in the movie.
Japanese study overview
Shinmitsusa is a Japanese movie of 39,835 characters, with 2,463 unique words and 881 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,463 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.
- 思うto think×170
- 私I×135
- 俺I×120
- 言うto say×117
- 人person×107
- お前you×78
- 自分myself×69
- 知るto know×56
- 今now×52
- 言葉language×51
- 好きliking×49
- 違うto differ (from)×48
- 佳代Kayo×16
- 衛Uei×13
- 佳代子Kayoko×11
- 真之介Shinnosuke×11
- Ａ型type A (blood, influenza, hepatitis, etc.)×9
- 憲法constitution×8
- 手相lines of the palm (in palm reading)×7
- 各停train that stops at every station×6