Professional boxer Sota Kusunoki has gained popularity for his fighting style, where he goes headlong into his opponents. However, years of fighting have taken their toll on his body, and he is forced to retire by a doctor's stoppage. He takes the opportunity of his retirement to marry his girlfriend, Sachiko, and start a new life, but he is completely useless in society and is made acutely aware of the harsh reality of his situation. One day, a mysterious man who claims to be a fan of Sota's receives an offer to fight in an underground martial arts tournament, where he will fight for a large sum of money and where his desires are thriving... The prospect of fighting once again revives his almost forgotten excitement, and his adrenaline surges as if to fill the emptiness in him. Will the madness and honesty of a man obsessed with fighting have a happy ending or a bad one?
Japanese study overview
Ikitete Yokatta is a Japanese movie of 11,305 characters, with 1,015 unique words and 425 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 1.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,015 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.
- 創太Souta×65
- 世界the world×56
- 俺I×55
- 創Sou×49
- 試合match×31
- 言うto say×23
- お前you×23
- 私I×21
- 生きるto live×21
- 幸子Kazuko×20
- 思うto think×15
- 健Ken×15
- 楠木Kusuki×10
- 高田Kōda×7
- 頑張るto persevere×15
- 何でwhy?×14
- 待つto wait×13
- お願いしますplease×13
- 痛いpainful×13
- 死ぬto die×12