Toru Emori leads the cast as Hirate Musashi while a Hiroshi Fujioka competes with him as Okamoto Musashi. They must not only contend with the Yoshioka and Yagyu fencing schools, but have to take on Chiyonosuke Azuma as Sasaki Kojiro, and deal with the women who pursue them for love. Unlike the Yoshikawa Eiji novel which is not historically accurate, this film offers a new view of Japan’s greatest hero! The film is based on the novel by Kosuke Gomi!
Japanese study overview
Futari no Musashi is a Japanese movie of 12,343 characters, with 1,510 unique words and 651 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,510 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.
- 清十郎Seijuurou×74
- 殿Mr.×71
- 武蔵Musashi (former province located in parts of present-day Tokyo, Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures)×59
- 武蔵Takekura×59
- 様Mr×50
- 吉岡Kichioka×43
- お主you (when referring to one's equals or inferiors)×43
- 俺I×42
- 勝負victory or defeat×41
- 平田rice field on flat land×35
- 浅山Asayama×31
- 又三郎Matasaburō×26
- 三徳Santoku×25
- 千珠Senju×20
- 三徳three cardinal virtues (wisdom, benevolence and valour (valor))×16
- 岡本Okahon×13
- 鮒crucian carp (Carassius spp.)×8
- お手前tea-ceremony procedures×8
- 伝七Denshichi×7
- 十五日15th day of the month×6