Kamura Yoichiro is a distinguished heart surgeon who had discovered the cure to rejuvenate aging failing hearts. However, Kamura is unaware of the side-effect of the cure that he had invented... the heart will rupture when it is over stimulated. Sakuma Kazuhisa is a bureaucrat who believes that the old are a problem to society. He feels that they are good-for-nothings who should be eliminated before they destroy the country. Suspecting Kamura's cure to have a negative side-effect, Sakuma plots to use it to achieve his nefarious objectives. Kuraki Rentaro was once a famous actor. His heart is failing, but he wishes to star in one last film before he dies, and so he opts for the procedure under Kamura.
Japanese study overview
Haretsu is a Japanese drama of 40,582 characters, with 3,328 unique words and 1,166 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,328 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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×167
- 事thing×135
- 私I×115
- 香村Kamura×105
- 俺I×85
- お前you×60
- 倉木Kuraki×54
- 治験clinical trial×53
- 死ぬto die×51
- 思うto think×49
- 佐久間Kōtarō×48
- 研究research×47
- 療法(method of) treatment×38
- 厨kitchen×34
- 蓮太郎Hasutarō×33
- 医療ミスmedical error×26
- 心臓破裂myocardial rupture×21
- 突然死sudden death×19
- 直輝Naoki×18
- 天寿natural span of life×18