39-year-old Yuko is a high-achieving and proud woman whose career ambitions took her from a sleepy part of Amagasaki City, to Tokyo. When she loses her job due to her “high standards” attitude, she loses her drive to do anything and ends up retreating to her family home where she lives as a NEET with her laidback joker of a father, Ryutaro. For years, the two get along until her 70-something old man brings home Saki, his 20-year-old bride-to-be. When the younger woman shacks up with the two, a comedy of manners based, quite understandably, on a scandalised Yuko’s “you’re not my mom!” attitude ensues as the younger woman takes to mothering her but when crises occur, Yuko truly begins to evaluate just what a family can be.
Japanese study overview
Amalock is a Japanese movie of 15,091 characters, with 1,611 unique words and 686 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.1 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,611 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.
- 優子Aiko×69
- 私I×46
- 言うto say×40
- 竜太郎Tatsutarō×25
- 食べるto eat×23
- 家族family×23
- 思うto think×22
- 人person×20
- 尼Buddhist nun×17
- 竜dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon)×17
- 早希Saki×17
- 時time×16
- 愛子Aiko×11
- 近松Chikamatsu×11
- 南雲Nakumo×11
- 鉄蔵Tetsuzou×9
- 赤飯red rice (beans and mochi) for auspicious occasions×4
- 家族団らんhappy family circle×4
- 手ぬぐいtenugui×4
- 運針handling the needle×4