Home-design sales representative Tomohiro lives with his wife and their son. As his job involves houses, it is his motto to take great care of the family who live in the house. However, he has been working so hard that he has forgotten to cherish his own family. When he looks after a client who wants to leave her father-in-law in a nursing home, it reminds him of his grandmother whom he loved so much. Father's death, grandmother's struggle with disease, and home care - those were grueling times, but the memories have become invaluable for Tomohiro. He realizes his family is the most precious thing of all. On a day off, he and his family decide to visit his mother who lives alone in their old hometown.
Japanese study overview
Boku no Obaa-chan is a Japanese movie of 16,193 characters, with 1,396 unique words and 611 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,396 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.
- 二two×269
- 一one×159
- 蘆common reed (Phragmites australis)×154
- 麦wheat×65
- 智Akira×56
- 垢dirt×47
- 木tree×41
- 言word×38
- 頁page×31
- 雄太Yūta×29
- 言うto say×27
- 叉groin×24
- 藻algae×22
- 囗kanji "box" or "country" radical (radical 31)×21
- 卜fortune-telling×15
- 云Innoshou×11
- 洲sandbank×9
- 絵美Emi×8
- 茂田Shigeta×8
- 柔softness×7