Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as a housemaid and nanny for the Hirai family in a little house in Tokyo with a red gabled roof.
Japanese study overview
Chiisai Ouchi is a Japanese movie of 23,229 characters, with 2,219 unique words and 916 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.1 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,219 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.
- 私I×78
- 板倉Itakura×57
- 言うto say×55
- 奥さまwife×42
- 思うto think×32
- 僕I×32
- 人person×26
- 書くto write×25
- 戦争war×24
- 時子Tokiko×22
- 君you×20
- 奥さんwife×19
- 恭一Kyōichi×12
- 平井Hirai×12
- 健史Kenshi×8
- 支那China×8
- 正治Shouji×7
- 南京Nanjing (China)×6
- 山形Yamagata (city, prefecture)×5
- 自叙伝autobiography×4