Kaoruko and Kazumasa Harima are a separated couple with two children. They plan to divorce once their daughter, Mizuho, enters elementary school. One day, they receive devastating news of their daughter falling into a coma after a near-drowning accident at a pool. The doctors declare her brain dead with no prospect of recovery and the couple must decide if they should donate her organs to others in need or to wait until her heart stops beating.
Japanese study overview
Ningyo no Nemuru Ie is a Japanese movie of 16,555 characters, with 1,582 unique words and 735 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,582 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.
- 瑞穂fresh, young ears of rice×109
- 薫子Isao×91
- 生人Ikuto×45
- 和昌Kazuaki×42
- 言うto say×42
- 星野Hoshino×42
- 思うto think×32
- 私I×28
- 音sound×27
- 刺激stimulus×26
- 脳死brain death×25
- 若葉new leaves×24
- 美晴Bisei×24
- 千鶴子Chikako×17
- 真緒Sao×10
- 進藤Shintō×9
- 磁気magnetism×8
- 臓器移植organ transplant×6
- 脳死判定declaration of brain death×5
- 横隔膜diaphragm×5