The Movie depicts 10 days after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. At a morgue house in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, the workers treat the dead with dignity as they hand over the bodies to their families. Retired funeral worker (Toshiyuki Nishida), finds himself volunteering at the morgue house.
Japanese study overview
Itai: Ashita e no Tookakan is a Japanese movie of 11,764 characters, with 1,241 unique words and 645 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,241 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.
- 番number (in a series)×40
- 遺体(dead) body×34
- お母さんmother×28
- 家族family×24
- お願いしますplease×22
- 私I×16
- 津波tsunami×14
- 方direction×13
- 相葉Aiba×13
- 思うto think×13
- 火葬場crematory×13
- 人person×12
- 及川Oikawa×7
- 安置所place of enshrinement×7
- 葬儀社undertaker's office×6
- 平賀Hiraka×5
- 住職chief priest (of a Buddhist temple)×5
- 吉原Yoshihara×5
- 検案(external) examination of a body to determine the time and cause of death (carried out by a doctor)×4
- 出棺carrying out a coffin×4