
In Shimizu’s sequel to his 1948 masterpiece, a journalist arrives in the secluded foothills of Izu to find a hidden commune to ask, “What happened to the children of the Beehive?” Three years have passed and her question situates itself not only in the realm of Shimizu’s craft, but that of reality: What became of the war orphans Shimizu raised?
Sono Ato no Hachi no Su no Kodomotachi is a Japanese movie of 12,381 characters, with 1,212 unique words and 540 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,212 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.