Shigeo Tokioka (Tetsu Watanabe), a lonely man who has lost his wife, sees a three-line ad for a club in the newspaper that reads, "Tea drinking friends wanted". Mana Sasaki (Rei Okamoto) along with a group of youngsters runs the club, which is actually a prostitution business specializing in arranging appointments for call girls who are over sixty-five years old. A socially-conscious ensemble drama inspired by the news of an actual 2013 prostitution club bust involving the elderly. Directed and written by Sotoyama Bunji, who made his feature film debut with Sansan.
Japanese study overview
Chanomi Tomodachi is a Japanese movie of 13,013 characters, with 1,352 unique words and 637 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,352 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×26
- 松子Shouko×21
- 人person×19
- 言うto say×19
- 思うto think×16
- 違うto differ (from)×15
- 待つto wait×15
- 俺I×13
- 何でwhy?×12
- お前you×11
- 今度this time×11
- お願いしますplease×10
- 玉露high-quality green tea×7
- 若葉new leaves×7
- 道子Michiko×5
- 葛西Kasai×4
- 茶飲友達tea-drinking companion×3
- 三行広告three-line classified advertisement×3
- 谷口Tanikuchi×3
- 鞠子Kikuko×3