Following the 2009 financial crash, Waseda University graduate Takeshi lost his job in Tokyo and retreated to his family home in Sendai. While he resumed his role as heir to the family construction company with a diligent attitude, his hidebound father resents that his son left and that at the age of 35 Takeshi is still single. However, wider events will force father and son to overcome their differences as the Otsunahiki, a great tug-of-war featuring thousands of participants, will pull them together in a family tradition just as Takeshi meets Jiheyun, a beautiful Korean doctor on an exchange programme... The ties of family bind people tightly as characters struggle with the push of their own ambitious urges and the pull of family commitments but the Otsunahiki ropes things together in a family drama rich with events and the culture of Sendai, that will tug and the heartstrings of viewers whilst providing to the desire to visit the beautiful and storied region.
Japanese study overview
Otsunahiki no Koi is a Japanese movie of 13,558 characters, with 1,500 unique words and 692 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,500 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.
- 引けclose (e.g. of business)×80
- 武志Takeshi×74
- 綱rope×66
- 一番太鼓beating of a drum as a signal to announce the opening (beginning) of an event (theatrical performance, festival, etc.)×47
- 下方lower region×38
- 私I×33
- 上方Kyoto and vicinity (esp. during Edo period)×28
- 隊party×26
- 有馬Ariuma×23
- 大将general×21
- 太鼓drum×20
- 今年this year×20
- 上方upper part×20
- 弦太郎Gentarō×19
- 福元Fukumoto×13
- 川内Kawauchi×12
- 綱引tug of war×12
- 三役three highest ranks (wrestling, unions, etc.)×12
- 吉留Kichiru×10
- 霊山sacred mountain×5