2015/12/12
Speech timeSpeech duration
1h 19minWord count8,308
Unique words · 1,123 once
1,917 Unique kanji · 329 once
875Avg. sentenceAverage sentence length11.2
Speech speed
276 Difficulty Hard
RatingExternal Rating
67 %Nobuko works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son appears in front of her again. Since that time, Koji appears in front of her and they reminiscence about pleasant times. These happy, but bizarre moments seem eternal.
Japanese study overview
Haha to Kuraseba is a Japanese movie of 18,845 characters, with 1,917 unique words and 875 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,917 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 母さんmother×77
- 浩二Kōji×69
- 言うto say×58
- 町子Chōko×57
- 私I×56
- 先生teacher×44
- 人person×39
- 思うto think×33
- 死ぬto die×27
- 泣くto cry×23
- 音sound×20
- あの娘that child×20
- ガラス戸glass door×13
- 伸子Shinko×11
- 原爆atomic bomb×10
- 上海Shanghai (China)×6
- 言いよるto court×6
- 睦子Chikako×6
- 医科大学medical university×5
- 伯父さんuncle×5