
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.
Haha to Kuraseba is a Japanese movie of 18,843 characters, with 1,929 unique words and 874 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,929 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.