An emotional masterpiece of the love between father and son. A junior high school student Kuwae Ryo lives in a small town, Chatan-cho which is located in the center of Okinawa's main island. He makes a friend with an American boy Kevin whom he met at a Karate school, but Kevin accidentally shoots Ryo's father with a gun. Meanwhile, Ryo discovers a past secret of his father.
Japanese study overview
Nirai No Oka: A Song of Gondola is a Japanese movie of 9,876 characters, with 987 unique words and 422 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 1.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 987 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.
- 良good (quality, condition, etc.)×40
- 空手karate×27
- お前you×25
- 言うto say×25
- 父ちゃんdad×20
- 帰るto return×19
- 凪calm (at sea)×17
- 今now×17
- 兄ちゃん(one's) older brother×16
- 待つto wait×15
- 先輩senior (at school, work, etc.)×15
- 女の人woman×14
- 風子Kanako×11
- 良造Yoshizou×10
- 桑江Kuwae×6
- 河本Kawamoto×4
- 彦boy×3
- 道着uniform worn in martial arts (judo, kendo, etc.)×3
- 中２second year of junior high school×3
- 俺I×13