Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. The entire village is abandoned after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, but Jiro returns there to live. Before long, members of his family come and join him.
Japanese study overview
Ieji is a Japanese movie of 9,133 characters, with 1,055 unique words and 543 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 2.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,055 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.
- 思うto think×23
- 言うto say×18
- 沢田Sahada×16
- 分part×15
- お前you×14
- 帰るto return×13
- 菜穂Nao×13
- 私I×12
- 出るto leave×12
- 総whole×11
- 親父one's father×11
- 俺I×10
- 次郎Keijirō×10
- 伸明Shinmei×9
- 総一Osakazu×5
- 千蔵Senzou×5
- 百姓farmer×5
- かっ飛ばすto knock out (e.g. a homer)×4
- 種もみseed rice×3
- 町town×10