One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pair of old photographs among his belongings to go off of, Teiko tries to figure out what has happened to him.
Japanese study overview
Zero no shouten is a Japanese movie of 21,748 characters, with 1,919 unique words and 778 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,919 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.
- 鵜原Uhara×80
- 奥さんwife×65
- 憲一Ken'ichi×60
- 金沢Kanazawa (city in Ishikawa)×42
- 久子Kuko×41
- 言うto say×38
- 自殺suicide×36
- 東京Tokyo×35
- 田沼Tanuma×31
- 帰るto return×29
- 出るto leave×25
- 人person×25
- 曽根Sone×25
- 禎子Sadako×21
- 宗太郎Shuutarō×19
- 益三郎Ekisaburō×18
- １年半one year and a half×8
- 能登Noto (former province located in the north of present-day Ishikawa Prefecture)×8
- 北陸Hokuriku region (of Honshu; incl. Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui prefectures)×5
- 山下foot of a mountain×5