Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanaka plays the titular Grandma, who, after selling her Hokkaido property, is apparently flush with cash but newly homeless. Her grown children take turns hosting her, making extravagant performances of filial devotion with an eye to potential profit. Making use of a catalog of wacky visual effects, bracketed by gratuitous ham-fisted fight scenes, and costarring pop singer Hideki Saijo, the film is balanced by Tanaka's nuanced performance, which delivers a denunciation of hypocrisy and greed.
Japanese study overview
Ore no Iku Michi is a Japanese movie of 19,072 characters, with 1,640 unique words and 635 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,640 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.
- 私I×56
- 俺I×43
- 言うto say×43
- お前you×33
- 帰るto return×27
- 思うto think×25
- 梅子Umeko×23
- お金money×22
- 耕三Kōsou×18
- 持つto hold (in one's hand)×15
- 成田Narita×14
- 金money×14
- 竹子Takaze×9
- 養老院home for the aged×9
- 老人ホームretirement home×5
- 健二Kenji×4
- 競輪keirin×4
- 良夫Nagao×4
- 法事Buddhist memorial service×3
- 由江Yue×3