Mikio and his older brother Saneo, who is mentally handicapped, live together and have just buried their father. One day, Mikio hires a hooker named Marin for his brother. Marin is an underground singer who goes by the name Fala. A video producer who is filming Fala's documentary finds out about her double life, and proposes to film her and Saneo's sex life. Dreaming about leaving Tokyo with Saneo with a huge sum of money from the film, Mikio and Marin agree to the offer.
Japanese study overview
Lost Paradise in Tokyo is a Japanese movie of 10,169 characters, with 1,060 unique words and 503 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,060 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.
- 兄ちゃん(one's) older brother×44
- 実生seedling×41
- 俺I×31
- 私I×26
- 幹生Mikio×24
- 思うto think×20
- 言うto say×20
- 待つto wait×16
- お前you×15
- 自分myself×14
- 聞くto hear×13
- 今now×11
- 駒田Komata×9
- 黒崎Kurosaki×8
- 西村Torori×5
- 北千住Kitasenju×4
- 好きliking×10
- 痛いpainful×10
- 踊るto dance (orig. a hopping dance)×10
- 子猫kitten×8