Shintaro, an Assistant Bank Division Chief at the Financial Services Agency, had been working like a dog for 33 years. But just five years before he is due for retirement, his boss framed him for accepting bribes. Shintaro was forced to retire immediately and was parachuted into a public organization, JAMS (Japan Association of Medium and Small Enterprises). Instead of a happy retirement that he had dreamt of, his out-of-the-blue retirement triggers a complete family breakup. To everyone’s surprise, his job is “to do nothing” for an annual salary of ten million yen!
Japanese study overview
Happy Retirement is a Japanese movie of 18,870 characters, with 1,866 unique words and 810 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,866 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×58
- 俺I×39
- 思うto think×32
- 事thing×32
- お金money×31
- 言うto say×28
- 自分myself×23
- 家族family×23
- 今日today×21
- 銀行bank×20
- 大友Ooto×18
- 返すto return (something)×18
- 金融庁Financial Services Agency×17
- 慎Shizuka×15
- 矢島Satō×11
- 清子Kiyoko×11
- 筑波Chikuba×9
- 課長補佐assistant section manager×8
- 天下りretiring high-ranking government officials taking a lucrative job in a private or semi-private corporation×6
- 納税者taxpayer×6