Recently retired from a company after some 40 years of service, Sunada Tomoaki, father of filmmaker Sunada Mami, is diagnosed with terminal cancer and only has a few months left to live. True to his pragmatic core, Sunada sets out to accomplish a list of tasks before his final departure: playing with his grandchildren, planning his own funeral, saying “I love you” to his wife, among others. In a voice over, using words taken from her father’s diary, filmmaker Sunada speaks tenderly in first person as the elder Sunada.
Japanese study overview
Ending Note is a Japanese movie of 12,623 characters, with 1,492 unique words and 672 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,492 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×50
- 今now×20
- 言うto say×20
- 思うto think×15
- 中inside×11
- 前in front (of)×11
- 家族family×11
- 最後end×10
- 会社company×10
- 孫grandchild×10
- 惠Ezaki×10
- 茉Asuka×10
- 真椰Maya×7
- 近親者near relative×6
- 淳子Akiko×6
- 波奈Nana×6
- 砂田Isagoda×3
- 右折turning to the right×3
- 抗ガン剤anticancer drug×3
- 腎臓kidney×3