
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a coworker and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.
Higanbana is a Japanese movie of 20,621 characters, with 1,766 unique words and 731 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,766 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.