
1940, Kawamoto Akiko lives in Hiroshima with her father and mother, Genkichi and Shizuko, as well as her two younger brothers. Akiko loves playing her favourite piano. As the war situation worsens, she is busy helping out the war efforts. On the morning of August 6, 1945, she disobeys her father and heads into the centre of town for work. In Hiroshima 75 years later, her favourite piano remains, restored and playable following its survival of the atomic bombing
Akiko's Piano: Hibaku Shita Piano ga Kanaderu Oto is a Japanese movie of 8,865 characters, with 1,292 unique words and 719 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,292 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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