Sugimoto Taeko moves in with her daughter Natsuki and granddaughter Mizuki. They begin a lively life together. In the midst of it all, Taeko sees her former self in Mizuki. The bitter taste of the first pineapple she ever ate, the disastrous score on a math test, the awakening of her acting spirit at a school performance. As Taeko recalls her elementary school days, she unleashes a dream that she had long given up on and sealed away. 'I'm going to be on stage!' Taeko immediately auditions and devotes herself to rehearsing for a Shakespeare play. But just then, the theatre where she was going to perform goes bankrupt, and she is forced to give up on her dream again!
Japanese study overview
Omoide Poroporo is a Japanese movie of 13,999 characters, with 1,324 unique words and 586 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,324 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.
- タエ子Taeko×45
- 言うto say×43
- 私I×42
- お母さんmother×33
- 思うto think×24
- お父さんfather×21
- 君Mr×21
- 出るto leave×19
- 頑張るto persevere×19
- 帰るto return×13
- 人person×12
- 今日today×12
- 学芸会school arts festival×11
- 岡島Okashima×11
- 鉛筆削りpencil sharpener×10
- 杉本Sukimoto×8
- １羽one (bird or rabbit)×6
- 夏希Natsuki×6
- 澤田Sawata×6
- 吹きblowing (e.g. of the wind)×3