The story is about the emotional and spiritual exchange between an elderly watchmaker and a cheerful and kind young woman who lost her mother in the tsunami of the Great Tohoku Earthquake. The woman asks the watchmaker to repair a wristwatch, which is a precious memento left her by late mother.
Japanese study overview
Tokeiya no Musume is a Japanese movie of 12,567 characters, with 1,308 unique words and 596 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,308 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×65
- 秋山Akiyama×49
- 言うto say×47
- 時計clock×35
- お母さんmother×33
- 思うto think×28
- 木tree×24
- 人person×17
- 君you×16
- 仕事work×15
- 修理repair×14
- お店store×14
- 知花子Chikako×10
- 宮原Miyanohara×7
- 時計屋watch store×6
- 国木Kuniki×6
- 植木屋gardener×6
- 石巻Ishinomaki×5
- 寄付金donation×4
- 切り倒すto cut down×4