The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
Japanese study overview
Tokyo Monogatari is a Japanese movie of 18,903 characters, with 1,580 unique words and 617 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,580 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.
- お母さんmother×65
- お父さんfather×62
- 思うto think×38
- 帰るto return×33
- 東京Tokyo×29
- 云うto say×27
- 方direction×26
- お母さまmother×21
- 京子Atsuko×17
- 明日tomorrow×16
- 今日today×15
- 子供child×15
- 敬三Keizan×13
- 紀子Itoko×13
- 仕様がないthere's no (other) way×11
- 尾道Odō×10
- 熱海Atami×9
- 電報telegram×8
- 煎餅(Japanese) rice cracker×5
- 沼田deep-mud paddy×5