Jarinko Chie is a movie directed by Takahata in 1981. Based on the very popular manga by Etsumi Haruki, it is about ten year old Chie, "the most unfortunate girl in Japan," who manages her family diner while her unemployed yakuza father and her mother are separated. This sounds really depressing, but it's actually a very funny comedy. The story is set in Osaka, which has a totally different culture from Tokyo.
Japanese study overview
Jarinko Chie is a Japanese anime of 19,610 characters, with 1,526 unique words and 584 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,526 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.
- 音sound×68
- 言うto say×58
- お前you×55
- よし江Yoshie×46
- 小鉄Kotetsu×45
- お母(one's) mother×41
- 百合根lily bulb×35
- お父daddy×34
- 殴るto strike×27
- 待つto wait×24
- 知るto know×23
- 今日today×21
- 渉Ayumi×19
- 菊崎Kikusaki×15
- 拳骨(clenched) fist×10
- 山下foot of a mountain×6
- 花井Kei×6
- 洋裁(Western) dressmaking×4
- かみ殺すto suppress (a smile, yawn, etc.)×4
- 授業参観parents' day (day when parents observe their children in school)×3