ruin; wreck; mere skeleton; framework
Japanese pepper (species of Sichuan pepper, Zanthoxylum piperitum); Japanese prickly ash
grabbing hold; eagle grip; tight hold
odd couple; incongruous couple
hoping against hope; desperately hoping; as a last hope
Oklahoma mixer (folk dance); Turkey in the Straw
baa (sound made by sheep); meh
getting what one wants by complaining or grumbling; profiting by holding out or taking a hard line; getting more by raising a ruckus
Japanese woman who readily sleeps with foreign men
free love; sexual freedom; sexual emancipation
kabosu (type of citrus fruit) (Citrus sphaerocarpa)
to trace back to (the origins of something)
single-theater; independent (cinema); art-house (film)
seventeen; seventeen (years old)
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)