''Mio's Cookbook'' ( ja, みをつくし料理帖) is a 2020 period romance movie from Japan. Directed by
Haruki Kadokawa, it was adapted from
Kaoru Takada's novel ''Cookbook of Devotion, Mio’s Cookbook''
The film featured at the Toronto Japanese Film Festival in 2021 and the Australian Japanese Film Festvial in 2020.
Plot
The movie starts in 1800, showing the friendship of two young girls, Mio and Noe. A flood destroys Osaka where they live and their lives are both destroyed when they lose their families.
The move then moves forward to 1820, but Mio is working in Edo, the Japanese capital. Mio loves cooking and initially fails at the restaurant she works at because she is cooking Osako style. However, as she innovates, her restaurant starts to take off. After her restaurant is burnt down by rivals, she re-builds and a noble protects her from further harm.
it is then that she is visited by a man representing a famed courtesan, who comes to her for her Osaka styles cooking.
Cast
*Honoka Matsumoto as Mio
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Nao as Noe
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Mayumi Wakamura
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Atsuko Asano
is a Japanese actress.
, sponichi.co.jp; accessed September 3, 2015. Upon marrying Tsutomu Uozumi, a reputed ...
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Yōsuke Kubozuka
is a Japanese actor and musician.
Career
Yosuke Kubozuka has been a model for many magazines and TV commercials before starting out his acting career where he debuted in a 1995 TV crime drama ''Kindaichi Case Files''. In 1998, he starred in the ...
as Komatsubara
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Yuta Koseki as Gensai Nagata
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Takashi Fujii
, born March 10, 1972 in Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese comedian and singer who belongs to the Japanese entertainment conglomerate Yoshimoto Kogyo and is the popular host of '' Matthew's Best Hit TV'' (as the character , and various ot ...
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Hironobu Nomura
is a Japanese actor. He has appeared in more than 40 films since 1984.
Selected filmography Film
TV
Awards
References
External links
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1965 births
Living people
Japanese male film actors
Male actors from Tokyo
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Misa Etō
is a Japanese gravure idol, singer, actress, ''tarento'' and former member of the idol groups Nogizaka46 and Chimo. On February 14, 2019, Etō announced that she would be graduating from Nogizaka46, that her graduation concert would be held at ...
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Noriko Watanabe
is a Japanese actress and singer. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for ''His Motorbike, Her Island''.
Filmography
See also
*Hiroko Yakushimaru
*Tomoyo Harada
is a Japanese actress, singer, an ...
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Jun Murakami
is a Japanese actor. He is not to be confused with Japanese stunt actor Jun Murakami.
Career
Murakami starred in Sho Miyake's ''Playback'' (2012). He co-starred in Sion Sono's '' The Land of Hope'' (2012) with Megumi Kagurazaka.
He has also a ...
as Ukichi
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Toshiyuki Nagashima
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Kenichi Matsuyama
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Takashi Sorimachi
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Takaaki Enoki
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Takeshi Kaga
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Hiroko Yakushimaru
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Kōji Ishizaka (special appearance)
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Nakamura Shidō II
References
External links
*{{IMDb title, 12299728
2020 films
Japanese historical romance films