2019   Japan Mio on the Shore
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Director:Ryûtarô Nakagawa
Studio:Tokyo New Cinema
Writer:Hikaru Kimura, Ryûtarô Nakagawa, Keitarô Sakon
IMDb Rating:6.1 (92 votes)
Genre:Drama
Duration:96 min
Languages:Japanese
IMDb:10584784
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Ryûtarô Nakagawa  ...  (Director)
Hikaru Kimura, Ryûtarô Nakagawa, Keitarô Sakon  ...  (Writer)
 
Honoka Matsumoto  ...  Mio Miyakawa
Daichi Watanabe  ...  Ginji Ogata
Eri Tokunaga  ...  Mikoto Shimamura
Kaito Yoshimura  ...  Toshihito Arai
Fumie Kashiyama  ...  Kuniko Miyakawa
Ken Mitsuishi  ...  Kyosuke Misawa
Shûgo Oshinari  ...  Yu Iseki
Ryunosuke Azuma  ...  
Juri Fukushima  ...  
Mitsutaka Horikoshi  ...  
Yuriko Kawasaki  ...  
Moka Kobayashi  ...  
Sakurako Konishi  ...  
Aiko Masuda  ...  
Erina Masuda  ...  
Hisaki Kato  ...  Composer
Rei Hirano  ...  Cinematographer
Kohei Ito  ...  Editor
Keitarô Sakon  ...  Editor
Kiyo Matsumoto  ...  
Kazue Mitani  ...  
Nagomu Miyamoto  ...  
Kazuaki Nagaya  ...  
Anne Ogawa  ...  
Yua Shiraishi  ...  
Mitsuru Yamazaki  ...  
Mari Yasukawa  ...  
Derbew Yenet  ...  
Comments: Love the look and feel of this, and the lackadaisical pace. But the characters seem all just put there to take up space until we get to the redevelopment drama ending, which is very touching. I applaud the public service announcement

I need to watch more Ryûtarô Nakagawa. Seems like he knows what he's doing with the visuals, but the characters in this are a little too cliched and tilt to the unpleasant so we can reach the feels for Mio. I sort of get that we can retroactively apply common man hero status on everybody, but it's a yawny MO. The dinner scene is filled with creepy goodness


Summary: 20-year-old Mio has lost her parents early and runs a traditional Japanese inn in Nagano with her grandmother. As her grandmother gets sick and hospitalized, Mio is forced to leave the inn and reluctantly comes to Tokyo to live with her father's old friend Kyosuke. Helping him at the bathhouse he runs, she begins to find her way in everyday life. One day, however, she learns the bathhouse is on the verge of demolition for the redevelopment in the district.


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