Mio on the Shore

Nov 15, 2019

1h 36m

★ 7.4

Overview

Mio is 20 years old. Having lost her parents early, she and her grandmother run a traditional inn in Nagano. However, her grandmother gets sick. Mio moves to Tokyo and lives with her father’s best friend, Kyosuke. He runs a public bath. She begins to work at the public bath, but it is scheduled to be demolished to make way for redevelopment.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

WIT STUDIO

Tokyo New Cinema

Phantom Film

Mio on the Shore Trailers

Cast

Mio Miyakawa

Honoka Matsumoto

Ginji Ogata

Daichi Watanabe

Makoto Shimamura

Eri Tokunaga

Toshihito Arai

Kaito Yoshimura

Yuu Iseki

Shugo Oshinari

Kyosuke Misawa

Ken Mitsuishi

Kuniko Miyakawa

Fumie Kashiyama

Jasmine

An Ogawa

Sakurako Konishi

Kina Ishida

Matsumoto Kiyo

Mari Yasukawa

Yua Shiraishi

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