Mio's Cookbook

Mio's Cookbook (Japanese: みをつくし料理帖) is a 2020 period romance movie from Japan. Directed by Haruki Kadokawa,^[1] it was adapted from Kaoru Takada's novel Cookbook of Devotion, Mio’s Cookbook

Mio's Cookbook
みをつくし料理帖
Directed by	Haruki Kadokawa
Screenplay by	Itaru Era Kana Matsui Haruki Kadokawa
Based on	Mio Tsukushi Ryōri-chō by Kaoru Takada
Produced by	Shigeji Maeda
Starring	Honoka Matsumoto Nao Mayumi Wakamura Atsuko Asano Yōsuke Kubozuka Yuta Koseki Takashi Fujii Kōji Ishizaka Nakamura Shidō II
Cinematography	Nobuyasu Kita
Music by	Masataka Matsutoya
Production company	Rakueisha
Distributed by	Toei Company
Release date	October 16, 2020 (2020-10-16) (Japan)
Running time	131 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

The film featured at the Toronto Japanese Film Festival in 2021 and the Australian Japanese Film Festival 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 ^[2] 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.^[3] After her restaurant is burnt down by rivals,^[4] she re-builds and a noble protects her from further harm.^[5] 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
• Nao as Noe
• Mayumi Wakamura
• Atsuko Asano
• Yōsuke Kubozuka as Komatsubara
• Yuta Koseki as Gensai Nagata
• Takashi Fujii
• Hironobu Nomura
• Misa Etō
• Noriko Watanabe
• Jun Murakami as Ukichi
• Toshiyuki Nagashima
• Kenichi Matsuyama
• Takashi Sorimachi
• Takaaki Enoki
• Takeshi Kaga
• Hiroko Yakushimaru
• Kōji Ishizaka (special appearance)
• Nakamura Shidō II