
An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.


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.
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Honoka Matsumoto
Mio Miyakawa

Daichi Watanabe
Ginji Ogata

Eri Tokunaga
Makoto Shimamura

Kaito Yoshimura
Toshihito Arai

Shugo Oshinari
Yuu Iseki

Ken Mitsuishi
Kyosuke Misawa

Fumie Kashiyama
Kuniko Miyakawa

An Ogawa
Jasmine

Sakurako Konishi

Matsumoto Kiyo
Kina Ishida
Mio on the Shore is a drama film released in 2019 exploring themes of mountain lake, poem, tokyo, japan, public shower, city redevelopment, sentō. Directed by Ryutaro Nakagawa, it stars Honoka Matsumoto, Daichi Watanabe, Eri Tokunaga. 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.
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