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 The film featured at the Toronto Japanese Film Festival in 2021 and the Australian Japanese Film Festival in 2020.
The movie starts in 1800, showing the friendship of two young girls, Mio and Noe.
[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.