Mono No Aware

2026

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Overview

In Japan's quiet apartments, a Filipino kodokushi cleaner meets an elderly widower who asks him for one final favor before he dies. What begins as a promise becomes a quiet story of grief, family, and accepting life's impermanence.

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8 featured cast members

Starring

Juan Karlos Labajo

Ichi

Perry Dizon

George

Momoko Kobayashi

Mori

Paolo O'Hara

Ken

Kentarou Furuyama

Aika Higashimori

Kaname Nagamori

Tadashi Watanabe

Creative team

Directed by: BC Amparado
Written by: BC Amparado
Produced by: Tin Velasco
Ivy Zharisse Piedad

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