Midnight Diner

Name: Midnight Diner
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Rating: 8.2

★ 8.2 (69 votes)

2009📺 3 Seasons🎞 30 Episodes⏱ 30m / epTV Series

Drama Comedy

Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight, and its standard menu consists of just a single choice. However, the customers still come for the amusing chatter and the proprietor's willingness to cook any dish that they request. This drama depicts the lives of the restaurant's patrons, including a yakuza, an unsuccessful actor, a group of office ladies, a newspaper delivery boy, and a stripper.

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First Aired

2009-10-09

Status

Ended

Network

TBS

Seasons

Season 1

10 eps

Season 2

10 eps

Season 3

10 eps

Season 1 Episodes

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E1. Fried eggs and red wieners

The stern-faced master of this diner only wields his knife from midnight to 7 am. The yakuza Ryu has been a regular since he tasted the “red wieners”.

★ 7.4

E2. Cat Food

Struggling singer Miyuki orders her favorite “nekomamma”. Master recalls another regular who is a lyricist. He later writes her a song as a gift.

★ 7.0

E3. Ochazuke

Miki, Rumi and Kana meet at the diner to eat “ochazuke” (hot tea over rice) and gab about men. Master secretly calls them the “ochazuke sisters.”

★ 7.5

E4. Potato Salad

Master starts each night by making potato and macaroni salad. A recent regular and charismatic porn star has become a fan of his potato salad.

★ 7.0

E5. Butter Rice

Komichi brings food critic Toyama to the diner, who kills the mood. Goro comes for his usual butter rice which turns Toyama into a weekly patron.

★ 7.0

E6. Katsudon

Boxer Kacchan always eats katsudon (pork cutlet over rice) after a win. He falls in love with another regular Akemi. A big match suddenly comes up.

★ 7.0

Cast

Kaoru Kobayashi

Master

Midnight Diner

Seasons

Season 1 Episodes

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