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Midnight Diner

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A scarred man operates a midnight diner in the backstreets of Shinjuku. No one knows his name or his story, but his customers each bring him theirs.
Starring:Kaoru Kobayashi, Toshiki Ayata, Mansaku Fuwa
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Episodes

Midnight Diner

  1. Watch Episode 1. Episode 1 of Season 1.

    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 โ€œred wienersโ€.

  2. Watch Episode 2. Episode 2 of Season 1.

    Struggling singer Miyuki orders her favorite โ€œnekomammaโ€. Master recalls another regular who is a lyricist. He later writes her a song as a gift.

  3. Watch Episode 3. Episode 3 of Season 1.

    Miki, Rumi and Kana meet at the diner to eat โ€œochazukeโ€ (hot tea over rice) and gab about men. Master secretly calls them the โ€œochazuke sisters.โ€

  4. Watch Episode 4. Episode 4 of Season 1.

    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.

  5. Watch Episode 5. Episode 5 of Season 1.

    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.

  6. Watch Episode 6. Episode 6 of Season 1.

    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. Watch Episode 7. Episode 7 of Season 1.

    Hopeful star Risa meets struggling student and newspaper delivery boy Nakajima at the diner. They share an egg sandwich together. Could this be love?

  8. Watch Episode 8. Episode 8 of Season 1.

    Ex-idol Rinko visits the diner. Her former fan club members get excited when they hear she ate a plate of pan-fried noodles topped with a fried egg.

  9. Watch Episode 9. Episode 9 of Season 1.

    Yachiyo, an older lady, visits the diner two days in a row. She becomes friends with Marilyn the stripper and they go out clubbing together.

  10. Watch Episode 10. Episode 10 of Season 1.

    Gen, who usually comes with his โ€œbig broโ€ Ryu, is alone tonight when he orders ramen. He then stabs the leader of an opposing gang and disappears.

  1. Watch Episode 11. Episode 1 of Season 2.

    Yakuza and diner regular Ryuโ€™s favorite meal is Masterโ€™s โ€œred wieners.โ€ One day, his high school baseball teammate-turned-detective Noguchi appears.

  2. Watch Episode 12. Episode 2 of Season 2.

    Saya always orders fried chicken and then dozes off at the diner. She financially supports her struggling comedian boyfriend, but he is cold to her.

  3. Watch Episode 13. Episode 3 of Season 2.

    Oren, drunk again tonight, eats sake-steamed clams at the diner. Her worried son carries her home. He is unable to take away her joys of drinking.

  4. Watch Episode 14. Episode 4 of Season 2.

    Bento shop employee Shoji has a crush on Ikumi, who loves Masterโ€™s aspic. He is shocked when patron Komichi tells him Ikumi works in the sex trade.

  5. Watch Episode 15. Episode 5 of Season 2.

    Filmmakers Genki and Yuki bring canned pineapples to Master who makes them sweet and sour pork. They meet Kikuno and ask her to star in their film.

  6. Watch Episode 16. Episode 6 of Season 2.

    After novelist Suzuki leaves, hostess Hana and her customer enter the diner. Hana sheds tears as she eats her creamed stew, remembering her mother.

  7. Watch Episode 17. Episode 7 of Season 2.

    Regular customer Tsukiko is a TV screenwriter. She comes again alone, revealing how she recently shared Masterโ€™s pickled cabbage with a cab driver.

  8. Watch Episode 18. Episode 8 of Season 2.

    Hitomi often supported young men only to be cast aside. She falls in love with older man Hashimoto. The two eat cold noodles at the diner on weekends.

  9. Watch Episode 19. Episode 9 of Season 2.

    Patron Kanemoto visits the diner with beautiful Chiaki. Seeing Masterโ€™s meat and potato dish, she recalls how her family was too poor to buy beef.

  10. Watch Episode 20. Episode 10 of Season 2.

    Gyoza is the one item Master orders from Murata instead of making himself. Murataโ€™s wife Momoko has an intimate past with diner regular Katagiri.

  1. Watch Episode 21. Episode 1 of Season 3.

    Widowed singer Misao Kashima makes a rare visit to eat minced meat cutlets. Misao has been unable to perform on stage ever since she lost her husband.

  2. Watch Episode 22. Episode 2 of Season 3.

    Comic editor Uno brings up-and-coming award-winning artist Hashimoto to eat Masterโ€™s pork-wrapped tomatoes. He lives with a woman and writes comics.

  3. Watch Episode 23. Episode 3 of Season 3.

    Private detectives Kei and Mamoru are drawn to the aroma of Masterโ€™s simmered taro and squid. They spend the night together after leaving the diner.

  4. Watch Episode 24. Episode 4 of Season 3.

    Regular Komichi falls for Kasumi, whose past is unknown. She asks Master to make pickled ginger tempura, a taste familiar to people from Osaka.

  5. Watch Episode 25. Episode 5 of Season 3.

    Miho and Sayuri, in charge of their elementary school reunion, order vermicelli salad. The two recall their old schoolmate who loved the dish.

  6. Watch Episode 26. Episode 6 of Season 3.

    The weather is getting cooler so Master prepares extra stuffed cabbage to the regular customersโ€™ delight. Only the stripper Marilyn feels differently.

  7. Watch Episode 27. Episode 7 of Season 3.

    On Saturday mornings, Yoshio and wife Mizue come to eat clam soup. People refer to them as a close couple. Yoshio is actually Mizueโ€™s third husband.

  8. Watch Episode 28. Episode 8 of Season 3.

    โ€Do you have sautรฉed burdock?โ€ asks stately Chizuru Ichikawa as she enters the diner. She is Genโ€™s former high school teacher, club adviser, and crush.

  9. Watch Episode 29. Episode 9 of Season 3.

    Detectives Noguchi and Izumi always disagree. He wants โ€œliver and chivesโ€, she wants โ€œchives and liverโ€. She tells Master she wants a new partner.

  10. Watch Episode 30. Episode 10 of Season 3.

    Itโ€™s New Yearโ€™s Eve. The regulars all come by to ring in the new year with Masterโ€™s soba noodles. The diner is always a special place for them.

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This show is...
Sentimental, Understated, Intimate
Cast
Kaoru KobayashiToshiki AyataMansaku FuwaYutaka MatsushigeKen MitsuishiShohei UnoTakashi YamanakaKiyofumi KanekoRisa SudouAsako KobayashiNahoko YoshimotoJoe Odagiri

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