Midnight Diner

2009

30 episodes

3 seasons

TV-MA

81user score

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.

Seasons

Season 4

ended

There won't be a season 4, the show has ended.

Season 3

10 episodes

Oct 20, 2014

A detective, a manga editor, a failed cartoonist and a single mother are among the customers who come to the midnight diner for food and company.

Season 2

10 episodes

Oct 13, 2011

The midnight diner's master serves up food and sympathy to more motley customers, ranging from yakuza to pachinko parlor workers to strippers.

Season 1

10 episodes

Oct 9, 2009

Each night a midnight diner serves up just four dishes, but customers aren't really there for the food: They've come for advice and a sympathetic ear.

Casting

Kaoru Kobayashi

Master

Yutaka Matsushige

Ryu

Toshiki Ayata

Kosuzu

Mansaku Fuwa

Chu-san

Shohei Uno

Komichi

Networks

Content rating

TV-MA

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