Midnight Diner - Season 1

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.

10 Episodes

Fried eggs and red wieners

Season 1 - Episode 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 “red...

Cat Food

Season 1 - Episode 2

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

Ochazuke

Season 1 - Episode 3

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 sist...

Potato Salad

Season 1 - Episode 4

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

Butter Rice

Season 1 - Episode 5

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 pa...

Katsudon

Season 1 - Episode 6

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

Egg Sandwich

Season 1 - Episode 7

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

Sauced Yakisoba

Season 1 - Episode 8

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 fr...

Grilled Aji (Horse mackerel)

Season 1 - Episode 9

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.

Ramen

Season 1 - Episode 10

Gen, who usually comes with his “big bro” Ryu, is alone tonight when he orders ramen. He then stabs the leader of an opposing gang and disap...