Season 1
Season 1

Season 1

Midnight Diner

10 episodes09/10/2009★ 7.2

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.

Episodes

Fried eggs and red wieners
S1 · E1 · 09/10/2009 · 25 min

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 · 5 votes
Cat Food
S1 · E2 · 16/10/2009 · 25 min

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 · 4 votes
Ochazuke
S1 · E3 · 23/10/2009 · 25 min

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 · 4 votes
Potato Salad
S1 · E4 · 30/10/2009 · 25 min

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 · 3 votes
Butter Rice
S1 · E5 · 06/11/2009 · 25 min

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 · 3 votes
Katsudon
S1 · E6 · 13/11/2009 · 25 min

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 · 3 votes
Egg Sandwich
S1 · E7 · 20/11/2009 · 26 min

Egg Sandwich

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

★ 7.0 · 3 votes
Sauced Yakisoba
S1 · E8 · 27/11/2009 · 25 min

Sauced Yakisoba

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.

★ 7.0 · 3 votes
Grilled Aji (Horse mackerel)
S1 · E9 · 04/12/2009 · 23 min

Grilled Aji (Horse mackerel)

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.

★ 7.5 · 4 votes
Ramen
S1 · E10 · 11/12/2009 · 26 min

Ramen

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 disappears.

★ 7.8 · 4 votes

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