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MIDNIGHT DINER

SHINYA SHOKUDO

By Joji MATSUOKA

EMPHASIS VIDEO ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED - as DISTR Airline, World

Drama - Completed 2014

First an award-winning comic with more than 2.3 million copies in print!
Then a TV drama, and now a motion picture!
A year in the life of a midnight diner, its owner, and its gallery of regulars

Festivals
& Awards

Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2014

Hawaii International Film Festival 2015

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 119 mn
- Director(s)
- Joji MATSUOKA
- Cast
- Kaoru KOBAYASHI, Joe ODAGIRI
- Synopsis
- The Master’s cooking and the friendly low-key atmosphere of his establishment fill the Midnight Diner night after night. One evening a burial urn left there brings a frown, but to his customers this is something new and it becomes the seed of entertaining speculation. An old customer, Tamako, comes in one night for the first time in a while. The mistress of a wealthy man who has died, she is between patrons, and strikes up a conversation with a young man. Michiru, a girl from the provinces without any money, walks out without paying her bill, then returns and begs the Master for a job. Living upstairs, she becomes part of the life of the diner; all the while her past is coming in search of her. Kenzo, a victim of the Fukushima tsunami disaster, comes to Tokyo and stirs things up in pursuit of Akemi, a diner regular. But through all of these small dramas, the question remains about what will become of the burial urn.

MIDNIGHT DINER

SHINYA SHOKUDO

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