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Midnight Diner 2 (2016)
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Midnight Diner 2 (2016)
Original name: 続・深夜食堂
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When people finish their day and hurry home, his day starts. His diner is open from midnight to seven in the morning. Pork, miso soup combo, beer, sake and shochu is all that he has on his menu. Nevertheless, he makes whatever his customers request as long as he has the ingredients for it.
Style: psychological, sincere, melancholic, anthology
Plot: restaurant, food, small business, unrequited love, multiple storylines, storytelling, haunted by the past, homelessness, business manager, japanese police, cookery, humanity, diner, chef, life lesson, funeral, night, dinner, cooking, japanese food, drink, cook
Place: tokyo
Keyword: life lessons

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, sincere and touching films with plots about food, restaurant, cooking, chef, drink, slice of life and cooking and food mostly in Drama, Comedy and History genres. Some movies like Midnight Diner 2: Little Forest: Summer/Autumn (2014), Little Forest: Winter/Spring (2015), Delicious (2021), Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories (2016), Final Recipe (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Midnight Diner (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: contemplative, melancholic, touching, sincere, psychological
Plot: restaurant, diner, unrequited love, food, chef, cooking, beer, storytelling, employee, customer, boss, employer ...
Place: tokyo
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Midnight Diner (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Every night, Master (Kaoru Kobayashi) is busy with customers at the restaurant he runs. He has a worried face, looking at the funerary urn which someone left at his restaurant. His customers also talk about the funerary urn.
Style: independent film
Plot: food, chef, restaurant, diner, unrequited love, cookery, backpacking, humanity, inspiration, cooking, wench, life lesson ...
Place: tokyo
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Little Forest: Summer/Autumn (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Abandoned by her mother, young Ichiko leaves her life in the city to live off the land in Komori, a small town nestled among the mountains in rural Japan. Despite the void left by her mother’s disappearance, Ichiko comes to enjoy her independence ...
Style: psychological, visually appealing, thought provoking, contemplative, melancholic ...
Plot: food, japanese girl, farmer, solitude, mother issues, nature, village life, slice of life, countryside, provincial life, japanese culture, agriculture ...
Place: japan
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Little Forest: Winter/Spring (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ichiko (Ai Hashimoto) lived in a big city, but goes back to her small hometown Komori, located on a mountain in the Tohoku region. She is self-sufficient. Ichiko gains energy living among nature and eating foods she makes from seasonal ingredients.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, sincere, captivating, epic ...
Plot: food, japanese girl, japanese culture, nature, solitude, abandoned by mother, isolation, society, backpacking, cookery, agriculture, inspiration ...
Place: japan
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Delicious (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story: France, 1789 - just before the Revolution. When talented chef Manceron is dismissed from his prestigious position by the Duke of Chamfort, he loses the taste for cooking. But when he meets the mysterious Louise, together they decide to create the ...
Style: scenic, dramatic
Audience: kids
Plot: restaurant, food, poison, gastronomy, chef, murder disguised as suicide, plot twist, revenge, rain, rainstorm, cooking, horse ...
Time: 18th century
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Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: In an otherwise mundane diner open from midnight to 7 a.m., there is no menu – but the chef cooks anything his customers want. Each episode is about different a different customer, as they find simple yet profound connections with one another ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, sitcom, anthology
Plot: food, restaurant, chef, diner, social issues, multiple storylines, restaurant owner, male female relationship, relationships, social problems, couple relations, unrequited love ...
Place: japan, tokyo
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Final Recipe (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, Thailand, Singapore
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Hao's Singaporean restaurant is in danger of going out of business. Hao's grandson, Mark, secretly travels to Shanghai to attend a cooking competition despite his grandfather's wishes for him to become an engineer. Mark takes the ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: food, chef, restaurant, cooking competition, competitor, restaurateur, cooking and food, restaurant owner, ambition, aspiration, rivalry, cookery ...
Place: shanghai
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Call Me Chihiro (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story: An unapologetic former sex worker starts working at a bento stand in a small seaside town, bringing comfort to the lonely souls who come her way.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological, social, sexy
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Food Luck (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Yoshito grew up with his mother Yasue after his father passed away. His mother ran a yakiniku (grilled meat) restaurant that his father had left behind. Yoshito enjoyed eating his mother's cooking and their restaurant was loved by many people. ...
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: restaurant, food, mother son relationship, slice of life, restaurant owner, family problems, social problems, journalist, gourmet, family relations, workplace, food critic ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Sweet Bean (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayaki pastries filled with sweet red bean paste (“an”). When an old lady, Tokue, offers to help in the kitchen he reluctantly accepts. She will soon prove to have magic in her hands…
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What Did You Eat Yesterday? (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Kakei Shiro is a 45 year old lawyer who works at a small law firm. He is a good cook and a meticulous and thrifty person who keeps the monthly food budget to 25,000 yen. Shiro’s daily routine is to leave work on time and head to a discount ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, thrilling, psychological
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Umami (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Following a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since he was defeated by a Japanese chef's bowl of noodles as a young man.
Style: semi serious, psychological, culinary, captivating, satirical ...
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Place: japan
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Ramen Shop (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Singapore, Japan, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Masato is a young ramen chef in the city of Takasaki in Japan. After the sudden death of his emotionally distant father, he chances upon a suitcase of memorabilia and a red notebook – filled with musings and old photos – left behind by his ...
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, contemplative
Plot: chef, food, cooking, journey, family relations, memories, memory, self discovery, parents and children, society, cooking and food, past ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Strawberry Shortcakes (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Based on the eponymous josei manga by cartoonist Kiriko Nananan, the pic follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives. The main characters, impeccably played ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
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Woman Who Eats (2018)
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Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Story follows the daily lives of 8 women with different backgrounds, including Atsuko Mochitsuki (Kyoko Koizumi), through what they eat and whom they date. --asianwiki
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TV show
Story: A restaurant opens at midnight until seven in the morning. Its mysterious owner and chef, simply called the "Master," has no fixed items on his menu, but will take orders from any customer and cook up whatever they ask for. As the Master ...
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18%
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