Movies and TV shows like Midnight Diner
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Midnight Diner (2009)
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Original name: 深夜食堂
Genre: Comedy, 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 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.
Style:
psychological, sincere, touching, melancholic, contemplative, anthology
Plot:
restaurant, food, diner, unrequited love, chef, money, beer, boss, cooking, customer, storytelling, employee, employer, cookery, humanity, life lesson, lgbt, nightlife, life, recipe, midnight, japanese food, multiple narrators, kitchen, cook
Time:
2000s
Place:
tokyo
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Most similar movies to Midnight Diner
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, semi serious and melancholic films and TV series with plots about food, restaurant, chef, cooking, slice of life, friendship and cookery mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Midnight Diner: Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories (2016), Little Forest: Summer/Autumn (2014), Sweet Bean (2015), Late Night Restaurant (2015), From Scratch (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, 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 ...
Style:
melancholic, sincere, psychological, anthology
Plot:
restaurant, food, small business, unrequited love, storytelling, business manager, japanese police, multiple storylines, homelessness, haunted by the past, humanity, cookery ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
anthology, captivating, disturbing, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
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Place:
tokyo, japan
Similarity:
100%
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:
captivating, visually appealing, thought provoking, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
food, japanese girl, farmer, village life, solitude, mother issues, female protagonist, provincial life, nature, slice of life, countryside, agriculture ...
Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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…
Style:
culinary, sincere, thought provoking, touching, melancholic ...
Plot:
cooking, chef, restaurant, old age, small business, street vendor, food, elderly woman, old woman, meaning of life, disability, employer employee relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
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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 ...
Style:
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Plot:
food, restaurant, slice of life, chef, customer, past, mysterious past, secret, street gangster, secret past, secrets, actor ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
100%
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, wench, cooking, backpacking, cookery, humanity, inspiration, small business ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
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Story:
An artist finds romance with a chef in Italy and embarks on a life-changing journey of love, loss, resilience and hope across cultures and continents.
Style:
captivating, romantic, thrilling, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
food, love and romance, couple relations, in love, love interest, fall in love, love story, relationships, romantic relationship, love affair, romantic friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
italy
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
chef, restaurant, workplace, food, female chef, manager, cooking, relationships, workplace situations, restaurant owner, cookery, perseverance ...
Place:
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Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
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Story:
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Style:
romantic comedy, unusual plot structure, sexy, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
food, chef, restaurant, love triangle, lie, bisexual man, cooking, youth, love, love and romance, rivalry, deception ...
Place:
south korea, seoul
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, disturbing, contemplative, melancholic
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
food, travel, businessman, gourmet, gastronomy, solitude, loner, loneliness, slice of life, introspection, realism, everyday life ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, psychological, captivating, satirical, culinary ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
A stoic book salesman leads a double life as he plays hooky from work to write his sweets blog. In his journey to attain a glimpse of sweets heaven Kantaro samples various Japanese and Western sweets.
Style:
captivating, humorous, light, entertaining, funny ...
Plot:
food, double life, office worker, life, travel, silly humor, humour, slice of life, japanese culture, gourmet, temptation, bakery ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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Story:
Koizumi is a mysterious and attractive high school student. But what most people don't know about her is that she's a ramen master who is always on the lookout for great ramen restaurants. Everyday, she goes hunting for real-life places ...
Style:
feel good, psychological, semi serious, satirical, captivating
Plot:
food, friendship, japanese schoolgirl, social problems, slice of life, satire, relationship problems, schoolgirl, female protagonist, school, restaurant, publicity ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto, a young chef from the fine dining world, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop after a heartbreaking death. As Carmy fights to transform the restaurant and himself, his rough-around-the-edges kitchen crew ...
Style:
funny, psychological, semi serious, thrilling, entertaining ...
Plot:
chef, family business, food, restaurant, brother sister relationship, cousin cousin relationship, small business, business, workplace, cooking, getting home, job ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
chicago, north america
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Where are we welcome? On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay ...
Style:
atmospheric, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, touching, semi serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Japan
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Audience:
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Country: South Korea
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Plot:
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Country: Japan
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TV show
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
chef, culinary arts, food, cooking, lifestyle, workplace, coping, restaurant, job seeking, workplace situations, cooking show, co worker co worker relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
19%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
culinary, thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
chef, food, cooking, restaurant, workplace, gourmet, personal growth, passion, restaurant owner, cookery, coworker, workplace situations ...
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2020s
Similarity:
19%
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TV show
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, captivating, thrilling, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
chef, restaurant, male female relationship, cook-off, coworker, cooking and food, workplace situations, workplace, female chef, cookery, conflict, food ...
Place:
denmark
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Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
Chinese adaptation of the original Japanese drama.
Style:
captivating, sincere, realistic, anthology, melancholic ...
Plot:
food, diner, slice of life, store, workplace, night, lifestyle, workplace situations, society, nightlife, intimate, loneliness ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
An iconic bon vivant, who barely has enough resources to maintain his affluent lifestyle, hires a young woman from Paraguay to replace the recently deceased maid who took care of him for more than 40 years.
Style:
psychological, captivating, semi serious, satirical, melancholic
Plot:
food critic, satire, old man, generation gap, generation, lifestyle, character study, domestic drama, loneliness, bittersweet, elderly man, tenderness ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
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Story:
This story is about four men who work in a confectionary. Tachibana Keiichiro (Shiina Kippei) is the owner; Ono Yusuke (Fujiki Naohito) is the superb baker that has a mysterious and mesmerizing aura; Kobayakawa Chikage (Abe Hiroshi) is the waiter ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan
Similarity:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 20 min.
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Story:
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Style:
entertaining, satirical, semi serious, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
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Place:
indiana, tokyo, japan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
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Style:
emotional, psychological, captivating, semi serious, satirical ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
parents, neighbor, child, life, bonding, slice of life, relationships, heartwarming, loneliness, everyday life, community, adult child friendship ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
When eight men are assigned to live 14,000 kilometers from home in inhumanly cold conditions, food becomes their new existence.
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
food, lifestyle, isolation, friendship, workplace situations, workplace, buddies, forces of nature, cooking, chef, cooking and food, restaurant ...
Time:
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Place:
antarctica
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Tamako works for a company in the restaurant business. She experiences betrayal from Makoto, a chef she recently hired. Rumors then spread at work about her. Tamako decides enough is enough and quits her job. She decides to open a restaurant and run ...
Style:
psychological, feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
restaurant, friendship, chef, female protagonist, feminism, cookery, ambitious woman, workplace, feminist, satire, ambition, restaurant owner ...
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Moon Seung Mo is a popular chef. Due to the sudden deaths of his parents by fire, he moves to Seoha Village. His peaceful daily life suddenly changes there with the sudden appearance of Yoo Yoo Jin. Meanwhile, Yoo Yoo Jin is a world-famous fashion ...
Style:
psychological, romantic, humorous, talky, touching ...
Plot:
food, memory loss, chef, fashion designer, youth, couples, couple relations, fall in love, love affair, lovers, relationships, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea
Similarity:
17%
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