After three hit
...After three hit
...The Midnight Diner is open for business again in the acclaimed franchises second feature film. Based on Abe Yaros manga Shinya Shokudo, the slice-of-life series Midnight Diner revolves around a late-night Shinjuku alleyway restaurant run by the wise & enigmatic Master (Kobayashi Kaoru). Every day from midnight to 7 a.m., the diner becomes the watering hole for regulars of all walks, from stoic gangsters to chatty office ladies. Theres only one item on the menu, but as long as he can, Master will make anything asked & provide a sympathetic ear & sage advice to all the night owls who come through his door in search of food & conversation.
Alongside the airing of the fourth season Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories in 2016, the series also released its second silver-screen feature, again directed by Matsuoka Joji. Keeping with the heartwarming episodic formula of small human stories, Midnight Diner 2 welcomes back regulars like Odagiri Joe, Matsushige Yutaka, Mitsuishi Ken & Yo Kimiko, & adds new diners with stories to share. Tabe Mikako, reprising her role from the first film, takes in an elderly woman (Watanabe Misako) who was conned into coming to Tokyo & is looking for her estranged son. Kawai Aoba plays a stressed editor who falls for a man (Sato Koichi) she meets at a funeral, but he may not be what he seems. Ikematsu Sosuke plays a soba shop owners son whose aimless personality & relationship with an older woman (Kojima Hijiri) greatly worry his mother.