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Midnight Diner 2

2016 · 108 min

A gentle, quietly bittersweet drift through late-night encounters, savoured slowly like a warm bowl of comfort food.

Directed by
Jōji Matsuoka
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Kaoru Kobayashi, Aoba Kawai, Koichi Sato
Overview
The Master's late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.

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Directed by
Jōji Matsuoka
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Kaoru Kobayashi, Aoba Kawai, Koichi Sato
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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • loneliness
  • found family
  • aging
  • love
  • healing
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • anthology
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour4
Realism7
Romance3
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight6

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Genres
drama, comedy
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
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Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
108 min
Country
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Languages
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