The acceptance of international marriages, familial piety, the stresses of parenthood, the regret of wasted lives, the panic of a porn collection being found after death - all are focuses of the show’s short episodes. Instead, each meal is a springboard for stories that deal with the customers' various problems. Each episode is loosely based around these dishes, but despite the lingering cooking shots and neatly presented dishes, it's not a foodie show. Master serves only pork miso soup as standard, but will make anything his customers ask for - assuming he has the ingredients at hand. The salient facts are simple: the owner of the diner, known to his customers as "Master," only opens his restaurant from midnight to 7AM, and serves a revolving cast of diner customers, both regulars and visitors. But that doesn't mean you'll need to bone up on years of back story to dial into the new series. Like Terrace House, Midnight Diner had a life before Netflix, existing as a manga, a TV drama, and a movie before the streaming company bought the rights as part of its Japanese expansion. Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories follows the owner and clientele of a tiny Tokyo restaurant, telling short, touching stories of family, friendship, and humanity in the heart of urban sprawl. Terrace House has become Netflix Japan's breakout international hit - and with good reason - but for my money it runs second place to another of the streaming service's Japanese shows.
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