Midnight Diner
Shin'ya Shokudō (深夜食堂; lit. 'Midnight Diner'), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yarō Abe. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original Zōkan from October 2006 to August 2007, before being transferred to Big Comic Original in August 2007. Its chapters have been collected in 29 wide-ban volumes as of November 2024. It is about a late-night diner, open from midnight to dawn, and its eccentric patrons.
It was adapted into a Japanese television drama, directed by Joji Matsuoka and starring Kaoru Kobayashi as the Master, and ran for three seasons from 2009 to 2014. A live-action film premiered in 2015. Netflix Japan produced a fourth season and a second live-action film in 2016, and a fifth season in 2019. The series was also adapted into a Korean television series, titled Late Night Restaurant, in 2015, and a Chinese television series in 2017.
By October 2014, the manga had over 2.3 million copies in circulation. In 2010, it won the 55th Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category and the 39th Japan Cartoonist Award.
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