Films like Midnight Diner

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1. 1

   Sweet Bean

   Film · 2015 · also drama

   The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she's hiding a troubling secret. Life's joys are found...

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   Repast

   Film · 1951 · also drama

   In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's young and flirtatious cousin arrives for a brief stay to esca...

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   Ramen Shop

   Film · 2018 · also drama

   Masato is a young ramen chef in Japan. When he finds his late mother's journal after the sudden death of his emotionally distant father, he takes it with him to her nativ...

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4. 4

   Café Lumière

   Film · 2004 · also drama

   In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She...

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   East Side Sushi

   Film · 2014 · also drama

   Years of working in the food industry have made Juana, a working-class Latina, a chef of speed and skill. Searching for financial stability, she stumbles into a high-ener...

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   Sakuran

   Film · 2006 · also drama

   Kiyoha rises from the lowly courtesan ranks to the high class position of Oiran in the steamy red-light district of Yoshiwara. She is determined to stand on her own two f...

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   Little Forest: Summer/Autumn

   Film · 2014 · also drama

   Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and...

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   Little Forest: Winter/Spring

   Film · 2015 · also drama

   Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm. Later, spring brings thoug...

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   Bright Future

   Film · 2003 · also drama

   Buddies working at an oshibori factory bond over an uncontrollable rage neither can control, as well as a strange jellyfish they keep as a pet.

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    Winged Creatures

    Film · 2009 · also drama

    A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a docto...

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