The stern-faced master of this diner only wields his knife from midnight to 7 am. The yakuza Ryu has...

Struggling singer Miyuki orders her favorite “nekomamma”. Master recalls another regular who is a ly...

Miki, Rumi and Kana meet at the diner to eat “ochazuke” (hot tea over rice) and gab about men. Maste...

Master starts each night by making potato and macaroni salad. A recent regular and charismatic porn...

Komichi brings food critic Toyama to the diner, who kills the mood. Goro comes for his usual butter...

Boxer Kacchan always eats katsudon (pork cutlet over rice) after a win. He falls in love with anothe...

Hopeful star Risa meets struggling student and newspaper delivery boy Nakajima at the diner. They sh...

Ex-idol Rinko visits the diner. Her former fan club members get excited when they hear she ate a pla...

Yachiyo, an older lady, visits the diner two days in a row. She becomes friends with Marilyn the str...

Gen, who usually comes with his “big bro” Ryu, is alone tonight when he orders ramen. He then stabs...

Ryu the local gangster boss, Noguchi is a detective both coming from the same high school. A colleag...

An overworked young woman name keeps falling asleep at the diner. Master makes her a special drink....

A middle aged martial arts teacher and his elderly mother seem to constantly bicker and fight, but a...

A struggling food truck owner gets unexpected help from a young lady. They grow close, but her real...

A group of young film makers producing a movie about a suicide at the same site bumps into a mysteri...

An author with some writers block issue decides to solicit an escort for stress relief, but the chan...

A young screenwriter has to live through a scandal after her affair with her producer is revealed.

A bowl of cold noodles reminds a soon to retire detective of a fugitive that had eluded him his enti...

A hardworking young lady delivers a singing birthday telegram at the diner and winds up falling in l...

Katagiri, a lonely philosopher has shared history with the master in their past lives. A chance enco...

Widowed singer Misao Kashima makes a rare visit to eat minced meat cutlets. Misao has been unable to...

Comic editor Uno brings up-and-coming award-winning artist Hashimoto to eat Master’s pork-wrapped to...

Private detectives Kei and Mamoru are drawn to the aroma of Master’s simmered taro and squid. They s...

Regular Komichi falls for Kasumi, whose past is unknown. She asks Master to make pickled ginger temp...

Miho and Sayuri, in charge of their elementary school reunion, order vermicelli salad. The two recal...

The weather is getting cooler so Master prepares extra stuffed cabbage to the regular customers’ del...

On Saturday mornings, Yoshio and wife Mizue come to eat clam soup. People refer to them as a close c...

”Do you have sautéed burdock?” asks stately Chizuru Ichikawa as she enters the diner. She is Gen’s f...

Detectives Noguchi and Izumi always disagree. He wants “liver and chives”, she wants “chives and liv...

It’s New Year’s Eve. The regulars all come by to ring in the new year with Master’s soba noodles. Th...