深夜食堂

にがくてあまい

Orphaned Jang-geum becomes the first female physician in the Joseon Dynasty and her determination is tested when people around her start showing their true faces.

Mizuki plays a 35-year-old woman named Kurumi, who suddenly loses everything in her life when her fiance runs off with all of her assets. Left with a mere 15,000 yen and some boxes of ohagi (a type of rice ball), the despairing Kurumi happens upon a construction site, and she begins handing out the ohagi to the men working there. Using the theme of food, "Tenshi no Wakemae" depicts Kurumi's journey as she turns her life around.

Six stories exploring family, love, and friendship across diverse ages and settings. Tied to the goal of building a well-off society by 2020, it highlights how individuals fulfill personal and communal promises, reflecting shared aspirations and connections.

A story spanning ten years follows three couples and their struggles of love from university to adulthood. Wang Yi and Du Xiao Ju, Peng Feng and Lang Ting, Liang An Qing, and Zhang Chun Lan met each other when they were in university. Six years after graduation, their relationships have undergone many changes. When the three pairs meet again - can the love that remains still continue? can the person who no longer has any feelings muster up the courage to be free? can the one who left have a chance at a reunion? It's about loving someone that you can never be with, having feelings of resentment, loving, parting, and experiencing sorrow and joy.

Han Kyul gives his family's café a new spin, hiring only good-looking men to work there -- plus an androgynous-looking girl he mistakes for a man.

Mare is an elementary school student. She lives with her family in the city, but, right before her father goes bankrupt, they run away and settle down at a fishing village in Noto. The family rents a couple's home who run a salt pond. Mare's father starts a new business, but it also fails. Her mother supports the family by working at the salt pond. 8 years later, Mare, about to graduate from high school, decides to work for the Wajima local government. She wants to have a steady job, unlike her father. Her job is to support people who move to Noto.

After a betrayal, Chiharu moves from Tokyo to Sapporo and discovers a mysterious bento maker who's packed meals magically mend her broken heart.

A sequel of My Day the series. My Story is a fun, exciting, and heartfelt story of love, moving on, and sexual awakening. A reminder that we should enjoy life one day at a time, and that we are the author of our own story.

The story is divided into four parts: spring, summer, autumn and winter. It takes the common life thinking faced by today's young people as the entry point, uses traditional food and Chinese culture to tell the story of love, and shows six contemporary young people staying away from the busy city. In the pastoral life, explore the spiritual journey of returning to nature. It tells the story of a psychiatrist named Fang Yuan who, after the death of his mother, returned to settle in the seaside courtyard where his mother used to live and met a group of friends with very different personalities. They healed their souls through the simple rural life and each found the value of life.

21-year-old Ataru Matoba begins work for an event company as a dispatched worker. This is her first real job. She goes to work wearing a knit hat, sunglasses and a long coat. She is happy to have the various work experiences and she works pleasantly. Ataru Matoba also has a special ability. When she makes eye contact with someone, she can see that person's troubles or indelible memory. With her special ability, Ataru Matoba solves troubles of people she works with.

Saeki Kou works in the sales department of an architectural firm. She is good at her job and admired by her juniors but she often falls into a fantasy world that combines food with love. This is the story of the five different food items and love stories with the five different imaginary boyfriends Kou fantasizes about.

居酒屋ぼったくり

A story of an uptown girl who must journey to Bangkok to search for work and there, confronts difficulties from selfish people. How is she going to navigate her life around this new environment?

Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.

Jun and Yoriko are a couple living in the same apartment. Always busy with work, Sunday is the only day they can spend in each other's company. One day Yoriko decides to "smoke" cook some food. Preparing the food together, waiting for it together, eating together… as long as they're together, they're happy.

When a former chef becomes a teacher at a friend's cooking school, he meets a blind girl who has a knack for smelling and tasting.

愛上巧克力

Set in Qingdao from the 1990s to the early 2000s, the drama follows the ups and downs of Chen Yiduo, Bi Laifu, and their friends during the decade. It depicts the inspirational story of a group of young people in the 90s who grow up and struggle in their youth and pursue a better life amidst the changes of the times.

University student Wakamizu Ryota (Emoto Tokio), who is the middle of job hunting, gets caught up in a sudden gang dispute. Ryota’s life is saved by Yanagiba Ryuichi (Namase Katsuhisa), the boss of Yanagiba-gumi, and Ryota for some reason ends up harbouring Yanagiba in his own home. Ignoring Ryota who wants him to leave immediately, Yanagiba uses the leftover food in the fridge and starts to prepare a meal without asking. However, the meal is surprisingly delicious despite the leftovers that did not seem possible to combine. This is the beginning of a bizarre communal life connected by meals for a gangster and a university student.