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Midnight Diner

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Midnight Diner

Released Sep 20, 2019

1h 30m

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Drama

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Patrons enjoy home cooking and delicious stories at a master chef's small, overnight, counter-only restaurant.

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Asian Movie Pulse

"Midnight Diner" has its faults, particularly regarding its duration and intense sentimentalism on occasion, but emerges as a very easy to watch, quite entertaining spectacle

Rated: 6/10

Sep 12, 2021

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Douglas Davidson

Elements of Madness

Though the release itself is bare bones, there's delicious, nutrient-rich content in the film itself, making for a robust meal all on its own.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 15, 2021

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Richard Yu

Cinema Escapist

By missing out on character development and eschewing presentations of Shanghainese dishes, Midnight Diner fails to entertain both drama-philes and foodies.

Sep 21, 2019

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Andrew Parker

The Gate

A corny Chinese anthology tearjerker that starts off somewhat novel and enticing before growing wearisome and boring.

Rated: 4.5/10

Sep 20, 2019

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Pedro V

Probably one of the best Chinese movies I've ever seen. Great aesthetic, relatable and deep stories. Love the imagery of Shanghai, a lot of cool night shots of the city. Based on a Japanese movie series, I like how it actually feels touches on realities very specific to Chinese modern culture , sometimes in a subtle way others as part of the many side stories portrait in the movie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/24/23

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Enzo S

It was embarrassing to watch this copy of the Japanese version. Geez, at least try to b original. Even got a guy that looks like the Japanese chef! There r so many local Shanghai characters and stories to be shown, instead, 10 minutes into this super cringe-worthy copy, I shut it off and removed it from my watchlist. Sad.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

11/08/23

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Laura

Copy from a Japanese movie, but not as good as the original one

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

10/18/19

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jjla

Such a lovely movie! You can practically smell the gorgeously shot cooking scenes. The vignettes are all beautifully written and rendered.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

09/24/19

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Tony Leung Ka Fai

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Tony Yang Yo-ning

Kai Yuan

Tony Leung Ka Fai

Uncle

Tao Liu

Ming Yue

Yibai Zhang

Boxing Coach

Elaine Jin

Aunt Lian

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Patrons enjoy home cooking and delicious stories at a master chef's small, overnight, counter-only restaurant.

Director: Tony Leung Ka Fai
Screenwriter: Yarô Abe
Distributor: Well Go USA
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: Chinese
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 20, 2019, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $10.9K
Runtime: 1h 30m

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