Shinya Shokudo 2 (2011)

Yakuza and diner regular Ryu’s favorite meal is Master’s “red wieners.” One day, his high school baseball teammate-turned-detective Noguchi appears. (Source: Netflix)

Saya always orders fried chicken and then dozes off at the diner. She financially supports her struggling comedian boyfriend, but he is cold to her. (Source: Netflix)

Oren, drunk again tonight, eats sake-steamed clams at the diner. Her worried son carries her home. He is unable to take away her joys of drinking. (Source: Netflix)

Bento shop employee Shoji has a crush on Ikumi, who loves Master’s aspic. He is shocked when patron Komichi tells him Ikumi works in the sex trade. (Source: Netflix)

Filmmakers Genki and Yuki bring canned pineapples to Master who makes them sweet and sour pork. They meet Kikuno and ask her to star in their film. (Source: Netflix)

After novelist Suzuki leaves, hostess Hana and her customer enter the diner. Hana sheds tears as she eats her creamed stew, remembering her mother. (Source: Netflix)

Regular customer Tsukiko is a TV screenwriter. She comes again alone, revealing how she recently shared Master’s pickled cabbage with a cab driver. (Source: Netflix)

Hitomi often supported young men only to be cast aside. She falls in love with older man Hashimoto. The two eat cold noodles at the diner on weekends. (Source: Netflix)

Patron Kanemoto visits the diner with beautiful Chiaki. Seeing Master’s meat and potato dish, she recalls how her family was too poor to buy beef. (Source: Netflix)

Gyoza is the one item Master orders from Murata instead of making himself. Murata’s wife Momoko has an intimate past with diner regular Katagiri. (Source: Netflix)