Each night a midnight diner serves up just four dishes, but customers aren't really there for the food: They've come for advice and a sympathetic ear.

The midnight diner's master serves up food and sympathy to more motley customers, ranging from yakuza to pachinko parlor workers to strippers.

A detective, a manga editor, a failed cartoonist and a single mother are among the customers who come to the midnight diner for food and company.