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Midnight Diner [Available Aug. 17 on Blu-ray™.] Tony Leung Ka-Fai's captivating, delightfully charming, quirky, well-acted, 103-minute, 2019 film based on Yarô Abe's manga series Shin'ya Shokudo in which a kindhearted, talented, no-nonsense, hardworking, scarred Chinese chef (Tony Leung Ka-Fai) diligently operates a small, hole-in-the-wall, counter-only restaurant from midnight to early morning catering to the palates and hearts of his faithful, eclectic clientele, including a mediocre boxer (Tony Yo-ning Yang) who falls for a symphony-loving mother (Tao Liu) with a disabled daughter, an elderly tailor (Stanley Sui-Fan Fung) who eventually dates a feisty alcohol-swigging seafood vendor (Elaine Jin), a pudgy perfumer (Joyce Cheng) with a highly sensitive nose working at an aromatherapy firm desperately tries to lose weight in the hopes of attracting the eye of a basketball-playing executive (Charles "Blackie" Chen) who was her high school crush after he invites her to dinner, a guilt-ridden policeman (Li Zhang) with a temper who secretly wants to make amends for a past wrong, a wonton-loving singer/musician (Junyan Jiao) who tragically suffers from a brain tumor teams up with a lyricist (Deng Chao) after returning to China after her parents' death, and a jealous taxi driver (Vision Wei) who is smitten with an ambitious, omelet-obsessed receptionist (Yishang Zhang) who dreams of being an actress, who enter his humble establishment in Shanghai to partake of his culinary delights.
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