Tsunekichi Suzuki
Acting
Biography
Tsuneyuki Suzuki (鈴木 常之, Suzuki Tsuneyuki), best known by his artist name Tsunekichi Suzuki (鈴木 常吉, Suzuki Tsunekichi, November 24, 1954 – July 6, 2020) was an actor, singer-songwriter and composer. He was the vocalist and guitarrist of the Japanese band Cement Mixers (セメントミキサーズ). After the group disbanded, que continued as a solo artist. He was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2019 and passed away on July 6, 2020, at the age of 65.
Known For
Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight, and its standard menu consists of just a single choice. However, the customers still come for the amusing chatter and the proprietor's willingness to cook any dish that they request. This drama depicts the lives of the restaurant's patrons, including a yakuza, an unsuccessful actor, a group of office ladies, a newspaper delivery boy, and a stripper.
Midnight Diner
In an otherwise mundane diner open from midnight to 7 a.m., there is no menu – but the chef cooks anything his customers want. Each episode is about different a different customer, as they find simple yet profound connections with one another based on their shared love of a particular dish.
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
The Master's late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.
Midnight Diner 2
A recently divorced and traumatized man moves to Hakodate, Hokkaido and attends a vocational college to learn carpentry along with several other students who are in the same boat as he. When a couple of the guys go to a hostess club the man meets an unconventional girl who likes him and a relationship is born.
Over the Fence
Middle-aged widower Tetsuro finds an unconscious, homeless young man on the riverbank in his small seaside town. Offering him room in his home, Tetsuro and the man who calls himself Shinichi develop a father-son dynamic, despite the secrets that linger between them.
His Lost Name
A wanderer and his son arrive on an obscure northern island of Japan, causing the village of Pu to fall into disarray.
Pu
A humanistic drama about an encounter in the life of a woman around the age of 40, set during the Obon season when the living take time to reflect on the dead. Director Fukuma Kenji is also a poet and a university professor. Chikage (Yoshino Akira) is reunited with Shohei (Suzuki Tsunekichi), a man she once lived together with, and his daughter Saki (Kohara Saori). After several twists and turns, Chikage and Shohei come to share the same roof again, but Saki is unable to accept it. Then one year later during Obon, relations eventually thaw between Chikage and Saki.