fbpx

Midnight Diner Soundtrack – Complete Music List

Midnight Diner Soundtrack

The Netflix Programs Midnight Diner and Midnight Diner Tokyo Stories use music prominently throughout the series to set the scene and provide a counterpoint to the drama depicted. Most strikingly, the show opens with the contrast of Tsunekichi Suzuki’s song Omoide, which we’ve written about extensively before, as a car rolls slowly, as if floating in a dream, through Tokyo streets. It is a bold artistic move, removing the bustling street sounds of car horns and train rumbles that you may expect and replacing them with the sounds of a gently picked folk guitar song from a largely obscure musician. 

This sets the scene for the rest of the Midnight Diner series, where music is used prominently and boldly, almost as if it is another character within a larger dialogue. The Midnight Diner soundtrack also consistently champions lesser known, or more underground artists – in a similar way to how the program itself regularly highlights the outcasts, misfits, and eccentrics of the Japanese night. Artists such as Kimie Fukuhara, who happened to meet the Tokyo Stories director at a party, are regular contributors. Folk underground troubadours such as Sue Marr, with the prominent use of his song Ikiataribattari, help lay the foundation within which the Tokyo Stories unfold. Bands such as the short lived Magic Party close out episodes.

Zeigo Original Tsunekichi Suzuki album featuring main Midnight Diner Opening Theme

The song Ikiataribattari by Suemarr is used prominently in several episodes of Midnight Diner and comes from the album Minstrel:

Album featuring Ikiataribattari

Complete List of Songs Used In Midnight Diner & Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories Soundtracks

Midnight Diner Season 1
Song NameArtist Episode No.Listen online
おもいで (Omoide – Remembrances)鈴木常吉
Tsunekichi Suzuki
Opening Song youtube
Believe in paradiseMagic PartyEnding songyoutube
まよい猫 (Mayoineko – Lost Cat)2youtube
父のワルツ (Chichi no Waltz)鈴木常吉
Tsunekichi Suzuki
2,3,8youtube
函館の人 (Hakodate no Hito – The person from Hakodate)北島三郎
Kitajima Saburo)
5Acoustic fan version
Midnight Diner Season 2
Song NameArtist Episode No.Youtube link
おもいで (Omoide – Remembrances)鈴木常吉
Tsunekichi Suzuki
Opening Song youtube
嘘のつき方 (Uso no tsukikata – How to lie)Love Love LoveEnding Songyoutube
できること (dekiru koto – All I can do)福原希己江
Kimie Fukuhara
1youtube
あさりの酒蒸し (Asari no sakamushi – Sake steamed Clams)福原希己江
Kimie Fukuhara
3youtube
なかないで (Nakanaide – Don’t cry)福原希己江
Kimie Fukuhara
4,7youtube
羽田( Haneda)福原希己江
Kimie Fukuhara
10youtube
Midnight Diner Season 3
おもいで (Omoide – Remembrances)鈴木常吉
Tsunekichi Suzuki
Opening Song youtube
yakimochi高橋優
Yu Takahashi
Ending Songyoutube
何も言わないで(Nani mo iwanaide – Do not say anything) 星川とき江
Hoshikawa Tokie
1youtube
ぶたトマト( Buta tomato – Bacon wrapped tomato)福原希己江
Kimie Fukuhara
2Apple Music
ちょいと寂しい夜のうた( Choito sabishii yoru no uta – Song of a little lonely night)スーマー
Suemarr
4youtube
紅天の女(Beni Ten no Onna – Women of deep red sky)福原希己江
Kimie Fukuhara
4youtube
ロールキャベツ (Rooru Kyabetsu – Cabbage Rolls)福原希己江
Kimie Fukuhara
6youtube
人生行きあたりばったり(Jinsei ikiataribattari – Life by chance)スーマー
Suemarr
10youtube
想い想われ(Omoi sou ware)福原希己江
Kimie Fukuhara
10youtube
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories Season 1
おもいで (Omoide – Remembrances)鈴木常吉
Tsunekichi Suzuki
Opening Song youtube
人生行きあたりばったり(Jinsei ikiataribattari – Life by chance)スーマー
Suemarr
Ending song of episode 1youtube
道路 (Douro – Road) スーマー
Suemarr
Ending song of episode 3Youtube
雨の想い出(Ame no omoide – Memories of rain)福原希己江
Kimie Fukuhara
4Youtube
ちょいと寂しい夜のうた( Choito sabishii yoru no uta – Song of a little lonely night)スーマー
Suemarr
Ending song of episode 4youtube
夜明けまで( Yoake made – Untill Dawn)スーマー
Suemarr
5Youtube
月明かりよ( Tsukiakariyo – Moonlight)スーマー
Suemarr
Ending song of episode 5Youtube
ちょいと寂しい夜のうた( Choito sabishii yoru no uta – Song of a little lonely night)スーマー
Suemarr
Ending song of episode 7youtube
想い想われ(Omoi sou ware)福原希己江
Kimie Fukuhara
Ending song of episode 8youtube
できること (dekiru koto – All I can do)福原希己江
Kimie Fukuhara
9youtube
人生行きあたりばったり(Jinsei ikiataribattari – Life by chance)スーマー
Suemarr
Ending song of episode 10youtube
想い想われ(Omoi sou ware)福原希己江
Kimie Fukuhara
Ending song of episode 10youtube
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories Season 2
おもいで (Omoide – Remembrances)鈴木常吉
Tsunekichi Suzuki
Opening Song youtube
ミルクをしぼる少女(Miruku wo shiboru shoujo)福原希己江
Kimie Fukuhara
1Youtube
石(Ishi – Stone)鈴木常吉
Tsunekichi Suzuki
Ending song of episode 1Youtube
人生行きあたりばったり(Jinsei ikiataribattari – Life by chance)スーマー
Suemarr
Ending song of episode 2youtube
夜明けまで( Yoake made – Untill Dawn)スーマー
Suemarr
Ending song of episode 3Youtube
ちょいと寂しい夜のうた( Choito sabishii yoru no uta – Song of a little lonely night)スーマー
Suemarr
Ending song of episode 4youtube
おもいで (Omoide – Remembrances)鈴木常吉
Tsunekichi Suzuki
Ending song of episode 5youtube
碧い月の夜に(Aoi tsuki no yoru ni – On a blue moon night)福原希己江
Kimie Fukuhara
Ending song of episode 6Youtube
ミルクをしぼる少女(Miruku wo shiboru shoujo)福原希己江
Kimie Fukuhara
Ending song of episode 9Youtube
おもいで (Omoide – Remembrances)鈴木常吉
Tsunekichi Suzuki
Ending song of episode 10youtube
ミルクをしぼる少女(Miruku wo shiboru shoujo)福原希己江
Kimie Fukuhara
Ending song of episode 10Youtube

Digital downloads for the full Suemarr Minstrel album are available here.

List of songs used in Midnight Diner Soundtrack

We couldn’t find a complete list of all the music from Midnight Diner and Midnight Diner Tokyo Stories, so we decided to put one together! 

It’s actually quite a project. There are a lot of different songs used in different episodes, and most of the songs are not credited. Not many come up using audio recognition software such as Shazam, either. So there is a bit of detective work involved. Here is what we have been able to come up with so far, and we will keep adding to the list as we go along.

e7319a946f928d455f2a4c9abc7c687c