Chef: Three Star School Lunch

Chef: Three Star School Lunch

2016 · 1 season · 10 eps · ★ 8.2 · Drama

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Hoshino Mitsuko is the talented three-star chef of famous French restaurant, La Cuisine de La reine, in Ginza, Tokyo. She has drawn attention not just from Japan but also the world for the new recipes she continuously conceives with her delicate palate and unrivalled creativity. Gourmands around the world visit the restaurant for her cuisine and there is a three-year wait for reservations. One day, trouble occurs between Mitsuko and the restaurant owner Shinoda Shogo and she is fired. She has difficulty finding a new restaurant due to Shinoda’s interference and her over-inflated pride, and ends up creating school lunches for a popular variety programme by a hotshot producer. It was believed to be something easy for Mitsuko, but she meets many obstacles and keeps failing. Moreover, this is aired on TV and made known to the world. Even so, Mitsuko does not give up and starts to create school lunches in order to hear children say her food is delicious and also regain her lost stars.

Directed by Shin Hirano · Written by Hideya Hamada

Network: Fuji TV

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Yuki Amami Mitsuko Hoshino
Kotaro Koizumi Shogo Shinoda
Haruna Kawaguchi Haruko Takayama
Kenichi Endo Heisuke Araki
Yoshiyoshi Arakawa Minoru Komatsu
Narushi Ikeda Masataka Hidaka
Shinpei Ichikawa Shoichi Baba
Shuko Ito Toshiko Inohara
Kosuke Toyohara Kenji Okudera
Tomochika Saki Yaguchi
Nao Miyata Kana
Mai Higuchi

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