Seven celebrity chefs ghost a cruise ship—enter one loser, his apprentice, and absolute chaos.
Season 1 • Episode 10
LatestThe Star Leo is a luxury cruiser shuttling between Japan and Hong Kong. On this cruise, seven top chefs known as "culinary kings" have been invited for a major event in which guests can savor a fancy dinner that they cook up. This event was planned by Shiori Tachibana, a woman who learned business management in Hong Kong. But the restaurant chefs "Heiheiro" aboard the luxury ship left in protest against the event, and to make matters worse, due to a certain slip-up, the "culinary kings" also failed to board the ship, which then set sail for Japan without them. Tachibana gets the cooperation of the "loser" chef remaining in the restaurant together with their apprentice chef, crewmembers and passengers for a team of five people to take on the cooking for the event. What will the voyage of the Star Leo turn out to be?
Acting
Ninomiya's scrappy loser chef energy is impossible not to root for.
Production
Luxury cruise setting makes every plate feel like a small miracle.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Early 2000s J-drama boom loved shoving mismatched experts into high-stakes scenarios—this is peak comfort-food era television.
Kazunari Ninomiya was simultaneously dominating as an Arashi idol; his 'loser' role was deliberate image subversion.
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