Is the TV show Bambino! available on Netflix, Disney+, Prime or Apple TV+?

On behalf of the Stream Tracker team, here’s a quick introduction to Bambino! (2007) and where to find it online. Adapted from Tetsuji Sekiya’s award-winning cooking manga — which took the 2008 Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general manga — the live-action drama follows the trials of a young chef learning the ropes in a high-pressure restaurant kitchen, from sauce and pasta to service and mentorship. First broadcast on NTV from April 18 to June 27, 2007 (and later shown in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico on TV Japan in early 2008), Bambino! mixes culinary craft and kitchen drama. In the article that follows, Stream Tracker checks whether you can stream Bambino! on Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video or Apple TV+ and explains the best ways to watch.

Synopsis

Bambino!, written and illustrated by Tetsuji Sekiya, is a Japanese cooking manga serialized in Shogakukan’s seinen magazine Big Comic Spirits. By February 2009 the series had been collected into 14 volumes by Shogakukan. In 2008 it shared the Shogakukan Manga Award in the seinen/general category with Kurosagi by Takeshi Natsuhara and Kuromaru. A live-action adaptation aired on NTV from April 18 to June 27, 2007, and was later shown on TV Japan (an NHK affiliate) across the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico from January to March 2008.

Release date

2007

Seasons / Episodes

1s / 11ep

Total duration

8h 48min

Rating

Country

Japon

Genre(s)

Drame

Cast

Jun Matsumoto Karina Ryuta Sato Yuki Uchida Kuranosuke Sasaki Kazuki Kitamura Masachika Ichimura