Our Q&A with the brilliant comedian behind Juan Likes Rice & Chicken. If you’re a bit tired of the food world's self-seriousness, you are not alone. Actually, Seth Meyers, Fred Armisen and Bill Hader are on your side. In the newest season of their Emmy-nominated mockumentary series Documentary Now!, these three comedic talents have parodied Jiro Dreams of Sushi, the beloved food film focused on an 85-year-old perfectionist sushi chef. In the episode Juan Likes Rice & Chicken, which airs on IFC tonight at 10:00 p.m., writer Seth Meyers puts a basic dish on the ultimate pedestal. Set in Colombia, Juan’s Rice & Chicken is a Michelin-starred restaurant that is a 45-minute walk from the nearest road. Inspired by Jiro, Juan’s menu is extraordinarily simple, but created with only the very best—and well-massaged—ingredients. With a riveting storyline centered around Juan’s son Arturo, played by Fred Armisen, and cameos by Jonathan Gold and David Chang, you will definitely want to watch.

We chatted with Seth all about Jiro, the episode and the food industry today: How did you choose Jiro Dreams of Sushi? We went into this season realizing that this kind of food porn documentary is a genre that exists now, not just with Jiro, but with things like Chef’s Table on Netflix. I think our directors wanted to do the sort of intense shots of food that you salivate over in documentaries. Have you visited Sukiyabashi Jiro? No I have not. I would like to very much. My wife and I had reservations for the one in New York that his mentee opened (Sushi Nakazawa) and then my wife got very sick with a cold. So we couldn’t go and I still hold it against her. Do you think Jiro would watch Juan Likes Rice & Chicken? What do you think he’d say?I have so much love and respect for him watching the film, but one thing you don’t get a great sense of is what his sense of humor is. So I wouldn’t venture out on a limb and say whether he would like it or not.

How did you get from Japan to Colombia? One thing that led us here is that we wanted to do the entire episode in a foreign language. We were then limited by the fact that of our two cast members, Fred was the only one who had one of those. Spanish gave us a wealth of opportunities. Do you have a particular tie to this dish? I feel like we live in the age now where simple food is treated with a lot more respect than it ever has been before. I read an article about how a food stand in Singapore was awarded a Michelin star and I thought that this is a perfect time for this episode to come out because that’s exactly the kind of thing we’re poking fun at. Were Jonathan Gold and David Chang hesitant to mock their industry? David Chang was the easiest sell on earth. I basically got on the phone with him and gave him a two-sentence description of this episode and he was saying "yes" by the time I was done. We had seen the documentary with Jonathan Gold (City of Gold), which had led us to think he would be perfect in this and he writes beautifully about food.

So fortunately for us, they were both people who had a good sense of humor about what was happening in their industry.YOU ARE HERE: LAT HomeCollectionsMovies_nowumi sushi menu millburn To see "The Wind Rises" is to simultaneously marvel at the work of a master and regret that this film is likely his last.sushi maki brickell delivery menuJapan's Hayao Miyazaki, perhaps the world's preeminent animator, beloved for "My Neighbor Totoro" and an Oscar winner for "Spirited Away," has announced his retirement. kiku sushi staten island order onlineIf he holds to that, it's fitting that this final film, inspired by but not limited to the life of brilliant aircraft designer Jiro Horikoshi, is quintessentially his: stunningly beautiful and completely idiosyncratic.sushi conveyor belt ct

Always determined to tell his kind of stories his way, Miyazaki has returned to subject matter close to his heart — the joy and romance of airplanes and flight, most fully explored in 1992's "Porco Rosso" — but he's elected to tell it in a manner new to him.yo sushi dubai menu mirdifPHOTOS: Hayao Miyazaki, an animated iconThe great fantasist of contemporary animation celebrated for subject matter that has great appeal to children, Miyazaki has chosen to end his career with an inspired-by-history story that has adult relationships at its core.jiro dreams of sushi tribecaYet because this is Miyazaki, even the most realistic sequences, such as those dealing with the Great Kanto Earthquake and fire of 1923, are jaw-dropping visual knockouts. You can feel the care that goes into every hand-drawn frame here, and the emotion that conveys the director's sense of wonder at the pleasures of the physical world.

One of the world's great aeronautical engineers, Horikoshi is an unusual choice for a fervent pacifist like Miyazaki to make a film about because his most celebrated aircraft was the feared Zero fighter plane that attacked Pearl Harbor.Though it is possible, as some writers in Japan have speculated, that Miyazaki intended his film to be part of the country's current debate about increased militarization, the director insists he was inspired by something completely apolitical, a quote he read of Horikoshi's: "All I wanted to do was make something beautiful.""I wanted to portray a devoted individual who pursed his dream head on," Miyazaki wrote in his initial proposal for the film. "Dreams possess an element of madness, and such poison must not be concealed. Yearning for something too beautiful can ruin you. Swaying toward beauty may come at a price." Anyone who considers animation good for only Hollywood piffle will certainly have their heads turned watching this.PHOTOS: Holiday Movie Sneaks "The Wind Rises" begins, not surprisingly, with Horikoshi's childhood in the World War I era.

If the chef in the documentary "Jiro Dreams of Sushi" dreamed of slicing fish, this Jiro literally dreams of soaring through the air, of having an actual airplane parked on his roof that he can use to fly over the stunning, delicately beautiful countryside Miyazaki creates.Making a cameo in Jiro's dreams is a personal hero of Miyazaki's, the visionary Italian aircraft designer Gianni Caproni (whose company manufactured the plane the director's Studio Ghibli production company is named after). It is Caproni who expresses to Jiro a philosophy akin to Miyazaki's own: "Airplanes are not for war or making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams."Too near-sighted to fly himself, Jiro is met again as a young adult, a double for Harold Lloyd in straw boater and dark-rimmed glasses, as he takes a train to Tokyo to begin his airplane engineering studies.On that journey, Jiro not only has to deal with that great Kanto earthquake and fire but he also meets a fellow passenger, a bright young girl named Nahoko who admires the same poems he does.

Though the aftermath of the chaos caused by the earthquake separates them for years, Jiro never stops searching for Nahoko.The central section of "The Wind Rises" deals with Jiro working for aircraft manufacturing giant Mitsubishi and his steady rise through the designing ranks, a visionary pure and simple who just wants to build the best possible aircraft and finds his passion subverted by those in power almost without his realizing it is happening.PHOTOS: Billion-dollar movie clubWe don't see much of everyday Japan during wartime, but Miyazaki does spend considerable time on prewar situations that possibly influenced the course of history. The cityscapes he depicts may be exquisite, but the poverty of the nation and its feeling of inferiority to the West are disturbing. Horikoshi is portrayed as enough of a free thinker to get into political trouble, but his passion for his ideal plane never falters.Though Horikoshi is the film's nominal subject, his personal life has been completely fictionalized by Miyazaki.

The film's melancholy elements, including a charming romantic reconnection with Nahoko, come from the work of Tatsuo Hori, a writer of the pre-World War II era who wrote a novel called "The Wind Rises" that was inspired by the same line from French poet Paul Valery that opens the film: "The wind rises, we must try to live."Despite the obstacles and difficulties life and society throw at them, that's what these characters attempt to do. "The Wind Rises" is a kind of summing up film for Miyazaki, a complex story that resists easy summation, but it is his genius to pull us into this world and make us so not want to leave it. This is a filmmaker who will be missed, and not in a small way.("The Wind Rises" is scheduled for a one-week academy consideration run in its subtitled version and will return to theaters in February in a dubbed edition.)-----------------------------------'The Wind Rises'MPAA rating: PG-13 for some disturbing images and smokingRunning time: 2 hours, 6 minutesPlaying: At Landmark, West Los Angeles PHOTOS AND MORE VIDEO: Upcoming fall films ENVELOPE: The latest awards buzz PHOTOS: Greatest box office flops