The exquisite nigiri slices gleam with freshness, and you do learn about the component parts to the perfect serving of sea eel or gizzard shad. January 8, 2013 | It's torture to watch Jiro Dreams of Sushi -- if you are on an empty stomach. January 7, 2013 | By the time this graceful film is over you understand why Japan has declared the bald, bespectacled Jiro a national treasure. Even if you've never tasted sushi, the man's singleness of purpose will inspire you. April 20, 2012 | Gelb apparently understood that his subject was itself so taking that he wouldn't need filmic embellishments to keep his viewers alert. Obsessive, we were saying? Oh my, yes, and that's what makes the film so compelling. April 19, 2012 | This documentary strikes a balance between storytelling and food porn that's hard to come by in foodie flicks. Like a proper sushi meal, "Jiro" left me feeling sated, not stuffed. April 12, 2012 | His restaurant serves only sushi.

It has 10 seats at a counter. It is in the basement of a Tokyo high-rise, not far from a subway stop. It has been awarded three stars, the highest possible rating, by the Michelin Guide. David Gelb's "Jiro Dreams of Sushi" is a documentary about a man whose relationship with sushi wavers between love and madness. He is a perfectionist, never satisfied, and if you go to work for him as an apprentice, you will have to spend weeks learning how to squeeze out a towel properly before moving on to learn how to slice a hard-boiled egg. He agonizes about the placement of mats on his counter. Great attention is paid to where along the counter the 10 customers are seated in relationship to one another. Jiro's 50-year-old son, Yoshikazu, works with him in the restaurant and will inherit it someday. A younger son runs an associated sushi bar elsewhere in Tokyo. At Jiro's, there is a three-month wait for a reservation. A typical meal will cost you more than $300. It will not take very long to eat.

This is a portrait of tunnel vision. Jiro exists to make sushi. Sushi exists to be made by Jiro. Even at the high prices of his premium fresh ingredients, you realize he must be a rich man. But to what end? The existence of his sons are an indication that he has a wife, although we never see her. He must have a home, although we never visit it. There must be hours when he cannot be at work, but the film indicates no amusements, hobbies or pastimes. The idea of his courtship of his wife fascinates me: Forgive me, but I imagine that even while making love, he must be fretting about the loss of valuable sushi-making time. As a documentary about world-class sushi, this film is definitive. It runs only 81 minutes, but the subject is finite. While watching it, I found myself drawn into the mystery of this man. If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough? Standing behind his counter, Jiro notices things. The Unloved, Part 37: "Zabriskie Point" & "The Mystery of Oberwald"

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie ReynoldsBY David Gelb | IN Food Jiro Dreams of Sushi: Preview Master Chef Jiro’s Secrets to Success Chef Jiro on the Challenges of Making Shrimp and Octopus Meet Four California Sushi Masters The Attributes a Sushi Restaurant Needs to be Special About the FilmJiro Dreams of Sushi is the story of 85 year-old Jiro Ono, considered by many to be the world’s greatest sushi chef. Despite its humble appearances, it is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious 3 star Michelin review, and sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimage, calling months in advance and shelling out top dollar for a coveted seat at Jiro’s sushi bar. MORE For most of his life, Jiro has been mastering the art of making sushi, but even at his age he sees himself still striving for perfection, working from sunrise to beyond sunset to taste every piece of fish, meticulously training his employees, and carefully molding and finessing the impeccable presentation of each sushi creation.

At the heart of this story is Jiro’s relationship with his eldest son Yoshikazu, the worthy heir to Jiro’s legacy, who is unable to live up to his full potential in his father’s shadow.The feature film debut of director David Gelb, Jiro Dreams of Sushi is a thoughtful and elegant meditation on work, family, and the art of perfection, chronicling Jiro’s life as both an unparalleled success in the culinary world, and a loving yet complicated father. The FilmmakerDavid Gelb, Producer/DirectorOriginally from New York City, David Gelb currently works and lives in Los Angeles. Most notably, he directed A Vision of Blindness, an extensive behind the scenes look at Fernando Meirelles’s film Blindness, which enjoyed a run on the Sundance Channel. Jiro Dreams of Sushi is his first full-length feature film. LESS Film CreditsExecutive Produced by Matthew Weaver Joey Carey Stefan Nowicki Jeffrey C. NormanExecutive Produced by Chris Kelly Jennifer Carrico Kelly Ed Ojdana Ross M. DinersteinProduced by Kevin Iwashina Tom PellegriniDirected and Produced by David GelbEdited by Brandon Driscoll-LuttringerCinematography by David GelbCo-Executive Producers Jeremy Umland Scott PrisandAssociate Producer Brandon Driscoll-LuttringerProduction Coordinators / Translators Yukako Inoue Shino NakamuraLead Post Translator Hashim Kotaro BharoochaSteadicam Operator Kenichi TaguchiSteadicam Assistant Kouji MizuguchiPost Translators Yuka Shirasuna Yurika Araki DennisVisual Effects by Peter SauvyColor Correction by Brandon

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