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Maggie Lee, Hollywood Reporter, 2013-01-07By the time this graceful film is over you understand why Japan has declared the bald, bespectacled Jiro a national treasure.
sushi fm onlineEven if you've never tasted sushi, the man's singleness of purpose will inspire you.Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune, 2012-04-20Gelb apparently understood that his subject was itself so taking that he wouldn't need filmic embellishments to keep his viewers alert.Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic, 2012-04-20Obsessive, we were saying? Oh my, yes, and that's what makes the film so compelling.Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic, 2012-04-19This 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.Evan S. Benn, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2012-04-12The most interesting moments, however, belong not to the chef but to those who labor in his shadow.
Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 2012-04-06As exhausting as Jiro may be, he's also inspiring.John Anderson, Newsday, 2012-04-06Would you be willing to massage an octopus for 45 minutes, until its flesh possesses just the right amount of chewability? Ty Burr, Boston Globe, 2012-04-05I really wish Tokyo were closer.Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 2012-04-05As a documentary about world-class sushi, this film is definitive. It runs only 81 minutes, but the subject is finite.Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 2012-04-05A case study in the phenomenon of mastery.Tom Keogh, Seattle Times, 2012-03-29At the age of 85, the subject of this fascinating documentary not only dreams of sushi but still drives himself to make it better.Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal, 2012-03-24Overall, this is a pleasant and often enlightening journey.Stephanie Merry, Washington Post, 2012-03-23Jiro Dreams of Sushi isn't just a film for foodies, or Japanophiles. It's a meditation on work, on finding one's path in life, and then walking it with singular purpose.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer, 2012-03-22Director David Gelb pulls back the curtain on the kitchen rituals of sushi, inviting us to experience the savory-smooth sensation of ''umami,'' roughly translated as ''Ahhh!''Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly, 2012-03-21A profile of a celebrity chef, a quick cultural immersion and many mouth-watering montages of food preparation in one package.Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail, 2012-03-16"Jiro Dreams of Sushi"is as elegant and tasty as the splendid sushi prepared by the man in the title, and that is saying a lotKenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times, 2012-03-15It is as much a family saga as a visit to sushi nirvana, and that adds an unexpected and satisfying narrative to this visual stunner.Linda Barnard, Toronto Star, 2012-03-15It's beautifully photographed and explained at every stage from market to table, a foodie's dream night at the movies. The gentle shaping of the fish and sushi could lull you into a trance. Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine, 2012-03-09
Airbnb cofounder and Chief Product Officer Joe Gebbia is one of a new crop of designer founders who have successfully morphed their design careers into building and running breakout startups. And these new designers have been looking to some very non-traditional creators for inspiration. Gebbia told a group of designers at an event, which was a collaboration between AIGA SF and Parisoma, in San Francisco on Wednesday night that the movie Jiro Dreams of Sushi represents what they fundamentally believe at Airbnb. In case you haven’t seen the documentary, which came out in 2011, Jiro is an octogenarian sushi master who has perfected the art of making sushi at his Michelin three-star restaurant in the Ginza subway in Tokyo. He’s spent decades perfecting simple tasks like selecting, cutting, and preparing the best fish. “Jiro embodies craftsmanship and detail,” said Gebbia, explaining: One of the responsibilities of designers is to seek out and find the details. If we don’t who else will?
Gebbia, who graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, says he took his entire product team to Jiro Dreams of Sushi. “At Airbnb we’re trying to build a culture that supports details, celebrates them, and gives our teams creative license to pursue them,” said Gebbia. I’m not interested in the debate about what comes first engineering or design, said Gebbia, “the important thing is designing the farm,” or the environment for these things to thrive. For example, Gebbia cited a small detail that Airbnb built into its host messaging system. When a host is replying to a guest, the email can be repopulated with a message that the host sent to a former guest, but with the name changed for the current guest. The idea is that a host will commonly be emailing the same things to multiple guests, and the auto population can save them significant time. One host was so happy with the time-saver that they sent a gushing email to the team. Airbnb might be a $2.5 billion-plus valued company now, but of course it wasn’t always so.
Gebbia — who says his first entrepreneurial venture was selling drawings of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to classmates in grade school — remembers the times of rejection quite clearly. Around 2008 we were “staring in the face of rejection,” after attempting to raise funding from venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. “We got 20 email intros to investors, 10 emailed us back, 5 took coffee meetings with us, and zero invested in us,” recalls Gebbia. Some of the best advice Gebbia says he got in 2009 from Paul Graham, the head of Y Combinator, who accepted the Airbnb founders into his accelerator. Graham gave the company permission to solve problems that wouldn’t scale, said Gebbia, explaining that Graham told his team to “go out and meet your customers.” The early team started staying in the Airbnb rooms in New York and realized the hosts needed much better photography to show off their housing assets. After spending a weekend renting a camera, photographing host accommodations and publishing them on the site, bookings started growing immediately.