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Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Japan

2011

81 Min
Color
1.85:1
Japanese
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DIR David Gelb

EXEC Matt Weaver, Joey Carey, Stefan Nowicki

PROD David Gelb, Kevin Iwashina, Tom Pellegrini

DP David Gelb

CAST Jiro Ono, Yoshikazu Ono, Masuhiro Yamamoto, Takashi Ono, Hachiro Mizutani

ED Brandon Driscoll-Luttringer

SOUND Darren 'Sunny' Warkentin

Tribeca (World Documentary Features), Transilvania (What's Up Doc), Melbourne (Documentaries), San Sebastián (Culinary Zinema), AFI FEST (World Cinema): Audience Award, São Paulo (New Directors), Stockholm (Competition)

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An appetizing documentary in every sense, Jiro Dreams of Sushi follows 85-year-old master sushi chef Jiro Ono, paying lushly photographed homage to the process of preparing the artisan sushi that earned Ono’s esteemed Sukiyabashi Jiro restaurant three Michelin stars. From the complicated relationship between Jiro and his sons to the ins and outs of the tuna auction, this spirited film profiles all aspects of Jiro’s craft in tantalizing style and detail.

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Joshua Dysart

14May12

Clean and graceful. A portrait of an artist giving everything he has to his medium. Beautiful, humanist and even, in a sly way, tragic as Jiro’s art has not just eclipsed his family but also comes off as a kind of sublimation for dealing with early childhood trauma, all about making and eating raw fish… and living an all consuming creative life. But enough with the Phil Glass. He's a documentary cliché at this point.

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EDDIE I

24Apr12

Their has only been 2 films that have made me hungry while I was watching them, this one and Tampopo.

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22Apr12

The standard of craft in both the filmmaking and the subject are so astronomical that you have no choice but to be in awe of JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI. Even if you've never eaten it in your life and may never will, this film has the power to make you think twice. This is not food as art, it is art as food.

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BrianFromConcentrate

20Apr12

This documentary starts playing here tomorrow and I'm definitely going to see it. I'm a sushi lover and I've always wanted to know more about the great masters of sushi. It seems as if I'm not the only one who is interested...the film is getting great reviews from almost everyone.

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Total Sushi Porn... and more.

By Joshua Dysart on May 14, 2012

Almost entirely free of any cinematic ornamentation, clean and graceful as the confections that Sukiyabashi Jiro Ono and his team (including his 50 year-old son laboring in his shadow) craft. It is…  read review

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