{"id":19054,"date":"2012-02-08T23:18:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T07:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=19054"},"modified":"2012-02-09T00:38:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T08:38:29","slug":"jiro-dreams-of-sushi-david-gelb-2011-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=19054","title":{"rendered":"Jiro Dreams of Sushi (David Gelb, 2011): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Linda Lopez<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed at SBIFF. Lobero Theater.<\/p>\n

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It you are a sushi lover, you must see \u201cJiro Dreams of Sushi.\u201d\u00a0 If you\u2019re not, I guarantee if you watch this film it will inspire you to do the best you can in whatever you do.<\/p>\n

\u201cJiro Dreams of Sushi\u201d is a documentary about 85-year old Jiro Ono, who is the master sushi chef <\/strong>in Japan and owner of a world-renown sushi restaurant located in a basement in the Ginza area of Tokyo.\u00a0 His restaurant is listed in Michelin\u2019s Guide with three stars.<\/p>\n

If you want to have a meal at\u00a0Jiro’s sushi shrine, you need to make reservations at least two months in advance, and it will cost you 30,000 Yens (approximately $300 per person).<\/p>\n

Jiro prepares twenty sushi meals per day (ten for lunch and ten for dinner).\u00a0 Each meal comprises of twenty sushi servings (meaning twenty delectable mouthfuls per person).\u00a0 His son Yoshikazu goes to the fish market every day to buy only the best fish, and he pays top prices because his father Jiro only uses the best.<\/p>\n

Yoshikazu is also in line to replace Jiro when his father retires.\u00a0 Jiro\u2019s other son, Sukiyabashi, has his own very successful sushi restaurant.\u00a0 According to the film, many sushi connoisseurs prefer Sukiyabashi over Jiro because the son has a more relaxed atmosphere as opposed to the father\u2019s restaurant.\u00a0When you go to Jiro\u2019s restaurant, the sushi guru stands across each of his clients on the other side of the bar serving each sushi morsel likened to a symphony conductor.\u00a0 Jiro also scrutinizes every reaction to each serving of sushi.\u00a0 This can be intimidating to some customers, but alas, the serious sushi connoisseur is only interested in satisfying their appetite.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Yoshikazu is working under his father\u2019s shadow but supervises the other young sous chefs, who painstakingly filet and slice fish in miniscule slivers, and massage octopuses for 45 minutes to make them tender.\u00a0 They also spend hours perfecting every sushi ingredient, which requires focussed attention and patience to every minute task.<\/p>\n

Since Jiro is 85 years old, he is grooming his son to take over his business.\u00a0 \u00a0It takes ten years of apprenticeship to become a bon a fide sushi chef, and his son Yoshikazu can certainly stand out on his own in the art of making sushi.\u00a0 Surprisingly, Yoshikazu divulged that Michelin tasted his sushi and not that of his father\u2019s.<\/p>\n

There is film footage covering Jiro\u2019s younger life which gives the audience a glimpse of what\u00a0shaped him to\u00a0be the perfectionist as he is.\u00a0 He only\u00a0shared one photograph of his father and himself when Jiro was a small child.\u00a0 His father made a living by taking people out for boat rides.\u00a0 Although he was successful for a short while, he soon started to have drinking problems and abandoned his family.\u00a0 By the time Jiro was nine years old he was on his own.\u00a0 Later, he was in the Japanese\u00a0military during World War II.<\/p>\n

Although Jiro has scars\u00a0from his early life, he was able to grow from\u00a0his early\u00a0experiences.\u00a0\u00a0He also\u00a0realized that he had the ability to\u00a0determine his own destiny.\u00a0 For Jiro,\u00a0mastering a skill, and then perfecting it, provided the impetus to make perfect sushi.\u00a0\u00a0In one scene in the film, Jiro ties on his freshly starched and ironed apron, as if he\u2019s getting ready for a match in martial arts, which immortalizes Jiro’s gusto in attaining perfection.<\/p>\n

After the film presentation, Director David Gelb shared with the audience that musical scores from Tchikovsky and Mozart were chosen for the background music\u00a0because\u00a0they\u00a0emulate the scale heights\u00a0that correlate\u00a0to Jiro’s strive for perfection.\u00a0 On that note, Gelb said that in the editing process of making this documentary, they were following Jiro\u2019s philosophy:\u00a0 Follow your passion and do everything as perfect as you can.<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Linda Lopez.\u00a0 Viewed at SBIFF. Lobero Theater.   It you are a sushi lover, you must see \u201cJiro Dreams of Sushi.\u201d\u00a0 If you\u2019re not, I guarantee if you watch this film it will inspire you to do the best you can in whatever you do. \u201cJiro Dreams of Sushi\u201d is a documentary about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1958,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1958"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}