Jiro Dreams Of Sushi Soundtrack Download
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I loved when Gelb took us to the fish market, to meet the vendors, to see that world. The occasions reiterated the importance of craft, of reputation and of familial legacy. Gelb also found places to address question born of the subject, like Fish Populations; an answer to which endeared Yoshikazu to me even more.
Jiro has dreams of Sushi, but he also has dreams for his sons in whom he has worked as diligently to instill a desire to live a life committed to innovation and improvement. The documentary of Jiro as a master sushi chef is enthralling, but the documentation of his relationships with his son Yoshikazu (and Takashi) lingers equally, if not more so. This is a story of Jiro, inseparable in influence and obsession as father and visionary.
The film is also arty and deliberate in its pacing, with the telling modernist repetition of composer Philip Glass making up much of the soundtrack music. The documentary reveals the daily workings of the small restaurant and its autocratic owner Jiro and his aging son Yoshikazu who is waiting to take over when his father retires (and the younger son Takashi, who escaped to operate his own restaurant in the hip Roppongi district of the city).
In the end, I enjoyed the movie but thought it was too long, and too reverential about Jiro. There were several points where the film could have wrapped up, but it returned to old themes, or went off on new topics.
Either way, eating sushi growing up once we moved to the States was not a common occurrence. With sushi restaurants so rare, and Japanese culture so exotic, non-Japanese would recoil in horror at the thought of me enjoying a slice of raw fish on anything. It was well into the 1980s and even 1990s before sushi caught on with non-Japanese young upwardly-mobile hipsters. For them, eating sushi became a badge of their worldliness (and I suppose, their affluence).
Jiro Dreams of Sushi is a 2011 documentary by David Gelb focusing on Jiro Ono, the 85-year-old owner and head chef of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a (then) three-Michelin-starred ten-seat sushi restaurant in Ginza, Tokyo.note In 2019, it was stripped of its stars because Michelin requires that featured restaurants directly accept reservations from the general public. Jiro's restaurant requires that prospective customers book via the concierge at a nearby luxury hotel.
The film outlines Jiro's incredible dedication to his pursuit of the perfect sushi, the career paths of his sons Yoshikazu and Takashi and various apprentices, the fine details of sushi-making, of selecting the right fish, and so on, interspersed with shots of delicious sushi and set to a Philip Glass soundtrack.
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