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Monday, October 01, 2012
"Jiro Dreams of Sushi": can a movie about restaurant food be interesting? (There's more)
Would you think that a movie about food could be
interesting? Could showing it visually,
without odor and taste, make for an interesting film experience?
“Jiro Dreams of Sushi” (directed by David Gelb) shows us a
lot of interesting ingredients, particularly the body parts of octopuses and
various invertebrate sea creatures, as well as tuna steak, in presenting to us
the family that runs the world renowned sushi restaurant in the basement of a
Tokyo office building and subway station.
The restaurant is so renowned that one must make reservations a month in
advance to eat there.
Jiri Ono will eventually pass his business on to his son
Yosihikazu, and some of the film is about the importance of family bloodlines
in Japanese society. Family businesses
gives “street smart” kids a chance to do as well as the academically or
technically inclined. It also gets into environment concerns, particularly
about overfishing.
The official site from Magnolia pictures is here.
I missed this film when it played at the West End in
Washington. It is available on Netflix
now (very quickly) for Instant Play (how
I saw it) but not by DVD. It can be
viewed on YouTube for $3.99. Besides
Magnolia, E-One is also a distributor.
The music is interesting. The film opens with a climactic
passage from the first movement of the Tchaikowsky Violin Concerto in the
background. Later, the slow movement of
Mozart’s 21st Piano Concerto is played, although the film says that
the course is being served to the first movement. Musicians will catch this. (I wonder if they
would use a “recomposed” Coronation Concerto!) The original music, sounding a bit Glass-like,
is composed by three people (Foxworth, Ontic, and Randa).
See also, “The Cove”, Aug. 7, 2009 here.
Picture: That's just in Washington DC (mine).
Picture: That's just in Washington DC (mine).
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