No MPAA rating. In Japanese with English subtitles. Magnolia Pictures. 81 min. Kentucky Theatre. 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 lot. Octogenarian Jiro Ono ...

Although it sometimes strains to fill its brief (barely 80 minutes) running time, David Gelb’s documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi is a well-crafted tribute to hard-working and humble sushi chef Jiro Ono, whose modest Tokyo restaurant (just 10 ...

Father-son intensity is served raw in David Gelb's Jiro Dreams of Sushi. When David Gelb, a small-time American filmmaker, set out to make a feature-length documentary about legendary Japanese sushi chef Jiro Ono, the 28-year-old had what he thought was a ...

Over the past 20 years, many Americans have come to appreciate the difference between sushi and sashimi, but how about Chirashizushi and Inarizushi? It’s with these finer distinctions that the sushi cognoscenti differentiate themselves, and in search of ...

EVERYONE has a favourite food movie. Mine is Babette's Feast, Gabriel Axel's sublime Danish film about a woman who wins the lottery and spends all her money preparing one gorgeous meal. One way or another, films about food tend to be films about the search ...

Santa Monica, CA, May 21, 2012 | SHOOT Publicity Wire | --- Bicoastal production company Nonfiction Unlimited has added David Gelb to its roster of award-winning documentary commercial filmmakers. Gelb will focus on commercials, short films and ...

LOS ANGELES, May 21, 2012, --- Director David Gelb, whose lauded documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi made its North American premiere at last year's Tribeca Film Festival, has joined the roster of bicoastal Nonfiction Unlimited for representation in ...

If you don’t care about food, you’ll be mouth-open asleep within the first 10 minutes of Jiro Dreams of Sushi. If food is your thing, you’ll be open-mouthed, too. With delight. Assigned, as resident food-maven, to see the 2012 study of Tokyo sushi ...

A portrait of a sushi master is more about family than food. Jiro Ono really did dream about sushi when he was a young man learning his craft in Tokyo after World War II. The restaurants in which he worked followed the rules established more than 100 years earlier.

Jiro Dreams of Sushi, a documentary film directed by David Gelb, is the story of an 85-year-old perfectionist sushi master named Jiro Ono who runs a 10-seat sushi restaurant in a Tokyo subway station that has garnered a three-star Michelin rating, despite ...