Jiro Dream

Kudus Tiamiyu
Prof. Fitzgerald

Jiro the dreams Sushi directed by David Gelb alongside, The gleaner and I produced and directed by Agnès Varda is a critically acclaimed documentary reflecting on food history that have been getting minimum attention of people than they deserve in recent decades. Jiro dreams of Sushi centers on Jiro Ono who is about eighty-five years old. Jiro Ono is seen as a legendary sushi chef in the world though, he operates in a small ten sits Subway restaurant. Jiro is also a father of two of the cast Takashi Ono, his second son who owns his another sushi restaurant in the city and Yoshikazu the first born who still a trainee under his father because according to Japanese culture, the first born of a family must take
On the other hand, those questioned are keen people to Jiro. At a time, we hoped to hear the customers eating’s discussed about the menu he served, but instead the greatness of Jiro was the main focus. Others that were questioned provides no single criticism on Jiro in one way or the other, they all gives credit to him. Although, Jiro still goes to his restaurant every day, his apprentice and his son are the ones doing most of the work. Jiro himself acknowledged that fact when he said” in reality, the sushi is ninety-five percent complete before the fish is brought to me” Therefore, Yoshikazu can be seen as the production man behind Jiro’s sushi. The remaining five percent, what Jiro does is taste the food and tell them to make little corrections if need. All the same, Jiro receives all credits. This conflict creates a sense of confusion for the audience because Jiro’s sushi is not appreciated based on the taste, it is more based on Jiro’s influence. Although, Jiro is very concern about his reputation, he still care greatly for the taste of his