Jiro Dreams of Sushi

• Use of classical music emulates skills and refinement
• begins with monetage of pictures
• talks about work
• close ups of making sushi
• Food critic introduces us to Jiro
• see him moving about city
• entering restaurant
• Sequence about reservations shows eliteness of restaurant 
• Different way of valuing food - fast food only lasts 15 minutes
• Jiro's son introduced in relation to his father
• Talent vs hard work set up
• Value of repitition - sequence of him on the train, opening up shop - his dedication gives meaning
• Archive photos juxtapose with his normalcy
• Talks about his past on a train travelling right to left, as if going backwards
• See how tough he is on kids then see where the toughness comes from - biography
• Jior centred in frame as he talks about how he wouldn't let them go to college
• Japanese succession
• 'I would make sushi in my dreams'
• Slo motion emphasizes the movement of the hands
• fades emphasize repitition of process in montage
• Interview in car with Yoshikazu
• Cold snow gives mystical feel in slo mo
• When interviewing tuna salesman he talks to Yoshikaza but talks about Jiro
• Repitiion of examining tuna fast paced- ease of an expert
• Drum music makes auction more exciting
• Blue emphasized at fish market
• Old man club - takes a while to learn skills
• Always returns to passing down, and tradition, young vs old
• Show cooking while talking about memories
• Communal tlaking in the kitchen
• A long time before actually show a customer eating sushi
• Talks about the way it is served to customers like art
• Details in CUs are reflective of the details Jiro notices
• Show Jiro seeing the customers out
• Sushi conveyr belt shows spread
• Takes 10 yeas to get big tuna - everything takes time
• Slo motion of fish market dumping rubbish - more of everything, easy to throwaway
• Yoshikazu comes with Jiro to hometown as well
• Comes back to Yoshikazu - started with Michelin but Yoshikazu prepared the fish for them
• The lineage is passed on