Pun Salad

We have no actual evidence for the claim made in the title, obviously, other than Jiro's word in the matter.

Jiro Ono runs a small 10-seat sushi restaurant in the basement of a Tokyo office building. It costs about 30,000 yen or (Google says at today's exchange rate) $384 to sit down at the counter. Don't even think of just popping in; you need to book your seat months in advance. No menu; you just eat whatever the chef drops in front of you. Jiro is widely thought to be the best sushi chef in world, and perhaps number one in this arm of the galaxy.

So this movie takes a look at Jiro, a tiny 85-year-old man who's been making sushi since he was nine. He has two sons, Yoshikazu and Takashi, and the movie interviews them too. And Jiro is followed on the bullet train as he goes to his high school reunion.

On the plus side: Jiro is an upstanding, occasionally funny, guy. He's (obviously) dedicated to his craft, and the movie shows that dedication well.

However: that doesn't mean you'll find it interesting. How many times can you watch a very sharp knife slice a tuna steak just right to produce a beautiful little fishy masterpiece? The filmmakers think you want to see it a lot. I felt like I was stuck in a very special, very long, very repetitive, episode of Guy Fieri's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. (But that's me: critics and IMDB raters think this movie's pretty good, and Mrs. Salad demanded to go to our local Japanese restaurant the next evening.)

Consumer note: Amazon Prime members can watch this for free, and it's Netflix-streamable.