Jiro Dreams Of Sushi Essay

Jiro dreams of sushi is a documentary that follows, Jiro Ono and his successful sushi shop located inside of the Japanese metro station. Over the course of the film, we learn about Jiro’s life as a childhood with an alcoholic father that eventually abandons him. Before he was 10 years old, he was on his own and worked incredibly hard all of his life to build his success now. The film focuses on what it means to be successful as well as his family relationship with his two sons, Yoshikazu and Takashi. Can you measure success in terms of hard work? From an aging perspective, we can talk about this film as a conflicting view of cultures as well as what it means to be successful when one reflects on their life. We need to ask the question of are

Japan is a very respectable and traditionalist society where honor is a focal point. In this film, Jiro takes this traditionalist approach very seriously, making his sushi simple yet complex. All work is meticulously to an almost impossible standard. The young apprentices work years before they work directly with any of the fish. The level of detail that Jiro puts into his work is obsessive to the point of madness; however, this is the cultural norm. The film starts out with Jiro giving his philosophy on how to be successful, which is devoting your life to your work in the pursuit to master it. However, Jiro never has mastered his work because he believes that it can always be better. If we look at his worldview from the later stages of life, it is almost as if he feels that he is inferior to his ideal self and can never quite bridge the gap. Jiro’s outlook is very bleak, it is only when he has a heart attack in his 70’s that he allows his eldest son to start going to the fish market. This indication comes from addressing his own mortality but he still pushes himself to improve. Simply, it seems like he is not satisfied with himself or his