Jiro Dreams of Sushi is teriffic, but a bit superficial, but that's okay because the subject of this very fine documentary already has a one track mind. Sushi and practically nothing but drives the ambitions of Jiro Ono, a frail looking 85 year old who appears to be the product of every one of his advanced years, but he's still sharp and he's still doggedly pursuing his art of making the best sushi possible. And he does, with the camera lovingly capturing gleaming and perfect pieces of sushi as he places them before his soon to be delighted customers.
Besides being excellent food porn, its also visually interesting, well scored, kinda funny, and veeeery informative on the whole 'art of sushi' thing. You might not give a shit about cold fish and rice (actually body tempreture rice Jiro helpfully explains), but its stil a fascinating look inside of how exactly a specialist resturant works and the whole Japanese appreticeship thing, which looks like an understandably dying art.
Jiro's life could be extremely tragic, as his tunnel vision keeps damn near everything that's not at least tangnetially related to sushi out of it(such as his barely mentioned wife). But he clearly enjoys his work, even if he's always seems to be the only guy in the room that can still find any fault in it. After 70 years at work and being arguably the best in the world at what he does, you'd think he'd be satisfied, but as one person puts it "his ghost will still be watching them make sushi".
ps
The Guyver 2 is much better. Great creature violence and David Hayter's (Solid Snake's voice) only significant live action acting role. Its not great, but its a dang solid B-movie with great fight scenes the belie the obviously low budget and supposidely cumbersome suits worn by the stuntmen.
