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Agree that this will make you desperately crave sushi. For months.

Disagree that there's anything all that heartbreaking about it. This is the kind of brain and dedication it takes to master something that requires minute attention every single day. I don't really pity him or his family any more than I'd pity any other great artist. If his family was so hurt by it, you wouldn't think they'd all still be involved in the business, or care for him so evidently.
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I saw this documentary, and recommend it, though I'm not a true foodie and the only sushi I ate in Japan came off a moving track. As for heartbreaking, possibly in a very mild way, but it's an interesting glimpse into Japanese culture in all its wonderfully alien (to us) glory.

(What will be truly heartbreaking to me will be if I'm still working at Jiro's age.)
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Agreed, good film. Hope you saw 'Tampopo' Marjorie - great film!
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Tampopo is the best movie of all time. EVERYONE SHOULD GO SEE IT TOMORROW. Seriously, drop everything.

If you like Tampopo, be sure to check out Juzo Itami's The Funeral and A Taxing Woman, two of his best. Movie Madness has them (because they're the best).

Frankieb, thanks for the heads up on that; it's one of my favorite movies and I didn't know it was playing.
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C&B -- man, I was and am still sad by Itami's suicide.

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