It wasn’t until after the movie was over, when an audience member asked about female sushi chefs, that I realized practically everyone in the film—from the apprentices to the chefs to the fishmongers —is male. During his visits to Japan, Gelb had heard a range of explanations for this...
My father didn’t follow in his footsteps, but when I was a kid I remember him singing some noh pieces to me at home. My mother loved classical music and when I was a kid she never let me hear any pop around the house. I’ve been told that I used to hum Beethoven’s Pastorale...