Tsukiji Wonderland

Release Date: 2016-10-15 (Japan)

For more than 80 years, Tsukiji Market has served as Japan's food trading hub, supporting Tokyo's progress toward becoming a world-class culinary metropolis, and is the heart of the global Japanese cuisine trend, with a steady stream of pilgrims from all over the world. It is also the heart of the global Japanese cuisine trend and is visited by pilgrims from all over the world. The world's largest wholesale food market will close in November. Following an enthusiastic public response to a mass fundraising campaign, "Tsukiji Market: Heart of Wagyu" was successful in obtaining permission to film intensively for more than a full year at the Tsukiji Market, where media coverage is strictly limited, revealing for the first time previously off-limits work areas. The seasonal catches in spring, summer, fall, and winter, and the changing market landscape in the four seasons, intertwined with the professionalism and work ethic of the fishing market, pull the viewers' breath and heartbeat into the survival posture of the market. The true beauty of Tsukiji, created by tradition, technology, and passion, is finally shown to the world on the big screen, as a magnificent curtain call to preserve historical memories.

The film interviewed 150 people*** from Tsukiji, including wholesale operators and famous chefs such as Jiro Ono, the "God of Sushi" who counted Yabashi Jiro, and Chef René Rétzelpi, the chef of the Scandinavian two-Michelin-starred restaurant Noma, as well as culturists and critics from home and abroad who know the local food culture and pulse of the region, and discussed the world's No. 1 fishery market from a variety of perspectives. TSUKIJI", the world's No. 1 fish market, and Japanese fish culture, which is moving towards internationalization, were discussed from different perspectives.