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- 2016
- 1 h 30 m
- 2016
- 1 h 30 m
Summary In a world where most mass produced goods are heavily automated, a small group of manual laborers must brave unusual working conditions to preserve a 2000-year-old tradition that we have come to know as saké.
Directed By: Erik Shirai
Written By: Erik Shirai
- 2016
- 1 h 30 m
- 2016
- 1 h 30 m
The Birth of Saké
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Summary In a world where most mass produced goods are heavily automated, a small group of manual laborers must brave unusual working conditions to preserve a 2000-year-old tradition that we have come to know as saké.
Directed By: Erik Shirai
Written By: Erik Shirai
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Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
69
75% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
25% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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A richly immersive documentary that plays like an elegy for a time-honored but slowly vanishing way of life.
Mr. Shirai nicely shuffles in the back stories of several workers, and his shots of sky, sea and early morning landscapes could fit amid Hokusai woodcuts.
Making good use of his camera-department experience on Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations and elsewhere, Shirai seeks out the visual appeal of both the brewery's operation.
[Shirai] indulges his subjects' lack of introspection and focuses on the ephemeral beauty of the brewery's centuries-old sake-making method.
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Production Company
Imakoko Media
Release Date Mar 18, 2016
Duration 1 h 30 m
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Website
http://www.birthofsake.com/
Awards
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Palm Springs International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Ashland Independent Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination