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  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 35 m

Summary Discover the art of sake. An age-old staple of Japanese culture and cuisine, the fermented rice wine has recently been winning fans all over the world. Kampai! For the Love of Sake journeys from rice paddies in Japan to breweries around the globe as it chronicles three passionate exponents of the increasingly popular beverage: a British ...

Directed By: Mirai Konishi

  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 35 m

Kampai! For the Love of Sake

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Summary Discover the art of sake. An age-old staple of Japanese culture and cuisine, the fermented rice wine has recently been winning fans all over the world. Kampai! For the Love of Sake journeys from rice paddies in Japan to breweries around the globe as it chronicles three passionate exponents of the increasingly popular beverage: a British ...

Directed By: Mirai Konishi

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60
Aug 18, 2016
[A] crisp if feather-light documentary.
By Andy Webster FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 18, 2016
Kampai! For the Love of Sake serves as an occasionally enlightening if long-winded primer that will prove best suited to connoisseurs.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 10, 2016
“Kampai!” is scattered and rudderless, though the film’s biggest letdown is that it barely whets your whistle for a taste of sake. It might have been made “for the love,” but by the end the movie has squandered it.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 18, 2016
Kampai! feels like a manic ensemble drama that should have been a tight three-man show.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 15, 2016
Mirai Konishi's documentary inevitably reveals itself to be an elaborate infomercial for Westerners.
By Wes Greene FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 25, 2016
Unfortunately, Kampai! For the Love of Sake is more cheerleading than informative, concentrating largely on personality profiles of three figures—two of them Westerners--obsessed with the Japanese rice wine.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Synca Creations, Wagamama Media
Release Date Aug 19, 2016
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline The exploration of the traditional, complex, and fascinating world of sake, often called Japanese rice wine, though the eyes of three unique outsiders who have devoted themselves to sake.
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