Food on Film
The Birth of Saké
Directors
Erik Shirai
Producers
Masako Tsumura
Cinematographers
Erik Shirai
Editors
Frederick Shanahan
Takeshi Fukunaga
Sound
Andrew Tracy
Calvin Pia
Laura Dopp
Official Film Website
Contact
Masako Tsumura
[email protected]
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2015
United States
94 min
Color
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. The Birth of Saké is a cinematic documentary that reveals the story of passionate saké-makers and what it takes to make world-class saké at Yoshida Brewery, a 144-year-old family-owned small brewery in northern Japan.
Erik Shirai worked on numerous documentaries and TV shows before launching the production company, Cebu Osani Creative, in 2008. The company’s focus is to combine fiction and non-fiction aesthetics to create compelling films. He is based in New York.
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