Nobu | Trailer 1 - video Dailymotion

An intimate portrait of culinary legend Nobuyuki Matsuhisas empire and how he redefined global gastronomy.

Transcript

00:01If you would ask people today who is the emperor of Japan,

00:06they won't know his name.

00:08But everybody knows Nobu.

00:12There are a handful of people who have changed the way the world eats.

00:17Nobu. Nobu. Nobu. Nobu. Nobu. Nobu.

00:19The greatest ever Nobu.

00:26All the famous restaurants closing, closing, closing.

00:29Then I opened this one.

00:31He had an interview in Famous Magazine.

00:34And Robert De Niro approached him and said,

00:36This food was so special.

00:38I told Nobu, if you want to open a restaurant in New York, let me know.

00:43Nobu expanded globally.

00:45London.

00:46Tokyo.

00:47Dubai.

00:48All over the world.

00:49He's serving the most famous people on the planet.

00:53His restaurants are always booked, often months in advance.

00:56We had 300 people on the waiting list every day.

01:01But in the beginning, people did not believe he would stay in business.

01:07It was not a huge success at first.

01:09I have no money, but I was very happy.

01:15It was really difficult, but I finally made my own business.

01:23Then my partner called me.

01:25Nobu, come to the restaurant.

01:27Fire.

01:28Fire.

01:33He really hit the lowest of the low.

01:37At that time, my dreams were destroyed.

01:42If it weren't for my mother, it would have been unbearable for them.

01:45Yoko, she saved my life.

01:48In the 80s, I remember sushi being, oh, he made sushi chic,

01:53and he made it the thing that everybody wanted to eat.

01:55We're gonna have our 30-year anniversary.

01:57It's not about fees. We're talking bigger picture.

02:05Nobu created his own world.

02:08I said, oh, my God.

02:10Comes up with an idea like this.

02:15The heart of it is Nobu.

02:17If that wasn't there, we wouldn't have any of this.