Jiro Ono, who is 85 years old, is considered by many to be the world’s greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of a 10-seat, sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. This film is a thoughtful and elegant meditation on work, family and the art of perfection, chronicling Ono’s life as both an unparalleled success in the culinary world and as a loving, yet complicated father.

This film’s facilitator is Sarah M. Strong, a professor of Japanese language and literature and a member of the Bates Asian studies faculty. She serves on the executive board of the Associated Kyoto Program and is literature editor for the Journal of Japanese Language and Literature. She is also a research associate at the Reischaurer Institute at Harvard University. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Japanese literature from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in history from Oberlin College.

All Film Forum events are free and open to adults. Popcorn, candy and soda available at 6 p.m. social; film starts at 6:15 p.m.

The L/A Film Forum is made possible by a grant from the Maine Humanities Council. Local co-sponsors of the series include the Lewiston Auburn Film Festival and the Auburn and Lewiston public libraries. For more information, call 207-513-3135 or email [email protected]. The library is at 200 Lisbon St.