December 22, 2014 — Shooting is now under way for the first documentary film about one of the world's largest fish markets, Tsukiji in central Tokyo, as producers aim to preserve on screen what they see as the epitome of Japanese food culture before the market's relocation.
Kazuha Okuda, a planner and producer of the film, said it will be significant not only as a record of the nearly 80-year-old market, earmarked for demolition after its relocation to the nearby Toyosu bayside area in 2016, but also to preserve the work of professional fish workers for future generations, both in Japan and abroad.