The Gokaido Reader’s Club in partnership with The Documentary Channel presents a Day in the Life of Kikunoi Honten, a world-renowned 3-Michelin Star kaiseki restaurant that has served traditional Japanese cuisine for over 100 years. In this context kaiseki means a highly structured sequence of small, artfully presented dishes highlighting fresh, seasonal ingredients.​ In this film the food is clearly wonderful but the film is not about food. It is a window into a culture, a discourse on a philosophy, it is about a physical and aesthetic discipline no less rigorous than bushido . It is a guide- book to a fugitive and hidden world. A world of great interest to those who read modern Japanese literature.
The film is made by Alvin Zhou details can be found in the text accompanying the film.

Joe Tibbetts 2026