Following a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since he was defeated by a Japanese chef's bowl of noodles as a young man.
Umami is a 2022 French-Japanese film starring Gérard Depardieu as a French chef who travels to Japan to find a rival chef who once defeated him in a prestigious competition. It was written and directed by French director Slony Sow and filmed during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Hokkaido, Japan and the Loire region in France after physical production was halted in France in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 lockdown.