Wasabi (film)
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Wasabi is a 2001 movie directed by Gérard Krawczyk, written and produced by Luc Besson and starring Jean Reno and Ryoko Hirosue. In France it was released as Wasabi, la petite moutarde qui monte au nez ("Wasabi, the little mustard that gets right up your nose").
Tagline: Quite possibly the greatest French-Language, English-Subtitled, Japanese Action-Comedy of all time.
Plot summary
The opening scene is in a dance club, where an apparent "female" is dancing much to the enjoyment of the people around. Hubert Fiorentini enters the scene by slugging the dancer nearly 6 feet into other people, on the way out of the dance club he punches people left and right who hinders the job completion, which unfortunately is the Chief's son, and various other people.
Hubert Fiorentini (Reno) is a French policeman and former intelligence operative; who undertakes his objectives in vicious and unorthodox methods, but however gets the job done; who has been unable to forget his true love, Miko, a Japanese spy he met 19 years prior. When she dies suddenly, her lawyer Ishibashi (Hirata Haruhiko) summons Hubert to Japan for the reading of her will.
Ishibashi informs him he has inherited the guardianship of Yumi; a fiery, incredibly cute and eccentric Japanese/French teenage girl, Miko's daughter, until she reaches the age of adulthood in two days (the age of adulthood in Japan is 20, not 18). Yumi hates her unknown father, whom she believes raped and abandoned her mother; Hubert realizes Yumi is his daughter but doesn't tell for fear of her hatred.
Hubert soon discovers that Miko was the victim of foul play after ripping off the yakuza for a small fortune, which Yumi has now inherited. With the help of Momo (Muller), a former intelligence colleague, he must protect her from the unofficial collection agency while at the same time trying to establish his long severed father-daughter bond in the three days before she turns twenty and sends him packing.
Cast
- Jean Reno - Hubert Fiorentini
- Ryoko Hirosue - Yoshimido Yumi
- Michel Muller - Maurice 'Momo'
- Carole Bouquet - Sofia
- Ludovic Berthillot - Jean-Baptiste #1
- Yan Epstein - Jean-Baptiste #2
- Michel Scourneau - Van Eyck
- Christian Sinniger - Squale
- Jean-Marc Montalto - Olivier
- Alexandre Brik - Irène
- Fabio Zenoni - Josy
- Véronique Balme - Betty
- Jacques Bondoux - Del Rio
- Yoshi Oida - Takanawa
- Haruhiko Hirata - Ishibashi
Filming locations
Filming locations include:- Kiyomizu-dera, in Kyoto, Japan
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