Wasabi (2001)
When his former lover dies, a French policeman travels to Tokyo to take care of his estranged daughter. There he eventually finds out why his girlfriend left him and the reason becomes his and his new daughters problem.
10 November 1948, Tokyo, Japan
18 July 1980, Kochi, Japan
1983
24 April 1969, Roanne, Loire, France
2 July 1974, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
30 July 1948, Casablanca, French Protectorate of Morocco [now Morocco]
9 September 1966, Vienna, Austria
January 04, 2004
...as far as action flicks go, you could do worse.November 14, 2002
The film is a contrivance, as artificial as the video games Japanese teens play in a nightclub sequence, but it's an enjoyable one.October 04, 2002
Wasabi is slight fare indeed, with the entire project having the feel of something tossed off quickly (like one of Hubert's punches), but it should go down smoothly enough with popcorn.November 11, 2003
Action star (and fine dramatic actor) Jean Reno has fallen prey to the Action Comedy conceit and the result is the periodically entertaining, generally tiresome Wasabi.December 28, 2008
There's little tension as Reno's character is one of those invincible heroes that we haven't seen much of since the '80s.February 05, 2003
The movie fails to live up to the sum of its parts.October 20, 2002
Reno does what he can in a thankless situation, the film ricochets from humor to violence and back again, and Ryoko Hirosue makes us wonder if she is always like that.May 26, 2004
I keep renting Jean Reno films and I'm beginning to forget why I started doing so.October 15, 2003
A bubbly international cocktail.October 07, 2002
One scarcely needs the subtitles to enjoy this colorful action farce.November 09, 2003
A moronic action/comedy film.October 17, 2002
Like being trapped inside a huge video game, where exciting, inane images keep popping past your head and the same illogical things keep happening over and over again.