Wasabi [DVD] [2003]

From writer/producer LUC BESSON -- the legendary action filmmaker behind such adrenaline-pumping classics as The Professional and The Fifth Element - comes this hilarious high-impact adventure starring JEAN RENO (Godzilla, Mission Impossible) as a burly French cop traveling to Japan to settle an old debt. With his old-school tactics and pit-bull disposition, detective Hubert Fiorentini (Reno) is all business. But his routine existence is disrupted when he learns the only woman he ever loved is dead. Summoned to Tokyo to settle her estate, he soon suspects her death was no accident. When he discovers that he is the her of her spirited teenaged daughter, things really get complicated. From .co.uk ----------- This high-energy Dirty Harry in Japan stars Jean Reno (The Professional) as a maverick Paris cop with sledgehammer fists and a short temper. Promoted to sudden herhood when he "inherits" a spunky Japanese daughter (Ryoko Hirosue) he never knew, he becomes her droopy guardian angel, protecting her from an army of yakuza gangsters. Written and produced by Luc Besson, the former fashionista director of Euro-sleek shoot-'em-ups, this colorful B-movie blast is as gritty as an oil slick on a water slide but packed with explosive action. Director Gerard Krawczyk punctuates his fights with the Hong Kong school of recoil (bullets blast victims across the screen) and an undercurrent of humor. As long as you don't lean too hard on such niggling details as logic, legality, and the laws of physics, this silly, splashy, family bonding bulletfest is a spirited good time. P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); From the Back Cover ------------------- From writer/producer Luc Besson – the legendary action filmmaker behind such adrenalin-pumping classics as Leon and The Fifth Element - comes this hilarious high-impact adventure starring Jean Reno (Leon, Mission Impossible) as a burly French cop travelling to Japan to settle an old debt. With his old-school tactics and pit-bull disposition, detective Hubert Fiorentini (Reno) is all business. But his routine existence is disrupted when he learns that the only woman he ever loved is dead. Summoned to Tokyo to settle her estate, he soon suspects that her death was no accident. When he discovers that he is the her of her spirited teenage daughter, things get really complicated! See more ( javascript:void(0) )

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