Wasabi(Movie, 2001)

Name: Wasabi
Genre: Drama, Action, Comedy
Released: 2001
Duration: T01:34:00
Rating: 3.3

| 1h 34min | Genres: Drama, Action, Comedy

Rating: 3.3/5 (with 541 votes)

Wasabi is a 2001 French action comedy film directed by Gérard Krawczyk and written and produced by Luc Besson. The film stars Jean Reno, Michel Muller and Ryōko 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"). The film gets its title from a scene where the protagonist, Hubert Fiorentini (Reno), eats a whole serving of wasabi at a Japanese restaurant without flinching. ()

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About Wasabi

Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace.

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Trailer for Wasabi + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Wasabi THEATRICAL Trailer(Trailer, 2:02)

Wasabi THEATRICAL Trailer (Trailer) | WASABI - Bande Annonce (Trailer, FR) | Wasabi - Trailer (deutsch/german) (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Production countries: France, Japan

Shot in: Paris, Japan

Plays in: Tokyo, Paris

Made by: Canal Plus, EuropaCorp, TF1 Films Productions, Tobis, Destiny, Samitose Productions

Original language: French (FR)

Spoken languages: French (FR), Japanese (JA)

Translated into 25 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 09/27/2002 (World premiere: 10/31/2001)

Cast: Jean Reno, Ryōko Hirosue, Michel Muller, Carole Bouquet, Yoshi Oida, Christian Sinniger, Fabio Zenoni, Ludovic Berthillot, Michel Scourneau, Élodie Frenck

Director: Gérard Krawczyk

Producer: Luc Besson

Screenwriter: Luc Besson

Composer: Éric Serra

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Wasabi: El trato sucio de la mafia"

"Wasabi - La Petite moutarde qui monte au nez"

Keywords: brutal cop, handcuffs, yakuza, love letter, golf club, hitman, police operation

Budget: 15,300,000 USD

Revenue: 10,366,360 USD (= 68%)

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