2001 · drama · action · comedy
Wasabi
Directed by Gérard Krawczyk1h 34m2001
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.
Our read: Wasabi (2001) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded drama · action · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured drama / action, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- kinetic
- tender
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