The film will be realized by Gerard Krawczyk (the excellent director of "Taxi 2"), written and produced by Luc Besson via the production company EUROPA and also coproduced and interpreted by Jean Reno. Japanese investors joined the project. Shooting began in Paris et follows in Japan, in Tokyo and Kyoto, at the Imperial Hotel, Takashimaya in Yokohama , and Casio...
The film will be turned in French language, but english language isn't excluded! The young japanese star Ryoko Hirosue and Michel Muller (funny columnist on the channel Canal +) will also be in the casting. The film tells the story of Hubert (Jean Reno), a french cop dangerous and solitary. He hears of the death of his ex-wife, japanese, named Miko, who he met 19 years ago. He returns in Japan and will be involved in a crime. He'll meet a mysterious young girl, Yumi (Ryoko Hirosue) and acts with her in his investigation. But he doesn't know that Yumi is his daughter (and the daughter of Miko). She's born 19 years ago, after the leaving of Hubert...
"Wasabi" is an action comedy.

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