Amazon.co.uk Review
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 fatherhood 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 gunfights 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.
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DVD Technical Information:
- Languages: English, French
- Subtitles: Danish, English, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish
- Aspect Ratio: 1:2.35 Anamorphic Widescreen
- Colour
- PAL
- Region Code: 2
- Running time: 90 mins approx.
Synopsis
Hubert (Jean Reno) is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss who doesn't share his views on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his former girlfriend who disappeared without notice. There he meets his former collegue, Momo ( Michel Muller), and his daughter, Yumi (Ryoko Hirosue), whose existence he had ignored, to settle a few "problems" by using his "skills".
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, police 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 father of her spirited teenage daughter, things get really complicated!
