The film Wasabi, directed by Gérard Krawczyk, stars Jean Reno as Hubert Fiorentini, a grumpy and surly curator, alongside Ryōko Hirosue (Yumi) and Michel Muller (Momo). The screenplay by Luc Besson takes us from Paris to Tokyo, in the footsteps of a latent past, an unexpected heritage and a network that does not joke.

The light glides between the neon lights of Tokyo and the shadows of Paris, while the texture of the screen becomes raw, sometimes grainy, sometimes smooth like a curtain of rain on windows. The rhythm alternates tension and breathing, the colors changing from a glacier blue to a warm-spice red, like a wasabi rising in the nose. The calibration plays finely on contrasts: the reds are deep, the skins slightly golden, the Japanese-like backgrounds slightly desaturated to better let the characters vibrate.

image post-production, reveals every nuance of the cold metal of an aircraft with Yumi’s incandescent gaze thanks to a know-how combining technical rigor and cinematographic sensitivity