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Wasabi, one of the latest products of Luc Besson sector. However anti-American movie fans have raised their `Yankee Go Home' banners; to my mind this comedy - action film which is harmonized with French - Japon sensibilities, can be an alternative film to American movies.

Luc Besson - Jean Reno cooperation is going on. Leading character Hubert is a puncher policeman just like in American movies, ignoring legal details, fighting against the bad people. Again just like in American movies, Hubert has a chief who is complaining and shouting all the times; at the other hand he likes Hubert. Love book of Hubert is empty for 19 years, after a Japon woman has broken his heart and left him with memories, meal descriptions and a beautiful pen. Hubert has closed his love book and has focused on crime world. Then he learns that his Japan woman has died and has left him an inheritance: a daughter. Time for a Japan voyage.

Just focusing on the story, it is easy to think that this film doesn't have any difference from American ones. But this film isn't an American popcorn movie; it is a French / Japan popcorn movie.

There are enough big guns, rocket launchers, bombs; but the action scenes is not in American style, Hubert generally finishes his work quickly with one punch. In American movies the bullets let people fly backward for 2 meters; Hubert can fly people for 5 meters. :)

Sense of humor which is full of small coincidences and comic events is extremely French. Lets turn to the Japan side of the film: there are many Japan people. :) The beautiful girl of the film is Hubert's Japan daughter Yumi. I find her very cute with her teenage gestures and phone talks beginning with `mochie, mochie'.

By this film, I've surprised that there are many Japan including policemen and mobsters speaking French very well.

If you want to watch a French (and a little Japan) comedy - action movie similar with American ones (but not in American style), I'll advice you this film. At most you will lose time. :)

Firstly, the film's name is `Üçüncü Sayfa' (not Ücgunzü Sayfa), means `third page', signifies `new start in life'. Zeki Demirkubuz is an independent director, and this film is directed and produced by him. This film is the story of people who has no leading role in life, people whose stories we don't usually want to know or listen, people who can't burst out laughing, people who is on the thin line separating life and death; and they are hesitant to have any hope neither from life nor death . This film is an honest film, which has no anxiety of neither rating nor money. There is no showy adventures or nothing which doesn't exist in ordinary life. Some of the scenes have Dostoyewsky's feeling of guilty analyzes. Some scenes tell about the backstage of Turkish movie. The real reason which makes me content, the scenes which are about the little worlds of little people. Zeki Demirkubuz is walking in the way he knows, and I'm very hopeful about Turkish (European) movie.