Kiss of the Dragon movie

A betrayed intelligence officer enlists the aid of a prostitute to prove his innocence from a deadly conspiracy while returning a favor to her.

Kiss of the Dragon is a 2001 action/thriller film, directed by Chris Nahon and starring Jet Li. The film is notable because most of the action sequences were done with little use of CGI or wire work. The only use of CGI was in the hotel scene where Jet Li roundhouse kicked a snooker ball at the chauffers head. The director even claims to have had to slow a scene down as the combatants were moving too fast for the camera.PlotLiu Jian, a Chinese intelligence agent, is sent and assigned to Paris to help apprehend a Chinese gangster involved in heroin smuggling.

However, Liu is just a scapegoat for Jean-Pierre Richard, a corrupt and violent French police inspector who brutally kills the gangster; framing Liu for murder in the process.Liu keeps a low profile while trying to escape, and he meets up with Jessica, an American woman who was forced into prostitution by Richard. Jessica is able to prove Lius innocence, but Richard anticipates this and kidnaps Jessicas young daughter. With no other choice, Liu launches a counterattack on his pursuers, and combats them in an attempt to clear his name.The title "Kiss of the Dragon" is derived from one of the last scenes in the movie, in which Liu punctures Richard in the back of the neck with an acupuncture needle at a "very forbidden" certain point. The puncture itself is called "kiss of the dragon," and it paralyzes Richard and traps all the blood in his body in his head. This causes Richard to bleed, using Lius words, "from your nose, from your ears, even from your eyes" before dying painfully.Tagline: Kiss Fear Goodbye..

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Kiss of the Dragon Cast

• Bridget Fonda
• Burt Kwouk
• Colin Prince
• Cyril Raffaelli
• Didier Azoulay
• John Forgeham
• Kentaro
• Laurence Ashley
• Max Ryan
• Paul Barrett
• Ric Young
• Tchéky Karyo
• Vincent Glo
• Vincent Wong