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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 and wire work was in the hotel scene where Jet Li roundhouse kicked a snooker ball at the chauffer's head. The director even claims to have had to slow a scene down as the combatants were moving too fast for the camera. Image File history File links Promotional poster for Kiss of the Dragon This is a copyrighted poster. ...
Luc Besson [IPA: lyk bɛsɔ̃] (born March 18, 1959) is a French film director, writer and producer. ...
Jet Li (born Li Lianjie on April 26, 1963 in Beijing, China) is a Chinese martial artist, actor, Wushu champion, and international film star. ...
Luc Besson [IPA: lyk bɛsɔ̃] (born March 18, 1959) is a French film director, writer and producer. ...
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Jet Li (born Li Lianjie on April 26, 1963 in Beijing, China) is a Chinese martial artist, actor, Wushu champion, and international film star. ...
Bridget Jane Fonda (born January 27, 1964) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-award nominated American actress. ...
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Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ...
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Thriller films are movies that primarily use action and suspense to engage the audience. ...
The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...
Jet Li (born Li Lianjie on April 26, 1963 in Beijing, China) is a Chinese martial artist, actor, Wushu champion, and international film star. ...
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Plot Liu 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. This article is about the capital of France. ...
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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 Liu's innocence, but Richard anticipates this and kidnaps Jessica's young daughter. With no other choice, Liu launches a counterattack on his pursuers, and combats them in an attempt to clear his name. Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically manual stimulation, oral sex, sexual intercourse, or anal sex) for cash or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. ...
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 Liu's words, "from your nose, from your ears, even from your eyes" before dying painfully. Acupuncture chart from Hua Shou (fl. ...
This method of killing, delivering a needle into the back of the head to cause paralysis and death (though without the haemorrhage), featured in the climactic scene of the 1970s science fiction novel "The Face", by Jack Vance. In this novel, however, the needle bore a poison which did the work. John Holbrook Vance (born August 28, 1916 in San Francisco, California) is generally described as an American fantasy and science fiction author, though Vance himself has reportedly objected to such labels. ...
Tagline: Kiss Fear Goodbye.
Cast Jet Li (born Li Lianjie on April 26, 1963 in Beijing, China) is a Chinese martial artist, actor, Wushu champion, and international film star. ...
Bridget Jane Fonda (born January 27, 1964) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-award nominated American actress. ...
Tchéky Karyo as Dmitri Mishkin in the James Bond film Goldeneye. ...
Burt Kwouk (Chinese: éƒå¼¼; pinyin: GuÅ Bì) (born July 18, 1930), is an actor who was born in Manchester, England because my mother happened to be there but was raised in Shanghai between the ages of ten months and seventeen years. ...
Cyril Raffaelli (born 1 April 1974) is a martial artist and stuntman from France. ...
John Forgeham (born 1941) is a British actor. ...
Kentaro Sato , born 1981-05-12) is a Los Angeles-based composer/conductor/clinician of media music (Film/TV/Game) and concert music (Symphonic and Choral). ...
Box Office Kiss of the Dragon opened at 2,025 North American theatres on July 6, 2001 to an opening weekend gross of US $13,304,027 ($6,569 per screen). It went on to a total North American gross of US $36,845,124.
Its total worldwide box office gross is US $64,437,847.
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