View source for Kiss of the Dragon (2001)

A cop from Beijing runs afoul of a corrupt inspector in Paris.


== Genre ==
[[Action]]

[[Martial Arts]]

== Characters/Groups ==

[[Liu Jian]] - [[Jet Li]]

[[Jessica]] - [[Bridget Fonda]]

[[Richard Kiss of the Dragon|Richard]] - [[Tcheky Kariyo]]

[[Mister Big]] - [[Ric Young]]

[[Uncle Tai]] - [[Burt Kwouk]]

[[Aja]] - [[Laurence Ashley]]

[[Twins]] - [[Cyril Raffaelli]] and [[Didier Azoulay]]

[[Max]] - [[John Forgeham]]

[[Pilot Kiss of the Dragon|Pilot]] - [[Paul Barrett]]

[[Lupo]] - [[Max Ryan]]

[[Lupo's Assistant]] - [[Colin Prince]]

[[Pluto]] - [[Vincent Glo]]

[[Minister Tang]] - [[Vincent Wong]]

[[Chen]] - [[Kentaro]]

[[Richard's Right Hand Man]] - [[Stephane Jacquot]]

[[Tang's Assistants]] - [[Stefan Sao Nelet]] and [[Peter Lee]]

[[Isabel]] - [[Isabelle Duhauvelle]]

[[Bodysearch Boss]] - [[Yannick Derrien]]

[[Red Hair Hooker]] - [[Francesca Disca]]

[[Fat Hooker]] - [[Taira]]

[[French Minister]] - [[David Gabison]]

[[Customs Official]] - [[Bertrand Waintrop]]

[[Video Technicians]] - [[Alain Zef]] and [[Nicolas Herault]]

[[Fat Thug]] - [[Jean-Marc Huber]]

[[Thugs]] - [[Frank Tiozzo]] and [[John Maczko]]

[[Concierge]] - [[Claude Brecourt]]

[[Barman]] - [[Jean-Georges Vongerichten]]

[[Chinese Bodyguard]] - [[Francois Nguyen]]

[[Subway Agent]] - [[Jocelyne Isaac]]

[[Fat Chinese Chef Wong]] - [[Raymond Khamvene]]

[[Taxi Driver (Rasta)]] - [[Urfe Koupaki]]

[[Hotel Clerk]] - [[Gregory Galin]]

[[Driver Place de la Concorde]] - [[Alexander Koumpan]]

[[Taxi Driver]] - [[Daniel Milgram]]

[[Coroners]] - [[Bernard Flavien]] and [[Eric Averlant]]

[[Assistant Coroner]] - [[Marc Ligaudan]]

[[Cop (Sentry Box)]] - [[Frederic Moulin]]

[[Cop (Station)]] - [[Alain de Catuelan]]

[[Cop (Lift)]] - [[Ludovic Berthillot]]

[[Newspaper Man]] - [[Guillaume Lamant]]

[[Hookers]] - [[Lina Chen]], [[Barbara Bernard]], [[Pat Tourne]], [[Crystalle Seeram]], [[Karen Drotard]], [[Sabine Ben Rhadi]], [[Saadi Spera]], [[Stephanie Martin]], [[Stephanie Durand]], [[Carmelle Edma]], and [[Schana Reaux]]

== Character thumbnails with links to profiles ==
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== Detailed Synopsis ==

In Paris, [[Customs Official]] inspects [[Liu Jian]]'s passport and asks for his purpose in France.  Liu Jian then gets into the taxi of [[Taxi Driver (Rasta)]] who drops him off at [[Uncle Tai]]'s restaurant.  Liu Jian walks by a group of [[Hookers]] on his way to the restaurant who proposition him.  Liu Jian enters the restaurant and he and Uncle Tai greet each other.  Liu Jen then arrives at a hotel where he checks in with [[Concierge]] and asks for any messages for Mr. Smith.  Liu Jian is told in a message to go to the lobby bar and as he walks there he is watched by [[Newspaper Man]].  He arrives at the bar where the [[Barman]] asks if wants anything.  While waiting at the bar, he meets [[Pilot Kiss of the Dragon|Pilot]] who tells him to go to the men's restroom where he is searched and told by [[Bodysearch Boss]] that his boss is looking forward to meeting him.  Liu Jian then follows Bodysearch Boss into the kitchen and sees [[Richard Kiss of the Dragon|Richard]] and the [[Twins]] beating a Chinese man.  Richard takes Liu Jian's gun and tells Liu Jian that he doesn't want to continuously butcher his name and so he will just call him John.  [[Mister Big]] walks into the hotel with his two bodyguards as Richard, Liu Jian, the Twins and [[Video Technicians]] watch on closed circuit television.  [[Jessica]] and [[Aja]] walk into the hotel and are told by [[Max]] never to keep him waiting again.  Jessica and Aja are introduced to Mister Big and they go into his room and Mister Big tells [[Chinese Bodyguard]] and the others to leave him with Jessica and Aja.  Aja stabs Mr. Big in the chest and Liu Jian runs to the room knocking out Chinese Bodyguard on his way in.  He tackles Aja and immobilizes her with a needle from his wrist band and Mister Big tells him he is dying.  Richard walks into the room and tells the Video Technicians to stop recording then shoots Mister Big and Aja with Liu Jian's gun.  

Liu Jian escapes out of the room and Richard and this [[Thugs]] search for him.  He makes it to the video recording room and takes the recording of Richard shooting Mister Big.  Liu Jian escapes into the laundry chute, but is then trapped.  Richard kills [[Hotel Clerk]] when he hesitates going after Liu Jian.  Richard then orders Newspaper Man to go after Liu Jian and Liu Jian kicks Newspaper Man down the chute.  He drops down the chute when Richard throws up a grenade and tosses it into [[Fat Thug]]'s shirt and Fat Thug is killed.  Liu Jian continues into the lobby and kills Pilot by kicking a pool ball into his forehead.  Liu Jian then escapes and Richard orders Paris searched and Liu Jian found.  Liu Jian then hitches a ride at the bottom of [[Driver Place de la Concorde]]'s, vehicle.  He goes to the subway where a [[Subway Agent]] tells him what direction to go to get to a locker number he shows her.  He opens one locker and retrieves a phone, but is forced to run away when the second locker is seen to be full of weapons by two policemen including [[Cop (Station)]], which he is forced to immobilize with his wrist needles.  A [[French Minister]] holds a meeting between Richard, [[Minister Tang]], [[Chen]] and [[Tang's Assistants]].  Richard asks about Liu Jian and Chen tells him that Liu Jian is their best inspector.  After the Chinese delegation leaves, Richard tells [[Richard's Right Hand Man]] to follow the Chinese delegation and tap their phones.  Liu Jian then goes back to Uncle Tai's restaurant.

Jessica visits Richard and reminds him that he promised if she did one more thing for him he would get the papers so she could leave with [[Isabel]], but Richard and Max just inject her with heroin.  Max then drops Jessica back on the streets to work for [[Lupo]].  [[Fat Hooker]] throws Jessica to the ground for stealing her spot and Jessica breaks her nose and is beaten by Lupo as Liu Jian watches.  Uncle Tai then leaves to make deliveries.  Liu Jian lets Jessica use the restroom when she threatens to pee in front of the store.  [[Fat Chinese Chef Wong]] comes for his order and Liu Jian hurries him out and then Jessica out.  Chen calls Liu Jian and they meet and Liu Jian tells Chen that Richard is the drug connection.  As they are planning on getting Liu Jian out of the country, Chen is shot dead and Liu Jian is forced to escape.  Chen's body is shown to Richard by a [[Coroners]] and after retrieving the tape with the recording, Richard steals some money from Chen's wallet and tells Richard's Right Hand Man to buy a wreath and hands him the money he stole from Chen's wallet.  Liu Jian goes back to Uncle Tai's restaurant and Uncle Tai tells him four out of five agents that have been sent to Paris have died eventually.  Lupo catches Jessica and Liu Jian talking and demands that Liu Jian pay him for her time after Liu Jian asks him not to hit Jessica again.  After Lupo hits Jessica again, Liu Jian proceeds to beat up Lupo, and [[Lupo's Assistant]].  [[Red Hair Hooker]] then calls Max.  Uncle Tai arrives back at the restaurant and is shot and killed by Max who is then killed when Liu Jian sticks a pair of chop sticks through Max' throat.  

As Liu Jian and Jessica are talking, he finds out that she was the other hooker when Mister Big was killed and he promises that if she helps him he will protect her and get Isabel.  Jessica goes to Richard's office and tells him Liu Jian forced her to come with him.  Richard then leaves with the Twins after handcuffing Jessica.  She convinces the guard to get her a sandwich and then steals back the tape with the recording and brings it to Liu Jian while also stealing Richard's turtle.  They then take a [[Taxi Driver|Taxi]] to the orphanage where Isabel is being kept.  They go to the bed where Isabel should be, but are ambushed by Richard's men.  They escape but Jessica is shot.  Liu Jian takes Jessica to the hospital and when she wakes up she tells Liu Jian that she trusted him to take care of Isabel and her.  Liu Jian then calls Richard and tells him he gave the cassette to his government and he is coming to get Isabel.  Liu Jian walks under the police entry bar and knocks out the [[Cop (Sentry Box)]].  He then proceeds to beat up the French police one by one, including a class training in martial arts and [[Cop (Lift)]].  He then kills both of the Twins before entering Richard's office.  Richard shoots Liu Jian, but Liu Jian manages to stick a wrist needle in Richard's neck.  Liu Jian and Isabel then leave as Richard starts bleeding from his eyes, nose and mouth due to the Kiss of the Dragon.  Liu Jian removes the needle from Jessica's neck and she wakes up to Isabel sleeping next to her.