American Dragons
American Dragons (also known as Double Edge) is a 1998 action crime thriller film directed by Ralph Hemecker and starring Michael Biehn, Park Joong-hoon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Don Stark and Byron Mann. It was written by Erik Saltzgaber and Keith W. Strandberg and produced by Brad Krevoy.
Plot
Detective Tony Luca is sent on a homicide investigation of a Yakuza leader after a bungled undercover sting to capture notorious gangster Rocco. After finding a folded origami lotus with the black lotus insignia Tony is assigned a partner, Detective Kim from Seoul, South Korea. Kim is described by Luca's captain as an expert on the league of ninja assassins known as the Black Lotus Society. Both Yakuza and Mafia gangsters are being assassinated all over town by the mysterious assassin known to Kim as "Shadow".
More details
| author | Erik Saltzgaber Keith W. Strandberg |
|---|---|
| director | Ralph Hemecker |
| editor | Alan L. Shefland |
| genre | action crime thriller |
| keywords | assassin fight homicide investigation kill ninja origami seoul south korea |
| musicBy | Joel Goldsmith |
| producer | Brad Krevoy |
| productionCompany | Motion Picture Corporation of America Orion Pictures |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| theme | japanese mafia yakuza |