Jet-ting to Paris? Oui!

Intercontinental Films.

A Chinese detective (Jet Li) hooks up with an American hooker (Bridget Fonda) in a scene from "Kiss of the Dragon".

He was a star of the people's republic wushu team at 11, a star of the mainland hit The Shaolin Temple at 16. At 25 Li Lianjie came to Hong Kong, got the name Jet Li and brought a ferocious stateliness to such martial epics as Once Upon a Time in China and Fong Sai Yuk. At 35 he played in his first big U.S. film, Lethal Weapon 4, and showed Mel Gibson how real men fight: with stern grace and fatal feet. His debut as a Hollywood star, in Romeo Must Die, took in $100 million world- wide. He has...

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