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American Dragons is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Ralph Hemecker with Michael Biehn
American Dragons (1998)
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Add to a movie listAmerican Dragons (also known as Double Edge) is a 1998 action adventure film starring Michael Biehn, Park Joong-hoon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Don Stark and Byron Mann. It was directed by Ralph Hemecker, written by Erik Saltzgaber and Keith W. Strandberg, and produced by Brad Krevoy.
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Detective Tony Luca (Michael Biehn) is sent on a homicide investigation of a Yakuza leader after a bungled undercover sting to capture notorious gangster Rocco (Don Stark). After finding a folded origami lotus with the black lotus insignia Tony is assigned a partner, Detective Kim (Park Joong-hoon) from Seoul, South Korea. Kim is described by Luca's captain as an expert on the league of assassins known as the Black Lotus. Both Yakuza and Mafia gangsters are begin being assassinated all over town by the mysterious assassin known to Kim as Shadow.Actors
Michael Biehn
(Detective Tony Luca)
Park Joong-hoon
(Kim)
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
(Matsuyama)
Don Stark
(Rocco)
Byron Mann
(Shadow)
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