Dragon

Synopsis: A papermaker gets involved with a murder case concerning two criminals leading to a determined detective suspecting him and the former's vicious father searching for him
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Peter Ho-Sun Chan
Production: Radius/The Weinstein Co.
  11 wins & 17 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
62
Rotten Tomatoes:
85%
R
Year:
2011
98 min
$11,137
Website
143 Views


Xiaotian

Don't be afraid

It'll be over quickly

I'll pull on three

One

Where's the tooth?

Xiaotian, you tricked me!

I want to keep my tooth

Hull

You tricked me!

I'll get you

Father

What is it, son?

My tooth hurts

Your tooth hurts

Let me have a look

Which one hurts?

Open wider.

This one?

Show me

Zhigen's wife visited the paper mill yesterday

to chastise the people who didn't go

to the celebration for her newborn

I was busy with an order

so I ran

Really?

Judging from her body, she's pregnant again

She is?

Mother

When will you have another child?

Why do you ask?

He talks too much

Let's replace him

No

Yes, we will

No

Yes

No

Jinxi

Would you like some

five spice stew

That's alright

I already ate

Oh, that's right

I almost forgot, you're a vegetarian

This village has prospered

since the paper mill opened

More and more visitors come here to buy paper

Welcome, gentlemen

You sell wine?

You're lucky

We make our own wine, "Thousand Springs"

It may be rustic

But it is as good as old wine

Give me four pints

Yes sir.

Wait!

Give me eight

Eight pints of "Thousand Springs"

Are you martial artists?

On your way to the county town?

I must tell you

A few months ago

a father and daughter duo of your trade

passed through here

They sold me some "Mighty Pills"

I can attest that

they were very potent!

Sir, your wine

This wine

is also called "Fragrant Bottle"

or "Drop at the Door"

It tastes horrible

Waiter

Does this village have a general store?

Yes

It's across that way

We're here for money

Are you here to buy paper?

We're here for money

Do you have a letter of credit?

We're here

for the money

Understood?

Where's the money?

Where's the money?

You out me, idiot

Help

Father!

Father!

Father!

Father!

Father!

Father!

Father, are you alright?

Toes, no fatal wound

Chest, no fatal wound

Lower back, no fatal wound

Genitals, no fatal wound

Shoulders, no fatal wound

Fangzheng!

Watch your child ren

Knees, no fatal wound

Palms, no fatal wound

Soles, no fatal wound

These herbs will kill the smell

Ankles, no fatal wound

insteps, no fatal wound

"Robbery convict - Yan Dongsheng"

Your honor

Your honor

Xu, you seem flustered

What's the matter?

I discovered that

one of the dead men

is the top ten wanted criminal

Yan Dongsheng

Your honor must remember

Yan was the mastermind

behind countless heinous crimes

We brought him to justice

After being held for three days

he overpowered us

and escaped

You're saying that this Liu Jinxi

accidentally captured Yan Dongsheng?

Yes

Not only captured

but killed the criminal

Yes

It means the case was solved

in "My" jurisdiction

Good. Excellent!

Make arrangements for me to meet this hero

Not only meet

but also thank him on behalf of the people

and the county government

Let's go

Who is Liu Jinxi?

Here, sir. Coming

Countryman

We've solved the case

The dead man is

Yan Dongsheng

He's the notorious criminal

responsible for countless murders

Thanks to our hero

Liu Jinxi

Yan was brought to justice

This is a blessing

Jinxi wants to eat pears

To the market he hurries

here and there

Time to core and pare the pears

Quickly Jinxi, eat the pears

He fights the thief, and peels his skin

Ayu can't believe what she sees

Tonight she will reward Jinxi

Reward Jinxi

July 1917, the 11th fortnight

I was sent to Liu Village

Crime Scene:
General Store

People involved:
a paper maker, two fugitives

How could an unarmed paper maker

defeat a trained killer like Yan Dongsheng?

Do you know Liu Jinxi?

Everyone knows everyone in this village

Has he always lived here?

Well, no

No

He moved here when he married Ayu

he adopted the clan name, Liu

His real family name was Gong

Gong?

Fangzheng was only a few years old

When his father left

Ayu married Jinxi and gave birth to Xiaotian

I once asked Jinxi

Where are you from?

He said, Gong Village

He said he came from a family of butchers

Butchers?

Bloodshot eyes

indicate a brain hemorrhage

Yan received a heavy blow to the temple

below which the vagus

nerve serves a key function

it regulates the heartbeat

Traumatizing it can stop the heart

To damage the Vagus Nerve...

with a single blow to the temple

requires extraordinary skills

Only three fugitives killers are capable

of such a thing:

Fang Rishou

He was once a war hero

but was later discharged for violent behavior

Became a gambling addict

he squandered his fortune

He set fire to the gambling den

Dozens were killed

He vanished afterwards

Zhao Yiguang, also known as The Eye Collector

He ambushed the Tai Fen Convoy

The victims had their eyes gouged...

and tongues removed

It took them three days to die

Bu yuan

a psychopath famous for his knife skills

He slit his victims veins

and drained their blood

He even threw their heads

into boiling soup pots

One afternoon

he came to the tavern

Wine, please

Yes, sir

Sir, what are these?

What?

You don't know?

They're amulets

On the first day of spring

men wear them on the left arm

and women wear them on the right

to ward off ghosts

He claimed that

his village didn't practice the same ritual

His home village was in Lianzhou

It left a deep impression on me

Lianzhou

Lianzhou have amulets too

They do

I hope there's not a problem

Jinxi is a good man

Leave it

I don't like the smell of fish bladder

Mrs. Tung said there's a potion

I can take to prevent pregnancy

It's mercury; it's poison

It will harm your body

What if I get pregnant?

Then we'll have another baby

You

seem upset?

No, I was just thinking

about the two men that died

But they were bad men

Officials said they were going

to rob a supply convoy nearby

They were just passing through

So

Jinxi, you did good

The detective may be a bit eccentric

but he doesn't accept bribes

so he must be a good man

We should offer him a meal on the house

Men are just sacks of stinking fluids

with no redeeming qualities

A good man?

Good or bad, it's determined by our physiology

The Ren-ying meridian controls hunger

His Ren-ying appears to be overdeveloped

The short man was a born glutton

Give me four pints

Wait... Give me eight

Wine impaired his Qi,

A contributing factor to his cardiac arrest

He died because his Ren-ying

meridian betrayed him

As for me

my weakness is my Shanzhong meridian

It controls emotions and gives us empathy

My Shanzhong meridian is overdeveloped

It makes me too empathetic;

it almost cost me my life once

I caught a young man

who stole from his adoptive parents

But I send him home

I put humanity above the law

I never imagined that he would poison our food

Both his parents died

I sustained internal injuries

That's why I use two needles

one in the Shanzhong

to suppress my empathy

the other in the Tientu

to control the poison

I treat my body

and my personality flaws at the same time

Since then

"He" follows me around

He says:

you can't trust humanity

Only physiology and the law don't lie

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