- "Sanchez is taking us to the heart of his operations. I've been setting it up for years! I just hope that little stunt of yours hasn't scared him off!"
- ― Kwang to James Bond
Kwang was a fictional Hong Kong Police Narcotics agent sent to infiltrate drug lord Franz Sanchez's operations in Isthmus. A major unwitting antagonist portrayed by American actor, producer and martial artist, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, the character first appeared in the 1989 James Bond film, Licence to Kill, and was also featured in John Gardner's accompanying novelization.
Biography[]
Disguised as an Asian drug lord, Kwang, like his partner Loti, is a Hong Kong narcotics agent who has spent years trying to infiltrate drug baron Franz Sanchez's operations. During a meeting at the Casino de Isthmus in the Republic of Isthmus, just as Sanchez finalizes a deal to monopolise the drug trade around the Pacific region with his new partners, Kwang insists on seeing Sanchez's operation up close as a gesture of good faith. The kingpin senses Kwang has other intentions, but doesn't intend to let the Hong Kong agent get wise even after offering to show the Asians his main distribution centre, with Kwang satisfied that he has deceived Sanchez.
When a vengeful James Bond tries to kill Sanchez, Loti and another ninja knock the spy unconscious. They take Bond to their safe house for questioning. Kwang furiously dresses down the rogue agent for jeopardising their entire effort. Fallon, their MI6 contact tries to sedate Bond, but Colonel Heller, Sanchez's chief of operations, attacks the house, killing the contact and the ninja. Kwang tells Loti to fight back so they don't take her alive, but she only manages to kill two soldiers before being easily shot by Heller. Kwang bites into a cyanide capsule, killing himself, rather than face Sanchez's wrath and Sanchez shoots his body in frustration.
Behind the Scenes[]
In 1985, in a script for a rejected Bond 15 story, the main villain was named General Kwang. In that script, Kwang was a arms smuggler and opium smuggler operating out in Golden Triangle. The character was revisited for Licence to Kill film, now being a Asian drug baron instead of a warlord. But the character was ultimately rewritten into Franz Sanchez, a South American drug baron.[1][2]
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References[]
- ↑ Field, Matthew (2015). Some kind of hero : 007 : the remarkable story of the James Bond films, Ajay Chowdhury. ISBN 978-0-7509-6421-0. OCLC 930556527.
- ↑ rogermoore (3 April 2017). Scripts Bond 16 : Risico et autres péripéties bondiennes (Français). Commander James Bond - CJB. Retrieved on 2022-05-28.