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| “ | O'Hara's treachery has disgraced us. | „ |
| ~ Han. |
| “ | Man, you come right out of a comic book. | „ |
| ~ Williams describing Han's evident villainy. |
Han is the main antagonist of the 1973 Bruce Lee martial arts action film Enter the Dragon.
He is a powerful and ruthless drug lord who runs a heroin cooking business and sex trafficking ring from a secluded island. He additionally runs a martial arts tournament every three months to recruit more muscle for his criminal empire. He also lost a hand, though how he lost it is never explained. He keeps the bones of the severed hand on display in a museum of torture and weapons. In place of the missing hand he has a variety of weapon hands to use like an iron hand, claw hand and a bladed hand. He is also an expert in martial arts.
He was portrayed by the late Shih Kien and dubbed over by the late Keye Luke.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Han is a powerful drug kingpin who uses his private island and tournament as a front to manufacture and sell heroin. To test the quality of his heroin, he experiments on several captive girls by drugging them repeatedly with newly made samples of heroin, shattering their minds and leaving them in poor condition. He also systematically gets his own prostitutes addicted to his product so they remain dependent and subservient to him, often to the point where they aren't fully aware their surroundings, wildly giggling at anything (including a brutal murder that happens before their eyes). One of Han's girls, Mary King, dies from a heroin overdose because of this.
- He secretly runs an international sex trafficking ring, kidnapping young attractive women from different countries, inducting them into prostitution to serve them up to his guests, and eventually summoning them to his palace where they "disappear". The reason behind their disappearances is because of Han selling them off to an "elite clientele" as sex slaves. Han is also shown to hide a harem of drugged girls in a room behind his office, getting them addicted to heroin in preparation for trading them off to the highest bidders.
- He is indirectly responsible for the death of Lee's sister Su Lin after he presumably sent O'Hara to acquire young women, resulting in Su Lin killing herself during a botched kidnapping attempt.
- Han openly disregards the lives of his own men, ordering Bolo to publicly execute four guards solely for their failure to apprehend an intruder (Lee). Bolo slowly kills the guards by snapping their necks or spines while Han callously watches on. Han even smacks one of his own mooks across the face with his metal hand for his failure to defeat Williams.
- He tortures Williams to death by viciously bludgeoning him with his metal hand solely due to suspecting him of being the one trying to infiltrate his drug operation, regardless of his level of guilt. While trying to sway Williams' long time friend Roper to his side, Han cruelly presents him with Williams' mutilated corpse and drops the body in acid, implicitly threatening Roper that he will face the same fate if he refuses to join him.
- He has kidnapped and imprisoned dozens of vagrant martial artists in his underground factory in what appears to be over the course of several years.
- After capturing Lee, Han tries to pit him against Roper in a fight to the death. When Roper refuses to fight his mutual ally, Han gleefully pits him against Bolo instead in an attempt to painfully kill him.
- Although he is serious about hosting his tournament and appears to have standards due to condemning O'Hara for his "treachery" in combat, Han himself is proven to be an incredibly dishonorable individual:
- A disgraced Shaolin monk, Han perverts his own master's teachings for his own benefit (e.g. wealth, power, luxury, using people as tools and killing those who stand in his way).
- He is totally apathetic to the injuries and deaths that occur on his tournament's grounds, brushing off Williams' apparent disgust towards Bolo's brutal spectacle with a simple "Are you shocked, Mr. Williams?"
- In secret, he only sees the tournament as a front to recruit capable fighters into his criminal enterprise. As soon as he is inconvenienced by Lee and Roper, he violates all of the tournament's rules on a whim by sending all of his mooks after Lee and Roper in a desperate, furious attempt to kill them.
- He fights dirty in his duels against Williams and Lee: with Williams, he uses his concealed metal hand against Williams to tip the fight in his favor, beating him down and bludgeoning him to death when he can no longer stand up; with Lee, he utilizes several deadly weapons against Lee and is proven to be a coward of the highest order, repeatedly fleeing when he feels the pressure and resorts to hit-and-run tactics in the hall of mirrors to gain the upper hand on Lee solely because of Lee outmatching Han's skills in one-on-one combat.
- While Han does act very polite and cultured for much of his screen time, his friendly demeanor is entirely superficial. He warmly welcomes the guests of his island out of good publicity; laces his politeness with implicit threats during a few conversations; acts polite to Roper as a way to induct him into his organization while harshly testing his morality; and drops all pretenses of civility when Lee, Roper and Williams inevitably turn against him.
- Han claims that his female bodyguards are his daughters, but there is no indication he has genuine care for them.
External Links[]
- Han on the Villains Wiki.
