'Vietnam Rose' was the name of the deadly venereal disease contracted by the main character after a gang rape and it was also the intended original English title for the feature , but social activists complained about the negative connotation of that title against the ethnic Vietnamese community during a time of growing influx of war refugees to Hong Kong after the fall of Saigon. The lurid subject matter would become a metaphor for the politically charged issue of illegal immigration to the colony. The Production company released the movie with the English title 'The Kiss of Death'.