Pan Ho is a character in the James Bond film A View to a Kill, played by Papillon Soo Soo.

Papillon Soo Soo as Pan Ho.

Biography: Pan Ho along with Jenny Flex and May Day make up Zorin’s deadly trio and main henchmen. Pan Ho is first seen checking security for the visitors arriving in the château. She stops Bond’s Rolls-Royce and takes his invitation to read his name in a very thick Chinese accent.

Pan Ho: “Mistaaaaaa Saint Jon Smiiith?”
Bond: “Sinjin-Smythe, my dear”.

Pan Ho is later seen at the party, chatting alongside Jenny Flex with the other guests. When Sir Geoffrey Tibbett is getting the car washed and is about to telephone M, he is tailed by Jenny Flex and Pan Ho, providing a distraction so that May Day may strangle and murder him. While Bond is being knocked unconscious in the Rolls-Royce, she is also present.

When General Gogol comes to confront Max Zorin at the château and they insult Zorin. May Day strongarms the guard, Jenny Flex, Pan Ho, and Scarpine also come out pointing their guns at the KGB general who threaten Zorin about “No one ever leaving the KGB”.

In San Francisco at the City Hall scene where Zorin kills WG Howe, Pan Ho can be seen in the background making Molotov cocktails to burn the building down and especially Bond and Stacey Sutton in the elevator. Shortly after, she hands the explosive to Zorin to drop on the elevator, rushes out with the gas canisters, and can be seen looking at the destruction she’s caused.

In the mine, Pan Ho is seen patrolling the grounds, with Zorin when the bomb is being armed and when he’s trying to break into the mine shack. When Stacey and Bond are detected, she, May Day, and Flex chase after them and May Day separates the group. Zorin then decides to flood the fault much to Bob Conley’s protest and the film after the destruction ensues, cuts to Pan Ho and Jenny as they confront the oncoming floodwaters with a shriek. Pan Ho holds onto the ground for dear life but is swept away. Her dead body is not seen but it’s safe to assume she didn’t make it.

In the script Pan Ho gets all of Scarpine’s lines up to “No, those are the servant’s quarters”. She also, instead of Scarpine, when Bond is being knocked out and put into the Rolls-Royce, is the one who pats down Bond and knocks him out cold with the gun. In the script, she had a much bigger part than just her one liner.

See also:

• Bond girls
• Bond henchmen