A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon

A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon 1989

3: yīng xióng běn yáng zhī

During the Vietnam War, Mark 'Gor' Lee heads to Saigon to bring home his uncle and cousin. However, the task gets dangerous when a well-known criminal tries to help him.

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3.97 Beginner Director Tsui Hark IMDb 5.9

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not to have; no; none; not; to lack; un-; -less HSK 4
zhī hòu after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then HSK 4
què but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though HSK 4
ér and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) HSK 4
huó lit. you die, I live (idiom); irreconcilable adversaries; two parties cannot coexist Idiom ∼HSK 3
luàn lái to act recklessly; to mess around Xiehouyu ∼HSK 3
sòng to throw away one's life Xiehouyu ∼HSK 3
tiáo (idiom) dead end; road to ruin Xiehouyu ∼HSK 3
shú rén acquaintance; friend Xiehouyu HSK 3
tòng pain; suffering; painful Xiehouyu HSK 3
qīn parent; one's own (flesh and blood); relative; related; marriage; bride; close; intimate; in person; first-hand; in favor of; pro-; to kiss; (Internet slang) dear Xiehouyu HSK 3
yào shi (coll.) if Colloquialism HSK 3
shū to lose; to be beaten; (bound form) to transport; (literary) to donate; to contribute; (coll.) to enter (a password) Colloquialism HSK 3
zhěng exactly; in good order; whole; complete; entire; in order; orderly; to repair; to mend; to renovate; (coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb Colloquialism HSK 3
guǎn to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards Colloquialism HSK 3
Jīn biān Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
Měi guó Guó huì US Congress Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
Xīng Monday Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
Ruì shì Switzerland Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
Jiǎn zhài Cambodia Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
Měi jūn US army; US armed forces Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
chéng to massacre everyone in a captured city Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
Mín people, subjects, citizens ∼HSK 3
shū uncle; father's younger brother; husband's younger brother; Taiwan pr. [shu2] ∼HSK 3
bāng nation, country, state ∼HSK 3
měi ge rén everybody; everyone ∼HSK 3
zhì purpose, will, determination; annals ∼HSK 3
yǒu bàn can find methods; resourceful; creative ∼HSK 3
no longer; not again ∼HSK 3
guāng yīn time available ∼HSK 3
dào shí hòu when the moment comes; at that time ∼HSK 3
xiàn shí current ∼HSK 3
to kill; to beat to death ∼HSK 3
bào guān to declare at customs ∼HSK 3
bào guǎn newspaper office ∼HSK 3
zhèng government, political affairs ∼HSK 3
kuài zhuǎn fast-forward ∼HSK 3
Ā Abba (Aramaic word father); by ext. God the Father in Christian gospel ∼HSK 3
lián lei to implicate; to get (sb) into trouble; also pr. [lian2lei3] or [lian2lei4] ∼HSK 3
线 guà xiàn to hang up the phone ∼HSK 3
xié to harmonize, to rhyme; to unite; (borrowed for) leaf ∼HSK 3
gǎn wéi to dare to do ∼HSK 3
wàn bān every kind; manifold; extremely ∼HSK 3
luàn huā to spend recklessly; to waste money ∼HSK 3
yǒu kòng to have time (to do sth) ∼HSK 3
yǐn chá to have tea and refreshments; to have dim sum lunch (Cantonese) ∼HSK 3
yǒu xīn to have a mind to; to intend to; deliberately; considerate ∼HSK 3
go to hell!; drop dead! ∼HSK 3
zhuāng to play dead ∼HSK 3
zhǐ zhèng to testify; to give evidence ∼HSK 3