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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wèi le for; for the purpose of; in order to HSK 3
shēng to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out HSK 3
wàng to hope; a hope; a wish HSK 3
to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned HSK 3
kāi shǐ to begin; beginning; to start; initial HSK 3
yào to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs HSK 3
shí o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period HSK 3
jiù shì exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if HSK 3
bèi quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) HSK 3
to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) HSK 3
- fēng (idiom) high-spirited; full of mettle Idiom ∼HSK 2
绿绿 huā huā brightly colored; gaudy Idiom ∼HSK 2
zhèng hǎo just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that Xiehouyu HSK 2
kāi xīn to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb Xiehouyu HSK 2
zāng bìng (coll.) venereal disease Colloquialism ∼HSK 2
gòu enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out Colloquialism HSK 2
to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels Colloquialism HSK 2
Yuè nán Vietnam Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
lán Holland; the Netherlands Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
Wài jiāo Ministry of Foreign Affairs; foreign office; Dept. of State Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
Nick (name) Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
jiē shì downtown area; commercial district; (chiefly Cantonese) wet market, i.e. a marketplace selling fresh meat, fish and vegetables etc Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
Shuǐ mén Shì jiàn Watergate scandal Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
Paris, capital of France Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
Xiāng gǎng rén Hong Kong person or people Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
Tài guó Thailand Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
Hóng shí Red Cross Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
jiànguò seen HSK 2
Yīng petal, flower, leaf; brave, a hero; England, English ∼HSK 2
jīn wǎn tonight ∼HSK 2
chē fáng garage; carport; (old) rickshaw room ∼HSK 2
hái zi girl ∼HSK 2
fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though ∼HSK 2
jiāng huì auxiliary verb introducing future action: may (be able to); will (cause); should (enable); going to ∼HSK 2
shì miàn the marketplace (i.e. the world of business and commerce) ∼HSK 2
jiā Acanthopanax gracilistylus ∼HSK 2
huí to retrieve ∼HSK 2
rest, put stop to, end, cease ∼HSK 2
Yán face, facial appearance ∼HSK 2
jiāo cuò to crisscross; to intertwine ∼HSK 2
biǎo older male cousin via female line ∼HSK 2
duō shí long time ∼HSK 2
Huá flowery; illustrious; Chinese ∼HSK 2
bǎi wàn million ∼HSK 2
lán basket ∼HSK 2
right conduct, righteousness ∼HSK 2
de hěn (after an adjective) very ∼HSK 2
chē tóu dēng (vehicle) headlight ∼HSK 2
kāi yǎn to open one's eyes; to widen one's horizons ∼HSK 2
nán hái zi boy ∼HSK 2