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.

HSK 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
3.97 Beginner Director Tsui Hark IMDb 5.9

Cast

Vocabulary

Filter the words you want to study before watching.

jiāng will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) HSK 5
(prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very HSK 5
bái bái (loanword) bye-bye; also pr. [bai1 bai1] etc; (coll.) to part ways (with sb); (fig.) to have nothing further to do (with sb or sth) Colloquialism ∼HSK 4
qióng poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly Colloquialism HSK 4
trash; refuse; garbage; (coll.) of poor quality; Taiwan pr. [lè sè] Colloquialism HSK 4
shāo to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head Colloquialism HSK 4
西 西 gòng Saigon, capital of former South Vietnam; Sai Kung town in New Territories, Hong Kong Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Yuè gòng Communist Party of Vietnam; Viet Cong Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Tián zhōng Tianzhong Township in Changhua County, Taiwan; Tanaka (Japanese surname) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Wén huà mìng Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Huì ān Hoi An (in Vietnam) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
tòu shè Reuters News Agency Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
jūn Japanese army; Japanese troops Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
háng Lufthansa (German airline); abbr. for Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
jié hero; heroic, outstanding ∼HSK 4
zhǎng guān senior official; senior officer; commanding officer; sir (term of address for senior officer) ∼HSK 4
shén me shì what matter ∼HSK 4
bào yìng (Buddhism) divine retribution; karma ∼HSK 4
variant of ∼HSK 4
shén me rén what kind of person ∼HSK 4
shī sàn to lose touch with; missing; scattered; separated from ∼HSK 4
jiǎn dān not simple; rather complicated; remarkable; marvelous ∼HSK 4
xìng huì nice to meet you ∼HSK 4
sàn coming together and separating; aggregation and dissipation ∼HSK 4
fǎn return, revert to, restore ∼HSK 4
kàn tòu to understand thoroughly; to see beyond the facade; to see through (sb) ∼HSK 4
shì taxi (loanword) ∼HSK 4
chuán mín people who live and make a living on boats ∼HSK 4
elegant, graceful, delicate ∼HSK 4
méi bàn there is nothing to be done; one can't do anything about it ∼HSK 4
mín háng civil aviation ∼HSK 4
ān Good afternoon!; Hello (daytime greeting) ∼HSK 4
sān lún chē pedicab; tricycle ∼HSK 4
zuò láo to be imprisoned ∼HSK 4
guó huò domestically produced goods ∼HSK 4
Xiāng mutually ∼HSK 4
jiàn guài to mind; to take offense ∼HSK 4
xīn xīn painstakingly; with great trouble ∼HSK 4
meaning, intent ∼HSK 4
shàng le nián to be getting on in years; to be of the older generation ∼HSK 4
shí - (idiom) (when followed by) at no time; never (Note: therefore means "at no time not...", i.e. "at all times".); (when not followed by) at all times; always ∼HSK 4
shí current political situation ∼HSK 4
mén door; strategic gateway; portal; faction; sect; family status; family; web portal; (old) brothel ∼HSK 4
guān chá jiā observer (esp. one who analyzes social or political affairs) ∼HSK 4
yán míng strict and impartial; firm ∼HSK 4
jiào xǐng to awaken; to wake sb up; to rouse ∼HSK 4
Zhèng the name of a state in the Zhou dynasty in the vicinity of present-day Xinzheng, a county-level city in Henan; surname Zheng; abbr. for Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan ∼HSK 4
zěn yāo huì how could it ∼HSK 4
kuǎn to withdraw money; to take money out of the bank ∼HSK 4
(elementary) particle; grain ∼HSK 4