A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box

A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box 1995

大话西游之月光宝盒 dà huà xī yóu zhī yuèguāng bǎo hé

When the Goddess of Happiness tosses the Longevity Monk and his disciples out of heaven (because the Monkey King tried to attain immortality), the Monkey King is reincarnated as the Joker. He now spends his time chasing two jealous women. When one of them is dying, the Joker goes back in time in an attempt to save her.

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4.56 Intermediate Director Jeffrey Lau Chun-Wai IMDb 7.5

Cast

Stephen Chow Stephen Chow Joker / Monkey King Richard Ng Man-Tat Richard Ng Man-Tat Piggy Law Kar-Ying Law Kar-Ying Longevity Monk Yammie Lam Kit-Ying Yammie Lam Kit-Ying Spider Demon Karen Mok Man-Wai Karen Mok Man-Wai White-Bone Demon / Pak Jing Jing Johnnie Kong Johnnie Kong Sandy / Blindy Lu Shuming Lu Shuming King Bull Jeffrey Lau Chun-Wai Jeffrey Lau Chun-Wai Grape Buddha Athena Chu Yan Athena Chu Yan Lin Zixia Lee Kin-Yan Lee Kin-Yan

Vocabulary

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嘛 嘛 má used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? Colloquialism HSK 6
有没有 有沒有 yǒu méi yǒu (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? HSK 6
晶晶 晶晶 jīng jīng glistening; gleaming; lustrous ∼HSK 6
瞎子 瞎子 xiā zi blind person ∼HSK 6
娘子 娘子 niáng zǐ (dialect) form of address for one's wife; polite form of address for a woman ∼HSK 6
大仙 大仙 dà xiān Great Immortal ∼HSK 6
般若 般若 bō rě (Buddhism) wisdom; insight into the true nature of reality (from Sanskrit prajñā) ∼HSK 6
波罗蜜 波羅蜜 bō luó mì jackfruit; breadfruit; Artocarpus heterophyllus ∼HSK 6
西经 西經 xī jīng west longitude ∼HSK 6
乾坤 乾坤 qián kūn yin and yang; heaven and earth; the universe ∼HSK 6
啰嗦 囉嗦 luō suo variant of ∼HSK 6
斗鸡眼 鬥雞眼 dòu jī yǎn cross-eye ∼HSK 6
山贼 山賊 shān zéi brigand ∼HSK 6
解药 解藥 jiě yào antidote ∼HSK 6
老孙 老孫 lǎo Sūn this old Sun (Wukong's self-reference) ∼HSK 6
痔疮 痔瘡 zhì chuāng hemorrhoid ∼HSK 6
何方 何方 hé fāng from where ∼HSK 6
饶命 饒命 ráo mìng to spare sb's life ∼HSK 6
有道理 有道理 yǒu dào li to make sense; reasonable ∼HSK 6
烧焦 燒焦 shāo jiāo to burn; to scorch; burned; burning; scorched; charred ∼HSK 6
秀逗 秀逗 xiù dòu to short-circuit; (fig.) to have a mental lapse; to get one's wires crossed; to be addled ∼HSK 6
好哇 好哇 hǎo wā hurray!; hurrah!; yippee! ∼HSK 6
负心 負心 fù xīn ungrateful; heartless; to fail to be loyal to one's love ∼HSK 6
冷颤 冷顫 lěng zhan variant of ∼HSK 6
我儿 我兒 wǒ rén my child ∼HSK 6
相公 相公 xiàng gong lord; master; young gentleman; male prostitute; catamite; mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes; (old form of address for one's husband) husband ∼HSK 6
畜牲 畜牲 chù shēng variant of ∼HSK 6
如来 如來 rú lái tathagata (Buddha's name for himself, having many layers of meaning - Sanskrit: thus gone, having been Brahman, gone to the absolute etc) ∼HSK 6
串通 串通 chuàn tōng to collude; to collaborate; to gang up ∼HSK 6
仙子 仙子 xiān zǐ fairy ∼HSK 6
决一死战 決一死戰 jué yī sǐ zhàn 决: decide, determine, judge · 一: one; a, an; alone · 死: die; dead; death · 战: war, fighting, battle ∼HSK 6
长篇大论 長篇大論 cháng piān dà lùn 长: long; length; excel in; leader · 篇: chapter, section, essay, article · 大: big, great, vast, large, high · 论: debate; discuss; discourse ∼HSK 6
替天行道 替天行道 tì tiān xíng dào 替: change, replace, substitute for · 天: sky, heaven; god, celestial · 行: go; walk; move, travel; circulate · 道: path, road, street; method, way ∼HSK 6
不消 不消 bù xiāo to not need; needless (to say) ∼HSK 6
贫僧 貧僧 pínsēng this humble monk ∼HSK 6
哑巴 啞巴 yǎ ba a mute; mute; silent ∼HSK 6
险恶 險惡 xiǎn è dangerous; sinister; vicious ∼HSK 6
凛冽 凜冽 lǐn liè biting cold ∼HSK 6
羊入虎口 羊入虎口 yáng rù hǔ kǒu lit. a lamb in a tiger's den (idiom); fig. to tread dangerous ground ∼HSK 6
魔头 魔頭 mó tóu monster; devil ∼HSK 6
德性 德性 dé xìng moral integrity ∼HSK 6
闯荡江湖 闖蕩江湖 chuǎng dàng jiāng hú to travel around the country ∼HSK 6
造谣 造謠 zào yáo to start a rumor ∼HSK 6
凡事 凡事 fán shì everything ∼HSK 6
驾临 駕臨 jià lín to grace sb with one's presence; your arrival (honorific); your esteemed presence ∼HSK 6
逗留 逗留 dòu liú to stay for a while; to sojourn ∼HSK 6
小便 小便 xiǎo biàn urine; to urinate; (euphemism) penis or vulva ∼HSK 6
吃里扒外 吃裡扒外 chī lǐ pá wài 吃: eat; drink; suffer, endure, bear · 里: unit of distance; village; lane · 扒: scratch; dig up; crawl; crouch · 外: out, outside, external; foreign ∼HSK 6
膝下 膝下 xī xià at the knee (in reference to children); (salutation used in letters to parents or grandparents) ∼HSK 6
孺子可教 孺子可教 rú zǐ kě jiào 孺: child; blood relation; affection · 子: offspring, child; fruit, seed of; 1st terrestrial branch · 可: may, can, -able; possibly · 教: teach, class ∼HSK 6