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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至于 至於 zhì yú as for; as to; to go so far as to HSK 6
托 托 tuō prop; support (for weight); rest (e.g. arm rest); thanks to; to hold in one's hand; to support in one's palm; to give; to base; to commit; to set; torr (unit of pressure) HSK 6
挖 挖 wā to dig; to excavate; to scoop out HSK 6
负 負 fù to bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on; to be defeated; negative (math. etc) HSK 6
除 除 chú to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out; to divide; except; not including HSK 6
再说 再說 zài shuō to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides HSK 6
母 母 mǔ mother; elderly female relative; origin; source; (of animals) female HSK 6
踢 踢 tī to kick; to play (e.g. soccer); (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship) HSK 6
爽 爽 shuǎng bright; clear; crisp; open; frank; straightforward; to feel well; fine; pleasurable; invigorating; to deviate HSK 6
拖 拕 tuō to drag; to tow; to trail; to hang down; to mop (the floor); to delay; to drag on HSK 6
算是 算是 suàn shì considered to be; at last HSK 6
觉 覺 jiào a nap; a sleep HSK 6
解 解 jiě to divide; to break up; to split; to separate; to dissolve; to solve; to melt; to remove; to untie; to loosen; to open; to emancipate; to explain; to understand; to know; a solution; a dissection HSK 6
爆炸 爆炸 bào zhà explosion; to explode; to blow up; to detonate HSK 6
剑 劍 jiàn double-edged sword; classifier for blows of a sword HSK 6
理 理 lǐ texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up HSK 6
样 樣 yàng manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type HSK 6
服 服 fú clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument); to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes HSK 6
犯 犯 fàn to violate; to offend; to assault; criminal; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) HSK 6
英雄 英雄 yīng xióng hero HSK 6
招 招 zhāo to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess HSK 6
命 命 mìng life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc HSK 6
清 清 qīng (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts) HSK 6
不再 不再 bù zài no more; no longer HSK 6
便 便 biàn plain; informal; suitable; convenient; opportune; to urinate or defecate; equivalent to 就: then; in that case; even if; soon afterwards HSK 6
哇 哇 wā Wow!; sound of a child's crying; sound of vomiting HSK 6
啦 啦 lā (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat HSK 6
与 與 yǔ and; to give; together with HSK 6
婆婆妈妈 婆婆媽媽 pó po mā mā effeminate; old-womanish; garrulous; fainthearted; overly careful; overly sensitive; maudlin Idiom ∼HSK 5
寸草不生 寸草不生 cùn cǎo - bù shēng lit. not even a blade of grass grows (idiom); fig. barren Idiom ∼HSK 5
披头散发 披頭散髮 pī tóu sàn fà with dishevelled hair (idiom); with one's hair down Idiom ∼HSK 5
不动声色 不動聲色 bù dòng shēng sè not a word or movement (idiom); remaining calm and collected; not batting an eyelid Idiom ∼HSK 5
快马加鞭 快馬加鞭 kuài mǎ jiā biān to spur the horse to full speed (idiom); to go as fast as possible Idiom ∼HSK 5
滚开 滾開 gǔn kāi (of a liquid) to boil; boiling hot; (rude) get out!; go away!; fuck off! Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
丢人现眼 丟人現眼 diū rén xiàn yǎn to make an exhibition of oneself; to be a disgrace Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
混蛋 混蛋 hún dàn scoundrel; bastard; hoodlum; wretch Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
推三阻四 推三阻四 tuī sān zǔ sì to use all sorts of excuses Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
舍己为人 捨己為人 shě jǐ wèi rén to abandon self for others (idiom, from Analects); to sacrifice one's own interest for other people; altruism Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
一声不响 一聲不響 yī shēng bù xiǎng to keep totally silent; noiselessly Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
臭 臭 chòu stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) Xiehouyu HSK 5
没搞头 沒搞頭 méi gǎo tou (coll.) not worth bothering with; pointless Colloquialism ∼HSK 5
撞鬼 撞鬼 zhuàng guǐ to encounter a ghost or supernatural being; (coll.) to experience sth strange, eerie or unlucky Colloquialism ∼HSK 5
胡子 鬍子 hú zi beard; mustache or whiskers; facial hair; (coll.) bandit Colloquialism HSK 5
妖 妖 yāo demon, monster ∼HSK 5
祖 祖 Zǔ ancestor, forefather; grandfather ∼HSK 5
至尊 至尊 zhì zūn the most honorable; the most respected; supreme; (archaic) the emperor ∼HSK 5
师妹 師妹 shī mèi younger sister disciple ∼HSK 5
痣 痣 zhì spots, moles; birthmark ∼HSK 5
白骨 白骨 bái gǔ bones of the dead ∼HSK 5
菩 菩 pú herb, aromatic plant ∼HSK 5