A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop

A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop 2009

sān qiāng pāi'ànjīng

Wang is a gloomy, cunning and avaricious noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. His neglected, sharp-tongued wife is involved in a secret affair with Li, one of Wang’s employees. A timid man, Li reluctantly keeps the gun his lover has bought to kill her husband. But Wang is watching their every move. He bribes patrol officer Zhang to murder the illicit couple. It seems like a perfect plan: the affair will come to a cruel, bloody but satisfying end or so he thinks. The equally wicked Zhang has an agenda of his own. As the plot twists, more blood will flow, and ever greater violence will erupt.

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3.69 Beginner Director Zhang Yimou 🍅 34%

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pāi àn jīng to slap the table in amazement (idiom); wonderful!; amazing! Idiom ∼HSK 6
shuǐ lòu lit. not one drop of water can leak out; watertight; rigorous (argument) Idiom ∼HSK 6
cǎo jīng shé lit. beat the grass to scare the snake (idiom); fig. to inadvertently alert an enemy; to punish sb as a warning to others Idiom ∼HSK 6
nang fèi (coll.) spineless coward; wimp; a good-for-nothing Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
xiā shuō to talk drivel; to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact; not to know what one is talking about Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
gāo shǒu expert; past master; dab hand Xiehouyu HSK 6
léi thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 雷 land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb) Colloquialism HSK 6
used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? Colloquialism HSK 6
lǎo bǎn niáng female proprietor; lady boss; boss's wife ∼HSK 6
zi pockmark ∼HSK 6
xún luó duì (army, police) patrol ∼HSK 6
nán south slope ∼HSK 6
yān to drown ∼HSK 6
láo prison ∼HSK 6
bēn to elope ∼HSK 6
zhān biān to have a connection with; to be close (to reality); to be relevant; to have one's hand in ∼HSK 6
kào reliable; reasonable; probable ∼HSK 6
zhà léi thunderclap ∼HSK 6
dàn wán pellet ∼HSK 6
hōng lōng (onom.) rumbling; rolling ∼HSK 6
rén fàn criminal; culprit; suspect (old) ∼HSK 6
dūn xià to squat down; to crouch ∼HSK 6
shēng huó zuò fēng behavior; conduct ∼HSK 6
qīng bái pure; innocent ∼HSK 6
zhēn to investigate (as detective); to solve (crime); to uncover (a plot); to sniff out; to break in and analyze; detective work; to scout ∼HSK 6
shuǐ líng (of fruit etc) fresh; (of a person etc) full of life; healthy-looking; (of eyes) moist and bright; lustrous ∼HSK 6
sān - chà variant of ∼HSK 6
chū rén mìng fatal; resulting in sb's death ∼HSK 6
jiǎ zhī artificial limb; prosthetic limb ∼HSK 6
bái xiā (dialect) to waste (effort, money etc) ∼HSK 6
niáng niang qiāng sissy; effeminate ∼HSK 6
chá shí 查: investigate, examine, seek into · 无: negative, no, not; KangXi radical 71 · 实: real, true; honest, sincere · 据: to occupy, take possession of; a base, position ∼HSK 6
suǒ combination lock ∼HSK 6
shén shèng qīn fàn sacred; inviolable ∼HSK 6
xiāo to cool one's temper ∼HSK 6
dǎo gu to fiddle with sth; to trade with sth ∼HSK 6
niáng de same as ∼HSK 6
shàng along the way; the whole way; (fig.) the whole time HSK 6
fāng wèi direction; points of the compass; bearing; position; azimuth HSK 6
zǎo wǎn morning and evening; (dialect) some time in the future; some day HSK 6
chē cart; chariot; carriage; buggy HSK 6
āi hey; ow; ouch; interjection of pain or surprise HSK 6
yǒu shì to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter HSK 6
zhàng account; bill; debt HSK 6
specially; intentionally HSK 6
bāo to sauté; to fry; to dry by heating HSK 6
kān hǎo to keep an eye on HSK 6
diào to suspend; to hang up; to hang a person HSK 6
fu to bully HSK 6
dūn to crouch; to squat; to stay (somewhere) HSK 6