Aftershock

Aftershock 2010

táng shān zhèn

Tangshan, 1976. Two seven-year-old twins are buried under the rubble of the deadliest earthquake of the 20th century. The rescue team explains to their mother that freeing either child will almost certainly result in the death of the other. Forced to make the most difficult decision of her life, she finally chooses to save her son. Though left behind as dead, the little girl miraculously survives, unbeknownst to her brother and mother.

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3.71 Beginner Director Feng Xiaogang 🍅 91%

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zūn zhòng to esteem; to respect; to honor; to value; eminent; serious; proper HSK 5
to scare; to intimidate; to threaten; (interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut; (interjection showing astonishment) HSK 5
shèng xià to remain; to be left over HSK 5
hèn to hate; to regret HSK 5
dāi to stay HSK 5
péi to accompany; to keep sb company; to assist; old variant of 赔 HSK 5
Shén God; abbr. for 舟 HSK 5
shēng sound; voice; tone; noise; reputation; classifier for sounds HSK 5
kěn dìng to be certain; to be positive; assuredly; definitely; to give recognition; to affirm; affirmative (answer) HSK 5
gǎo to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of HSK 5
(prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very HSK 5
ér shī to lose what one has just obtained (idiom) Idiom ∼HSK 4
lái bu there's not enough time (to do sth); it's too late (to do sth) Xiehouyu HSK 4
bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly Xiehouyu HSK 4
lǎo gōng (coll.) husband Colloquialism HSK 4
lǎo (coll.) wife 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
liǎ two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some Colloquialism HSK 4
bào to hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug; to embrace; to surround; to cherish; (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely Colloquialism HSK 4
Táng shān Tangshan, prefecture-level city in Hebei Province; China (a name for China used by some overseas Chinese) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Li (surname) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Táng shān Shì Tangshan, prefecture-level city in Hebei Province Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Shí jiā zhuāng Shijiazhuang, prefecture-level city and capital of Hebei Province Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Táng shān zhèn Great Tangshan Earthquake (1976) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
zhě Wén zhāi Reader's Digest Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
méi xiǎng dào didn't expect HSK 4
zán liǎ the two of us ∼HSK 4
meaning, intent ∼HSK 4
zěn yāo néng how could one ∼HSK 4
fāng jiā learned person; expert in a certain field; abbr. for ∼HSK 4
bǎi huò lóu department store ∼HSK 4
hǎo xiē a good deal of; quite a lot ∼HSK 4
zhèn at that time; then ∼HSK 4
shǒu zhǎng senior official ∼HSK 4
Xiè thank ∼HSK 4
arouse, excite, incite; quickly ∼HSK 4
wài sūn daughter's daughter; granddaughter ∼HSK 4
yǎng foster father; adoptive father ∼HSK 4
怀 Huái bosom, breast; carry in bosom ∼HSK 4
wáng dàn bastard; son of a bitch ∼HSK 4
bu that's just the way it is; exactly! ∼HSK 4
bào bào to hug; to give a cuddle ∼HSK 4
qīng chu unclear; not understood; currently unknown ∼HSK 4
dài shang to put on (hat etc) ∼HSK 4
Jiǎng surname; hydropyrum latifalium ∼HSK 4
shāo zhǐ to burn paper offerings (as part of religious ceremony) ∼HSK 4
military; martial, warlike ∼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
kuò go, reach; appropriate, suitable ∼HSK 4
zhàn fang to take up space ∼HSK 4