Fallen Petals 1968
落花时节
Taiwan's most glamorous screen couple, Ko Chun-Hsiung and Chang Mei-Yao, co-star in "Fallen Petals", a romance with the unique setting of Taiwan during World War II, when the island was a colony of Japan. Ko is drafted into the Japanese army and forced to leave his pregnant girlfriend behind. When he is presumably killed in action, Chang becomes a cabaret girl to support their baby. Thanks to director Pan Lei's sensitive scenario, the dramatic outcome is far from predictable.
Vocabulary
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| 放假 放假 | to have a holiday or vacation | |
| 多年来 多年來 | for the past many years | |
| 楼上 樓上 | upstairs; (Internet slang) previous poster in a forum thread | |
| 请问 請問 | Excuse me, may I ask...? | |
| 坐下 坐下 | to sit down | |
| 姐 姐 | older sister | |
| 男朋友 男朋友 | boyfriend | |
| 听见 聽見 | to hear | |
| 女朋友 女朋友 | girlfriend | |
| 唱歌 唱歌 | to sing a song | |
| 是不是 是不是 | is or isn't; yes or no; whether or not | |
| 起床 起床 | to get out of bed; to get up | |
| 不对 不對 | incorrect; wrong; amiss; abnormal; queer | |
| 哪儿 哪兒 | where?; wherever; anywhere; somewhere; (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...? | |
| 这儿 這兒 | here | |
| 妹 妹 | younger sister | |
| 那边 那邊 | over there; yonder | |
| 贵 貴 | expensive; noble; precious; (honorific) your | |
| 上午 上午 | morning | |
| 九 九 | nine; 9 | |
| 雨 雨 | rain | |
| 女生 女生 | schoolgirl; female student; girl | |
| 进来 進來 | to come in | |
| 同学 同學 | to study at the same school; fellow student; classmate | |
| 哥哥 哥哥 | older brother | |
| 进去 進去 | to go in | |
| 小姐 小姐 | young lady; miss; (slang) prostitute | |
| 家人 家人 | family member; (old) servant | |
| 上班 上班 | to go to work; to be on duty; to start work; to go to the office | |
| 饿 餓 | to be hungry; hungry; to starve (sb) | |
| 衣服 衣服 | clothes | |
| 七 七 | seven; 7 | |
| 八 八 | eight; 8 | |
| 毛 毛 | hair; feather; down; wool; mildew; mold; coarse or semifinished; young; raw; careless; unthinking; nervous; scared; (of currency) to devalue or depreciate; classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角 , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分) | |
| 一边 一邊 | one side; either side; on the one hand; on the other hand; doing while | |
| 坏 壞 | bad; spoiled; broken; to break down; (suffix) to the utmost | |
| 班 班 | team; class; grade; (military) squad; work shift; classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles | |
| 累 累 | to accumulate; to involve or implicate (Taiwan pr. [lèi]); continuous; repeated | |
| 回去 回去 | to return; to go back | |
| 哥 哥 | elder brother | |
| 记 記 | to record; to note; to memorize; to remember; mark; sign; classifier for blows, kicks, shots | |
| 飞机 飛機 | airplane | |
| 冷 冷 | cold | |
| 忘 忘 | to forget; to overlook; to neglect | |
| 不用 不用 | need not | |
| 家里 家裡 | home | |
| 第 第 | (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 六 "sixth"); (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed; (old) residence of a high official; (literary) but; however; (literary) only; just | |
| 回到 回到 | to return to | |
| 床 床 | bed; couch; classifier for beds | |
| 白 白 | white; snowy; pure; bright; empty; blank; plain; clear; to make clear; in vain; gratuitous; free of charge; reactionary; anti-communist; funeral; to stare coldly; to write wrong character; to state; to explain; vernacular; spoken lines in opera |