Fallen Petals

Fallen Petals 1968

huā shíjié

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.

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Cài surname; species of tortoise ∼HSK 4
màn long, extended, vast; beautiful ∼HSK 4
banner, flag, streamer ∼HSK 4
dàn yào ammunition ∼HSK 4
zhī know ∼HSK 4
sān lún chē pedicab; tricycle ∼HSK 4
yóu shì especially; most of all; above all; in particular ∼HSK 4
dān shēn hàn bachelor; single man ∼HSK 4
huǒ everybody; everyone; we all ∼HSK 4
jiǔ liàng capacity for liquor; how much one can drink ∼HSK 4
meaning, intent ∼HSK 4
remember, reflect upon; memory ∼HSK 4
tiān the next day; on alternate days ∼HSK 4
yǒng long, perpetual, eternal, forever ∼HSK 4
unspecified period; in the indefinite future; no fixed time; indefinite sentence (i.e. life imprisonment) ∼HSK 4
father's elder brother's wife; aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman) HSK 4
kāi huā to bloom; to blossom; to flower; (fig.) to burst; to split open; (fig.) to burst with joy; (fig.) to spring up everywhere; to flourish HSK 4
xià lóu to go downstairs HSK 4
shàng lóu to go upstairs HSK 4
yào jǐn unimportant; not serious; it doesn't matter; never mind; it looks all right, but HSK 4
dòng yáo to sway; to waver; to rock; to rattle; to destabilize; to pose a challenge to HSK 4
Shù lín Shulin city in New Taipei City 市, Taiwan HSK 4
zhǔn shí on time; punctual; on schedule HSK 4
穿 穿 chuān shang to put on (clothes etc) HSK 4
shāo to have a high temperature (from illness); to have a fever HSK 4
tóng nián childhood HSK 4
zàn chéng to approve; to endorse; (literary) to assist HSK 4
lǎo shi honest; sincere; well-behaved; naive; gullible HSK 4
huì to misunderstand; to mistake; misunderstanding HSK 4
qián prospects; future outlook; journey HSK 4
zuò mèng to dream; to have a dream; fig. illusion; fantasy; pipe dream HSK 4
tóng qíng to sympathize with; sympathy HSK 4
xiàn unlimited; unbounded HSK 4
even; even if; even though; no matter how HSK 4
jiǎ if HSK 4
怀 huái niàn to cherish the memory of; to think of; to reminisce HSK 4
eldest brother; big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself); gang leader; boss HSK 4
fǎn ér on the contrary; instead HSK 4
dān to bear (an expense, a responsibility etc); burden HSK 4
shé to snap; to break (a stick, a bone etc); (bound form) to sustain a loss (in business) HSK 4
jiàn to meet HSK 4
chén taciturn; uncommunicative; silent HSK 4
to congregate; to assemble; to mass; to gather together; to amass; to polymerize HSK 4
xué medicine; medical science; study of medicine HSK 4
dān alone; by oneself; on one's own HSK 4
to move; to shift; to change; to alter; to remove HSK 4
guò to pass; to spend (time); to survive; to get through HSK 4
to send; to mail; to entrust; to depend on; to attach oneself to; to live (in a house); to lodge; foster (son etc) HSK 4
zhù blessings; to wish sb well HSK 4
féi fat; fertile; loose-fitting or large; to fertilize; to become rich by illegal means; fertilizer; manure HSK 4