Iron Monkey

Iron Monkey 1993

鸿 huángfēihóng zhī tiě liú

In this Hong Kong variation of Robin Hood, corrupt officials of a Chinese village are robbed by a masked bandit known as "Iron Monkey", named after a benevolent deity. When all else fails, the Governor forces a traveling physician into finding the bandit.

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5.05 Advanced Director Yuen Woo-Ping 🍅 91%

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zhōu prefecture; (old) province; (old) administrative division; state (e.g. of US); oblast (Russia); canton (Switzerland) HSK 6
wèi why HSK 6
hùn to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless HSK 6
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
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
yīng xióng hero HSK 6
Zàng Tibet; abbr. for Xizang or Tibet Autonomous Region 藏 HSK 6
zhāo to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess HSK 6
mìng life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc HSK 6
ruò to seem; like; as; if HSK 6
secondary; auxiliary; deputy; assistant; vice-; abbr. for 副词 adverb; classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions HSK 6
jǐn to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to HSK 6
to force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for; to extort; to press on towards; to press up to; to close in on; euphemistic variant of 屄 HSK 6
qīng (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts) HSK 6
yǒu guān to have sth to do with; to relate to; related to; to concern; concerning HSK 6
zuō worker; workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person) HSK 6
tóng like; same; similar; together; alike; with HSK 6
(onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat HSK 6
(of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by HSK 6
shēng guān cái to be promoted and gain wealth (idiom) Idiom ∼HSK 5
shā jǐng bǎi lit. kill one to warn a hundred (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others; pour encourager les autres Idiom ∼HSK 5
chí le late Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
gǔn kāi (of a liquid) to boil; boiling hot; (rude) get out!; go away!; fuck off! Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
mào pái huò fake goods; imitation; forgery Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
yuān yāng shuǐ lit. mandarin ducks playing in the water; fig. to make love Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
chòu stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) Xiehouyu HSK 5
to estimate; to reckon; (coll.) to suppose Colloquialism HSK 5
legendary auspicious animal ∼HSK 5
yǎn overflow, spill over, spread out ∼HSK 5
zěn how (variant of 怎么) ∼HSK 5
zhǎng palm of hand, sole of foot, paw ∼HSK 5
chì shark fin ∼HSK 5
xún patrol ∼HSK 5
Xíng punishment, penalty; law ∼HSK 5
pàn traitor; turncoat; rebel; renegade; insurgent ∼HSK 5
zāi mín victim (of a disaster) ∼HSK 5
liáng xiǎng army provisions ∼HSK 5
a hematoma, contusion; extravasted blood ∼HSK 5
gāng lever, pole, crowbar; sharpen ∼HSK 5
lǎo ye master, sir ∼HSK 5
guān authorities; feudal official ∼HSK 5
xiù sleeve; put something in sleeve ∼HSK 5
tiān zāi natural disaster ∼HSK 5
impede, hinder, obstruct; oppose ∼HSK 5
tōu chī to eat on the sly; to pilfer food; to be unfaithful ∼HSK 5
me interrogative particle (variant of 嘛) ∼HSK 5
Róng glory, honor; flourish, prosper ∼HSK 5
beg; request ∼HSK 5
sneeze ∼HSK 5
méi eyebrows; upper margin of book ∼HSK 5