Once a Gangster

Once a Gangster 2010

fēi shā fēng zhōngzhuǎn

Roast Pork joins the triad as a young man and ends up becoming a trusted lieutenant of boss Kerosene. However, his true passion is in his successful chain of restaurants, his loving wife, and his two children. So when Kerosene wants to promote his trusted right hand man to the top of the organization as a way to take on his financial debts, it's understandable why Roast Pork would want to refuse. Roast Pork comes up with an intricate scheme with his men that would take himself out of the running, but Kerosene's intervention causes it to fail. When all hopes appears to be lost, lifelong gangster Sparrow is released from jail after serving a 20-year sentence for committing a gang-related murder that earned him a guarantee for the leader spot. However, Sparrow has made his own plans to stay out of the gang, setting off a battle of wits between the two men.

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4.21 Intermediate Director Felix Chong Man-Keung IMDb 5.7

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Vocabulary

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sān - (idiom) dubious; shady; neither one thing nor the other; neither fish nor fowl; nondescript Xiehouyu ∼HSK 1
méi méi xiǎo impolite; cheeky; impudent Xiehouyu ∼HSK 1
qi you're welcome; don't mention it; impolite; rude; blunt Xiehouyu HSK 1
méi guān xi it doesn't matter Xiehouyu HSK 1
duì bu I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint Xiehouyu HSK 1
gān (bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with; one of the ten heavenly stems 干; (archaic) shield Xiehouyu HSK 1
huì improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
hǎo bu hǎo (coll.) all right?; OK? Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
kàn kan to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
zhēn shi indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
yǒu bìng to be ill; (coll.) to be not right in the head Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
yǒu běn shi to have what it takes; (coll.) (often followed by) (used to challenge sb) if you're so clever,..., if she's so tough,... etc; Example: Hit me if you dare! Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
(coll.) to take a taxi; to go by taxi Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
shi (coll.) of course; naturally; indeed Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
lǎo wài (coll.) foreigner (esp. non Asian person); layman; amateur Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
ye (coll.) father's father; paternal grandfather Colloquialism HSK 1
cài dish (type of food); vegetable; cuisine; (coll.) (one's) type; (of one's skills etc) weak; poor Colloquialism HSK 1
ròu meat; flesh; pulp (of a fruit); (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy; (of a person) flabby; irresolute; Kangxi radical 130 Colloquialism HSK 1
ba (coll.) father; dad Colloquialism HSK 1
kuài lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units Colloquialism HSK 1
huā flower; blossom; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful Colloquialism HSK 1
(coll.) what? Colloquialism HSK 1
(specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) Colloquialism HSK 1
zhāo (chess) move; trick; all right!; (dialect) to add HSK 1
Xiāng gǎng Hong Kong, special administrative region (SAR) of the PRC Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
běn Japan Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Liù refers to Tiananmen incident of 4th June 1989 Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Dōng xīng Dongxing district of Neijiang city, Sichuan; Dongxing, county-level city in Fangchenggang, Guangxi Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Shí PRC National Day (October 1st) Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
yuè August; eighth month (of the lunar year) Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
shì no; is not; not ∼HSK 1
èr shí twenty; 20 ∼HSK 1
méi shì it's not important; it's nothing; never mind; to have nothing to do; to be free; to be all right (out of danger or trouble) ∼HSK 1
zhège (pronoun) this; (adjective) this ∼HSK 1
first; first time; once; (math.) linear (of degree one) ∼HSK 1
nián a few years; several years; how many years? ∼HSK 1
(slang) what the...!; oh my god!; that's insane! ∼HSK 1
liù shí sixty; 60 ∼HSK 1
sān shí thirty; 30 ∼HSK 1
zuò shì to work; to handle matters; to have a job ∼HSK 1
ge a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) ∼HSK 1
xīng a star, planet; any point of light ∼HSK 1
zhè wèi this (person) ∼HSK 1
wéi shàng to be valued above all else ∼HSK 1
zhuō table, desk, stand ∼HSK 1
néng cannot; must not; should not ∼HSK 1
nián lái this past year; over the last years ∼HSK 1
dào liǎo at last; finally; in the end ∼HSK 1
xiǎng unexpectedly; to one's surprise ∼HSK 1
tiān that day; the other day ∼HSK 1