Rigor Mortis

Rigor Mortis 2013

jiāngshī

When a former actor moves into an apartment building with the intention of commiting suicide, he is saved by a Taoist priest who used to specialize in hunting Chinese hopping vampires: or Jiāngshī. Elsewhere in the building, a woman turns to a specialist in black magic to bring her husband back to life.

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3.77 Beginner Director Juno Mak 🍅 65%

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Vocabulary

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liú 不: no, not; un-; negative prefix · 留: stop, halt; stay, detain, keep · 余: I, my, me; surname; surplus · 地: earth; soil, ground; region Idiom ∼HSK 7
dǎo luàn to disturb; to look for trouble; to stir up a row; to bother sb intentionally Xiehouyu HSK 7
common saying; proverb; colloquial speech Colloquialism HSK 7
xié demonic; iniquitous; nefarious; evil; unhealthy influences that cause disease (Chinese medicine); (coll.) strange; abnormal Colloquialism HSK 7
孿 luán shēng (adj.) twin HSK 7
tún to station (soldiers); to store up; village HSK 7
qīng dàn light (of food, not greasy or strongly flavored); insipid; slack (sales) HSK 7
tán platform; rostrum; altar HSK 7
yòng rén servant; to employ sb for a job; to manage people; to be in need of staff HSK 7
pāi to shoot a movie HSK 7
tuǒ dang appropriate; proper; ready HSK 7
hòu sometime; someday (in the future) HSK 7
mother's sister; aunt HSK 7
zhǎ yǎn to blink; to wink; in the twinkling of an eye HSK 7
kěn Refuse HSK 7
huāng miù absurd; ridiculous HSK 7
liàn to refine; to smelt HSK 7
earth; soil; mud; clay HSK 7
āo depressed; sunken; indented; concave; female (connector etc) HSK 7
guān cai coffin HSK 7
miào temple; ancestral shrine; temple fair; great imperial hall; imperial HSK 7
wán shuǎ to play (as children do); to amuse oneself HSK 7
měng liè fierce; violent; vigorous; intense HSK 7
cōng scallion; green onion HSK 7
xiāng xia countryside; rural area HSK 7
zhēng to evaporate; (of cooking) to steam; torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old); finely chopped firewood (old) HSK 7
zhí qián valuable; costly; expensive HSK 7
hǎo xīn kindness; good intentions HSK 7
to spread; to lay out; to apply (powder, ointment etc); sufficient (to cover); enough HSK 7
róng receptacle; vessel; (computing) container HSK 7
shǎo jiàn rare; seldom seen; (formal) it's a rare pleasure to see you HSK 7
xīn intention; regard; kindly feelings HSK 7
wèi kǒu appetite; liking HSK 7
ink stick; China ink; corporal punishment consisting of tattooing characters on the victim's forehead HSK 7
lán fence; railing; hurdle; column or box (of text or other data) HSK 7
wèi odor; scent HSK 7
chí zǎo sooner or later HSK 7
zǎo early in the morning; at dawn HSK 7
xiān xuè blood HSK 7
liú làng to drift about; to wander; to roam; nomadic; homeless; unsettled (e.g. population); vagrant HSK 7
guà the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易经; gossip; gossipy HSK 7
尿 尿 táng niào bìng diabetes; diabetes mellitus HSK 7
to amass; to accumulate; to store; measured quantity (such as area of volume); product (the result of multiplication); to integrate (math.); to solve (or integrate) an ordinary differential equation (math.); old; long-standing HSK 7
shuō dào to state; to say (the quoted words) HSK 7
chēng hu to call; to address as; form of address; appellation HSK 7
zǒu láng corridor; aisle; hallway; passageway; veranda HSK 7
bài tuō to request sb to do sth; please! HSK 7
chū shǒu to dispose of; to spend (money); to undertake a task HSK 7
dài to replace; to supersede; to supplant; (chemistry) substitution HSK 7
hún soul; spirit; immortal soul (that can be detached from the body) HSK 7