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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wài biǎo external; outside; outward appearance HSK 7
tóng copper (chemistry); see also 红铜 HSK 7
āi interjection of wonder, shock or admiration HSK 7
hǎo xiào laughable; funny; ridiculous HSK 7
jìng (bound form) respectful; to respect; to offer politely HSK 7
měi wèi delicious; delicious food; delicacy HSK 7
huì city; metropolis HSK 7
chèn to avail oneself of; to take advantage of HSK 7
also HSK 7
guāi (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal HSK 7
to apply (paint etc); to smear; to daub; to blot out; to scribble; to scrawl; (literary) mud; street HSK 7
ě used in 恶心 HSK 7
shàn good (virtuous); benevolent; well-disposed; good at sth; to improve or perfect HSK 7
zhī juice HSK 7
to calculate; to compute; to count; to regard as important; to plan; ruse; meter; gauge HSK 7
huī ash; dust; lime; gray; discouraged; dejected HSK 7
āi interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh HSK 7
shī dead body; corpse; carcass HSK 7
líng quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin HSK 7
luó gauze; to collect; to gather; to catch; to sift HSK 7
zhī not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) HSK 7
ér that's all; nothing more HSK 7
zhǔ owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) HSK 7
zhī (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it HSK 7
shēng féng shí born at the wrong time (idiom); unlucky (esp. to complain about one's fate); born under an unlucky star; ahead of his time Idiom ∼HSK 6
rén zhì jìn extreme benevolence, utmost duty (idiom); meticulous virtue and attention to duty Idiom ∼HSK 6
jiè shī huán hún lit. reincarnated in sb else's body (idiom); fig. a discarded or discredited idea returns in another guise Idiom ∼HSK 6
tiān (literary) to be in defiance of the natural order; (coll.) extraordinary; incredible Colloquialism ∼HSK 6
used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? Colloquialism HSK 6
yǒu méi yǒu (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? HSK 6
zhǐzhe Poke HSK 6
miàn zhào mask; visor; facepiece (e.g. diving suit, gas mask) ∼HSK 6
zhǔ fàn to cook ∼HSK 6
kǒu propriety in speech ∼HSK 6
shū fu unwell; feeling ill; to feel uncomfortable; uneasy ∼HSK 6
bài 一: one; a, an; alone · 拜: do obeisance, bow, kowtow ∼HSK 6
diào jǐng to hang oneself ∼HSK 6
chǎo cài to stir-fry; to do the cooking; stir-fried dish ∼HSK 6
táng shí to eat in (at the restaurant) (contrasted with); (restaurant) dine-in service ∼HSK 6
gài lán variant of ∼HSK 6
bái zhōu plain rice congee ∼HSK 6
féng to darn (clothing); to sew and mend ∼HSK 6
to take care of; to sort out; to manage; to put in order ∼HSK 6
dàng zi classifier for affairs, events etc ∼HSK 6
jié to finish school, esp. a short course; to complete a course; (of a company) to cease operations ∼HSK 6
zhà to kill with an explosion ∼HSK 6
bàn tuǒ to arrange; to settle; to complete; to carry through ∼HSK 6
kēng to dig a hole; (fig.) to make things difficult for sb; (neologism) (slang) (of a writer) to start work on a new project ∼HSK 6
pāo xià to throw down; to dump; to abandon; thrown down ∼HSK 6
tóng roommate; to share a room ∼HSK 6