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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fēi airplane HSK 1
cháng always; ever; often; frequently; common; general; constant HSK 1
lěng cold HSK 1
yòng need not HSK 1
jiāo to teach HSK 1
chā difference; discrepancy; (math.) difference (amount remaining after a subtraction); (literary) a little; somewhat; slightly HSK 1
shì to test; to try; experiment; examination; test HSK 1
to warm up; to heat up; hot (of weather); heat; fervent HSK 1
shuō huà to speak; to say; to talk; to gossip; to tell stories; talk; word HSK 1
shí ten; 10 HSK 1
máng busy; hurriedly; to hurry; to rush HSK 1
men they; them (for females) HSK 1
shēng doctor HSK 1
bìng illness; disease; to fall ill; defect HSK 1
chū to go out HSK 1
fēi to fly HSK 1
bāo to cover; to wrap; to hold; to include; to take charge of; to contract (to or for); package; wrapper; container; bag; to hold or embrace; bundle; packet HSK 1
where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment; also written 哪里 HSK 1
de to remember HSK 1
míng bai clear; obvious; unequivocal; to understand; to realize HSK 1
ér zi son HSK 1
èr two; 2; (Beijing dialect) stupid HSK 1
kǒu mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or mouthfuls HSK 1
zhēn de really, truly, indeed HSK 1
chóng to repeat; repetition; again; re-; classifier: layer HSK 1
dòng (of sth) to move; to set in movement; to displace; to touch; to make use of; to stir (emotions); to alter; abbr. for 动词, verb HSK 1
nán male; Baron, lowest of five orders of nobility 位 HSK 1
xiān sheng teacher; gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.); husband; (dialect) doctor HSK 1
five; 5 HSK 1
wǎn evening; night; late HSK 1
huí jiā to return home HSK 1
páo (of an animal) to paw (the ground) HSK 1
how; which HSK 1
diàn yǐng movie; film HSK 1
jiān between; among; within a definite time or space; room; section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars; classifier for rooms HSK 1
shǎo few; less; to lack; to be missing; to stop (doing sth); seldom HSK 1
cuò mistake; wrong; bad; interlocking; complex; to grind; to polish; to alternate; to stagger; to miss; to let slip; to evade; to inlay with gold or silver HSK 1
ma mama; mommy; mother HSK 1
duō shǎo number; amount; somewhat HSK 1
xiè xie to thank; thanks; thank you HSK 1
wài outside; in addition; foreign; external HSK 1
four; 4 HSK 1
huí lai to return; to come back HSK 1
shuì to sleep; to lie down HSK 1
shēn shang on the body; at hand; among HSK 1
Zuò surname Zuo HSK 1
穿 穿 chuān to wear; to put on; to dress; to bore through; to pierce; to perforate; to penetrate; to pass through; to thread HSK 1
mén gate; door; gateway; doorway; opening; valve; switch; way to do something; knack; family; house; (religious) sect; school (of thought); class; category; phylum or division (taxonomy); classifier for large guns; classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology; (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate) HSK 1
wán to play; to have fun; to trifle with; toy; sth used for amusement; curio or antique (Taiwan pr. [wàn]); to keep sth for entertainment HSK 1
bié ren other people; others; other person HSK 1