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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trick; drama; play; show HSK 5
yùn to move; to transport; to use; to apply; fortune; luck; fate HSK 5
diū to lose; to put aside; to throw HSK 5
guǐ disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 诡); one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy HSK 5
shǎ foolish HSK 5
Shén God; abbr. for 舟 HSK 5
abbr. for 哈萨克斯坦, Kazakhstan; abbr. for 哈尔滨, Harbin HSK 5
shā to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely HSK 5
gǎo to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of HSK 5
jiāng will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) HSK 5
(prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very HSK 5
yòng useless; worthless Xiehouyu ∼HSK 4
lái bu there's not enough time (to do sth); it's too late (to do sth) Xiehouyu HSK 4
lěng jìng calm; cool-headed; dispassionate; (of a place) deserted; quiet Xiehouyu HSK 4
qīng sōng light; gentle; relaxed; effortless; uncomplicated; to relax; to take things less seriously Xiehouyu HSK 4
dān chē (coll.) bicycle; bike (esp. in Hong Kong, Taiwan and southern China and, more generally, used across China to refer to a bike-share bicycle) Colloquialism ∼HSK 4
xiū to repair; to fix; to prune; to trim; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb Colloquialism HSK 4
lǎo gōng (coll.) husband Colloquialism HSK 4
trash; refuse; garbage; (coll.) of poor quality; Taiwan pr. [lè sè] Colloquialism HSK 4
lǎo (coll.) wife Colloquialism HSK 4
shāo to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head Colloquialism HSK 4
liǎ two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some Colloquialism HSK 4
Yǒng píng Yongping county in Dali Bai autonomous prefecture, Yunnan Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Méi plums; prunes; surname ∼HSK 4
jiāng shī gyonshi; jiang shi; Chinese vampire; zombie ∼HSK 4
zǎi small thing, child; young animal ∼HSK 4
zhī know ∼HSK 4
i.d. tag, tally, symbol, charm ∼HSK 4
beautiful, magnificent, elegant ∼HSK 4
wěi tail, extremity; end, stern ∼HSK 4
Xiāng mutually ∼HSK 4
variant of ∼HSK 4
tāng soup of the day ∼HSK 4
xián dàn salty and unsalty (flavors); degree of saltiness; brackish (water) ∼HSK 4
bone; skeleton; frame, framework ∼HSK 4
zhè zhèn zi now; at present; at this juncture ∼HSK 4
shén me shì what matter ∼HSK 4
tuō diào to remove; to take off; to strip off; to discard; to shed; to come off; to fall off ∼HSK 4
shàng suǒ to go to the bathroom ∼HSK 4
gamble, play games; wide, broad ∼HSK 4
rǎo le sorry to interrupt you, but...; sorry to have bothered you; sorry, I have to go; (slang) (coined c. 2017) used facetiously to terminate a conversation (esp. online) when the other person is being insufferable ∼HSK 4
shì duō (dialect) store (loanword) ∼HSK 4
ròu sōng meat floss; shredded dried pork ∼HSK 4
jié hero; heroic, outstanding ∼HSK 4
xián salted fish ∼HSK 4
luò dān to be on one's own; to be left alone; to be left out ∼HSK 4
shuāng bèi twofold; double ∼HSK 4
yāo wéi waist measurement; girth ∼HSK 4
huì fǒu can or cannot; is it possible? ∼HSK 4
wéi yǒu only ∼HSK 4