Shanghai Triad

Shanghai Triad 1995

摇啊摇，摇到外婆桥 yáo ā yáo， yáo dào wàipó qiáo

Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss of the Tang Triad, constantly threatened by his enemies, both those he knows and those lurking in the shadows.

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3.69 Beginner Director Zhang Yimou 🍅 90%

Cast

Gong Li Gong Li Bijou / Xiao Jinbao Li Baotian Li Baotian Boss Tang Laoda Sun Chun Sun Chun Song Laoer Li Xuejian Li Xuejian Uncle Liushu Liu Jiang Liu Jiang Fat Yu Fu Biao Fu Biao Laosan Chen Shu Chen Shu Shiye Wang Xiaoxiao Shuisheng Jiang Baoying Jiang Baoying Cuihua Ngai Tsang-Siu

Vocabulary

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舌头 舌頭 shé tou tongue; enemy soldier captured for the purpose of extracting information HSK 6
信用 信用 xìn yòng trustworthiness; (commerce) credit; (literary) to trust and appoint HSK 6
洋 洋 yáng ocean; vast; foreign; silver dollar or coin HSK 6
挨 挨 āi in order; in sequence; close to; adjacent to HSK 6
番 番 fān foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance); classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc); classifier for situations: kind, sort HSK 6
掏 掏 tāo to fish out (from pocket); to scoop HSK 6
尖 尖 jiān pointed; tapering; sharp; (of a sound) shrill; piercing; (of one's hearing, sight etc) sharp; acute; keen; to make (one's voice) shrill; sharp point; tip; the best of sth; the cream of the crop HSK 6
出事 出事 chū shì to have an accident; to meet with a mishap HSK 6
妙 妙 miào clever; wonderful HSK 6
铺 鋪 pū to spread; to display; to set up; (old) holder for door-knocker HSK 6
从没 從沒 cóng méi never (in the past); never did HSK 6
天下 天下 tiān xià land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule HSK 6
算了 算了 suàn le let it be; let it pass; forget about it HSK 6
当天 當天 dāng tiān on that day HSK 6
趟 䠀 tàng classifier for times, round trips or rows; a time; a trip HSK 6
档 檔 dàng official records; grade (of goods); file; records; shelves; slot; gap; crosspiece; classifier for crosspieces; classifier for events, affairs etc; Taiwan pr. [dǎng] HSK 6
踩 跴 cǎi to step on; to tread; to stamp; to press a pedal; to pedal (a bike); (online) to downvote HSK 6
偏 偏 piān to lean; to slant; oblique; prejudiced; to deviate from average; to stray from the intended line; stubbornly; contrary to expectations HSK 6
野 埜 yě field; plain; open space; limit; boundary; rude; feral HSK 6
埋 埋 mái to bury HSK 6
料 料 liào material; stuff; grain; feed; to expect; to anticipate; to guess HSK 6
托 托 tuō prop; support (for weight); rest (e.g. arm rest); thanks to; to hold in one's hand; to support in one's palm; to give; to base; to commit; to set; torr (unit of pressure) HSK 6
闭 閉 bì to close; to stop up; to shut; to obstruct HSK 6
挖 挖 wā to dig; to excavate; to scoop out HSK 6
扣 釦 kòu button HSK 6
再说 再說 zài shuō to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides HSK 6
算是 算是 suàn shì considered to be; at last HSK 6
觉 覺 jiào a nap; a sleep HSK 6
罪 罪 zuì guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin HSK 6
混 混 hùn to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless HSK 6
岛 島 dǎo island HSK 6
理 理 lǐ texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up HSK 6
犯 犯 fàn to violate; to offend; to assault; criminal; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) HSK 6
藏 藏 Zàng Tibet; abbr. for Xizang or Tibet Autonomous Region 藏 HSK 6
命 命 mìng life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc HSK 6
清 清 qīng (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts) HSK 6
啦 啦 lā (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat HSK 6
混蛋 混蛋 hún dàn scoundrel; bastard; hoodlum; wretch Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
色鬼 色鬼 sè guǐ lecher; pervert Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
彼此彼此 彼此彼此 bǐ cǐ - bǐ cǐ (idiom) you and me both; that makes two of us Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
臭 臭 chòu stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) Xiehouyu HSK 5
收拾 收拾 shōu shi to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb Colloquialism HSK 5
老爷 老爺 lǎo ye master, sir ∼HSK 5
娇 嬌 jiāo seductive and loveable; tender ∼HSK 5
乡巴佬 鄉巴佬 xiāng bā lǎo (derog.) villager; hick; bumpkin ∼HSK 5
滩 灘 tān bank, a sandbar, shoal; rapids ∼HSK 5
翠 翠 cuì color green; kingfisher ∼HSK 5
嫂 嫂 sǎo (bound form) older brother's wife; sister-in-law ∼HSK 5
摘下 摘下 zhāi xià to take off; to remove (one's hat, a door from its hinges etc); to pick (a piece of fruit from a tree etc); (sports) to pick off (a rebound etc) ∼HSK 5
乡下人 鄉下人 xiāng xià rén country folk; rustic; rural folk ∼HSK 5