Temptress Moon

Temptress Moon 1996

风月 fēngyuè

Set in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest daughter, Ruyi, is brought up as a servant to her opium-addicted father and brother. Meanwhile, her brother-in-law Zhongliang has a successful, if illegal, career seducing and blackmailing married women in the city. When he comes to Ruyi's home the two fall in love, and trouble ensues.

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3.63 Beginner Director Chen Kaige 🍅 62%

Cast

Leslie Cheung Leslie Cheung Yu Zhongliang Gong Li Gong Li Pang Ruyi Kevin Lin Kevin Lin Pang Duanwu He Saifei He Saifei Yu Xiuyi Chang Shih Chang Shih Li Niangjiu Liankun Lin Liankun Lin Pang An Ko Hsiang-Ting Ko Hsiang-Ting Elder Qi Jie Zhou Jie Zhou The Woman of Zephyr Lane Zhou Yemang Zhou Yemang Pang Zhengda Lei Ren Young Yu Zhongliang

Vocabulary

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讨 討 tǎo to invite; to provoke; to demand or ask for; to send armed forces to suppress; to denounce or condemn; to marry (a woman); to discuss or study HSK 7
都会 都會 dū huì city; metropolis HSK 7
嫉妒 嫉妒 jí dù to be jealous of; to envy HSK 7
少女 少女 shào nǚ girl; young lady HSK 7
不准 不准 bù zhǔn not to allow; to forbid; to prohibit HSK 7
顺便 順便 shùn biàn conveniently; in passing; without much extra effort HSK 7
娶 娶 qǔ to take a wife; to marry (a woman) HSK 7
乖 乖 guāi (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal HSK 7
恶 惡 ě used in 恶心 HSK 7
孤单 孤單 gū dān lone; lonely; loneliness HSK 7
蛮 蠻 mán barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless HSK 7
竟 竟 jìng unexpectedly; actually; to go so far as to; indeed HSK 7
穿着 穿著 chuān zhuó attire; clothes; dress HSK 7
革命 革命 gé mìng to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning); revolution; revolutionary; to revolt (against sb or sth); to revolutionize (sth); (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun的命) HSK 7
盯 盯 dīng to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at HSK 7
嫁 嫁 jià (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) HSK 7
注 註 zhù to register; to annotate; note; comment HSK 7
哎 哎 āi hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) HSK 7
不知 不知 bù zhī not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) HSK 7
文 文 wén language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 HSK 7
主 主 zhǔ owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) HSK 7
未 未 wèi not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210° HSK 7
及 及 jí and; to reach; up to; in time for HSK 7
钟灵毓秀 鍾靈毓秀 zhōng líng yù xiù (of a place) endowed with a natural beauty that nurtures people of talent (idiom) Idiom ∼HSK 6
百炼成钢 百煉成鋼 bǎi liàn chéng gāng to be tempered into a steel Idiom ∼HSK 6
开宗明义 開宗明義 kāi zōng míng yì to declare at the outset (idiom) Idiom ∼HSK 6
寻欢作乐 尋歡作樂 xún huān zuò lè pleasure seeking (idiom); life of dissipation Idiom ∼HSK 6
姨奶奶 姨奶奶 yí nǎi nai father's mother's sister (coll.); great aunt Colloquialism ∼HSK 6
甭管 甭管 béng guǎn (coll.) regardless of; no matter (where, who etc) Colloquialism ∼HSK 6
关你屁事 關你屁事 guān nǐ pì shì (coll.) None of your goddamn business!; Mind your own business! Colloquialism ∼HSK 6
就算 就算 jiù suàn (coll.) even if Colloquialism HSK 6
嘛 嘛 má used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? Colloquialism HSK 6
祠堂 祠堂 cí táng ancestral hall; memorial hall ∼HSK 6
主子 主子 zhǔ zi Master (term used by servant); Your Majesty; operator (of machine) ∼HSK 6
过继 過繼 guò jì to adopt; to give for adoption (usually to a childless relative) ∼HSK 6
大嫂 大嫂 dà sǎo older brother's wife; sister-in-law; elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) ∼HSK 6
反叛 反叛 fǎn pàn to rebel; to revolt ∼HSK 6
娘的 孃的 niáng de same as ∼HSK 6
磕头 磕頭 kē tóu to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground) ∼HSK 6
姨太太 姨太太 yí tài tai concubine ∼HSK 6
藏书 藏書 cáng shū to collect books; library collection ∼HSK 6
新娘子 新娘子 xīn niáng zi bride ∼HSK 6
砒霜 砒霜 pī shuāng white arsenic; arsenic trioxide As2O3 ∼HSK 6
铜钱 銅錢 tóng qián copper coin (round with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China) ∼HSK 6
仙逝 仙逝 xiān shì to die; to depart this mortal coil ∼HSK 6
照理 照理 zhào lǐ according to reason; usually; in the normal course of events; to attend to ∼HSK 6
废人 廢人 fèi rén handicapped person; useless person ∼HSK 6
女公子 女公子 nǚ gōng zǐ noble lady; (honorific) your daughter ∼HSK 6
侍奉 侍奉 shì fèng to wait upon; to serve; to attend to sb's needs ∼HSK 6
岂不 豈不 qǐ bù how couldn't...?; wouldn't it...? ∼HSK 6