The Bullet Vanishes 2012
消失的子弹
One rainy night in an arms factory near Shanghai, a young female worker accused of stealing a box of bullets from the ruthless Boss Ding is violently killed in a game of Russian roulette. Half a month later, a series of inexplicable deaths takes place in the factory, where the victims are shot but no bullets are found. Rumors of a deadly curse begin to spread in the factory, terrorizing the workers there. So, eccentric police inspector Song Donglu and his hot-blooded, gunslinging partner Guo Zhui are sent in to investigate the mystery of the phantom bullets...
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Vocabulary
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| 回音 迴音 | echo; reply; turn (ornament in music) | |
| 死者 死者 | the dead; the deceased | |
| 起火 起火 | to catch fire; to cook; to get angry | |
| 谋杀 謀殺 | to murder; to assassinate; intentional homicide | |
| 杨 楊 | willow, poplar, aspen; surname | |
| 民 民 | people, subjects, citizens | |
| 笔录 筆錄 | to put down in writing; to take down notes; transcript; record | |
| 世上 世上 | on earth | |
| 破绽 破綻 | split seam; (fig.) flaw; weak point | |
| 先下手为强 先下手為強 | (idiom) strike first to gain the upper hand | |
| 不愿 不願 | unwilling | |
| 几时 幾時 | at what time?; when? | |
| 去死 去死 | go to hell!; drop dead! | |
| 一般人 一般人 | average person | |
| 张开 張開 | to open up; to spread; to extend | |
| 干活 幹活 | to work; to be employed | |
| 过世 過世 | to die; to pass away | |
| 有办法 有辦法 | can find methods; resourceful; creative | |
| 赶走 趕走 | to drive out; to turn back | |
| 感觉到 感覺到 | to feel; to sense; to detect; to perceive; to become aware | |
| 吉 吉 | lucky, propitious, good | |
| 资 資 | property; wealth; capital | |
| 重演 重演 | to recur (of events, esp. adverse ones); to repeat (a performance) | |
| 天人合一 天人合一 | oneness of heaven and humanity; the theory that man is an integral part of nature | |
| 得直 得直 | (HK, Sg) (law) to have one's appeal allowed; to win an appeal | |
| 受热 受熱 | heated; sunstroke | |
| 退后 退後 | to stand back; to go back (in time); to yield; to make concessions | |
| 绿帽子 綠帽子 | green hat (figuratively, a symbol of being a cuckold) | |
| 争相 爭相 | to fall over each other in their eagerness to... | |
| 胜过 勝過 | to excel; to surpass | |
| 连环 連環 | chain | |
| 源 源 | spring; source, head; surname | |
| 活人 活人 | living person | |
| 把子 把子 | handle | |
| 火场 火場 | the scene of a fire | |
| 骗局 騙局 | a swindle; a trap; a racket; a scam | |
| 再造 再造 | to give a new lease of life; to reconstruct; to reform; to rework; to recycle; to reproduce (copies, or offspring); restoration; restructuring | |
| 把酒 把酒 | to raise one's wine cup | |
| 帽 㡌 | hat, cap; cap-like tops | |
| 难保 難保 | hard to say; can't guarantee; difficult to protect; difficult to preserve | |
| 指使 指使 | to incite; to prompt (sb to do sth) | |
| 心跳 心跳 | heartbeat; pulse | |
| 木头 木頭 | slow-witted; blockhead; log (of wood, timber etc) | |
| 解开 解開 | to untie; to undo; to solve (a mystery) | |
| 不安 不安 | unpeaceful; unstable; uneasy; disturbed; restless; worried | |
| 吵架 吵架 | to quarrel; to have a row; quarrel | |
| 屋子 屋子 | house; room | |
| 往往 往往 | usually; in many cases; more often than not | |
| 属 屬 | category; genus (taxonomy); family members; dependents; to belong to; subordinate to; affiliated with; be born in the year of (one of the 12 animals); to be; to prove to be; to constitute | |
| 纪录 紀錄 | variant of 记录 (but in Taiwan, not for the verb sense "to record") |