The Dream Factory

The Dream Factory 1997

jiǎfāng fāng

Four friends come up with an unusual idea to make some money and have fun doing it. For a small fee, they will impersonate and act out any character role for their customers. In the course of executing this novel service, they encounter a whole spectrum of people in society, finding ways to genuinely help them boost their morale and overcome their fears, while gaining unusual and new insights into the human condition.

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4.44 Intermediate Director Feng Xiaogang IMDb 7.3

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kuī de fortunately; luckily; (sarcastic) fancy that, how fortunate! ∼HSK 5
zhàng tent; account ∼HSK 5
jiǎn huǎn to slow down; to retard ∼HSK 5
shè ford stream, wade across ∼HSK 5
kōng fàn vague and general; not specific; shallow; empty ∼HSK 5
zāo jian to waste; to spoil; to destroy; to insult grievously ∼HSK 5
kǎn upright and strong; amiable ∼HSK 5
to summon one's (courage, faith etc); to puff up (one's cheeks etc); to bulge; to swell out ∼HSK 5
chéng (bound form) sincere; authentic; (literary) really; truly ∼HSK 5
jiǎ first two of the ten Heavenly Stems ∼HSK 5
rán zāi hài natural disaster ∼HSK 5
qiáo jiàn to see ∼HSK 5
chí go quickly or swiftly; hurry ∼HSK 5
ǎn I, me (northern dialect) ∼HSK 5
zěn how (variant of 怎么) ∼HSK 5
fěi bandits, robbers, gangsters ∼HSK 5
yǎn benefit performance; charity show ∼HSK 5
Tuò expand; open up; support or push ∼HSK 5
shàng bèi zi one's ancestors; past generations; a former incarnation ∼HSK 5
shēn míng to have a high notion of one's duty; to be highly principled ∼HSK 5
píng shén me (spoken) why?; for which reason? ∼HSK 5
zuì to get drunk ∼HSK 5
shè shǒu archer; shooter; marksman; (football etc) striker ∼HSK 5
cuò lòu error and negligence ∼HSK 5
xióng māo giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) HSK 5
Yuán dàn New Year's Day HSK 5
nián qián by the end of the year; at the end of the year; shortly before New Year HSK 5
xié shū contract; protocol HSK 5
wén literature and art HSK 5
zhì to govern; to administer; to manage; to control; governance HSK 5
shān mountain area HSK 5
zāi disaster; calamity HSK 5
shēn whole body; from head to toe; single person; a suit of clothes HSK 5
xiāo fèi zhě consumer HSK 5
rén manpower; labor power HSK 5
xiē to rest; to take a break; to stop; to halt; (dialect) to sleep; a moment; a short while HSK 5
zài (not) any more HSK 5
dài region; district HSK 5
tao grape HSK 5
mào courtesy; politeness; manners; courteous; polite HSK 5
zhōng zhǐ to stop; to terminate HSK 5
shì wéi to view as; to see as; to consider to be; to deem HSK 5
xià as follows HSK 5
shā desert HSK 5
dǎn gall bladder; courage; guts; gall; inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos) HSK 5
chǔ to penalize; to punish HSK 5
rén jiān the human world; the earth HSK 5
zhēn truth HSK 5
xián idle; unoccupied; leisure HSK 5
qiān to sign (one's name); signature HSK 5