The Flowers of War

The Flowers of War 2011

jīnlíng shísān chāi

A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.

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4.23 Intermediate Director Zhang Yimou 🍅 41%

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biǎo zi prostitute; whore ∼HSK 1
le no thanks (used to politely but informally decline) ∼HSK 1
zěn me le What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? ∼HSK 1
jiàn le to have disappeared; to be missing; nowhere to be found ∼HSK 1
wán xiào to joke; joke; jest ∼HSK 1
hǎo no good ∼HSK 1
jiāo huì to show; to teach ∼HSK 1
shén me de and so on; and so forth; and what not ∼HSK 1
shí more than ten; a dozen or more ∼HSK 1
yǒu qián well-off; wealthy ∼HSK 1
xiǎng yào to want to; to feel like; to fancy; to care for sb; desirous of ∼HSK 1
huì a moment; a while; in a moment; also pr. [yi1 hui3] ∼HSK 1
hǎo hello; hi ∼HSK 1
zhōng wèi lieutenant (navy); first lieutenant (army); subaltern ∼HSK 1
zài together ∼HSK 1
zuó wǎn yesterday evening; last night ∼HSK 1
yào fàn to beg (for food or money) ∼HSK 1
zhè zhǒng this kind of ∼HSK 1
hàn jiān traitor (to China) ∼HSK 1
ài shàng to fall in love with; to be in love with ∼HSK 1
zài (Tw) local; native (from Taiwanese 在地, Tai-lo pr. [tsāi-tē]) ∼HSK 1
zhù (verb complement) unable to firmly or securely (grasp, recall etc); repeatedly; continuously; constantly ∼HSK 1
prostitute; hooker ∼HSK 1
jūn army, military; soldiers, troops ∼HSK 1
zhuó zi bracelet ∼HSK 1
bái shì funeral; to explain (literary) ∼HSK 1
cóng jiào to work as a teacher ∼HSK 1
èr shí duō over 20 ∼HSK 1
péng legendary giant bird ∼HSK 1
de (taboo curse) damn it!; fucking ∼HSK 1
yòu shàng upper right ∼HSK 1
zuǒ shàng upper left ∼HSK 1
zhǒng one kind of; one type of ∼HSK 1
fàng kāi to let go; to release ∼HSK 1
lǎo yuǎn very far away ∼HSK 1
shì (formal) this day; that day ∼HSK 1
lái zhe auxiliary showing sth happened in the past ∼HSK 1
zuó yesterday; in former times, past ∼HSK 1
xiǎo ge little boy who is older than another young child (e.g. his playmate); (neologism c. 2017) (slang) amiable form of address for a young man of about one's own age or a little older ∼HSK 1
xíng hǎo to be charitable; to do a good deed ∼HSK 1
zhòng to hit the target; (fig.) to hit the nail on the head ∼HSK 1
gēn zhe to follow after; immediately afterwards ∼HSK 1
diǎn shuǐ to skim; lightly touching the water (as the dragonfly in the idiom 蜻蜓點水|蜻蜓点水); skin-deep ∼HSK 1
Shī teacher, master, specialist ∼HSK 1
you and I; everyone; all of us (in society); we (people in general) ∼HSK 1
zháo no need; need not ∼HSK 1
huà shuō It is said that... (at the start of a narrative); to discuss; to recount ∼HSK 1
zài qián ahead; formerly; in the past ∼HSK 1
zài hòu behind ∼HSK 1
hòu mén back door; back gate; (fig.) back-door influence; under-the-table dealings; anus; (computing) backdoor ∼HSK 1