The Great Magician

The Great Magician 2011

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In the years after the Revolution, China broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords, who are busy fighting each other. One warlord has imprisoned a girl and wants her to be his seventh wife, but he's too honorable to force her. The local revolutionaries wants to kill him and bring back the republic. But when a stranger returns from abroad with mastery of magic to recover the girl he loved, who is tricking whom and who will win at the end?

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5.03 Advanced Director Derek Yee IMDb 5.9

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shén me rén what kind of person ∼HSK 4
Xiāng mutually ∼HSK 4
wáng ye prince; marquis; nobleman ∼HSK 4
shī shǒu a slip; miscalculation; unwise move; accidentally; by mistake; to lose control; to be defeated ∼HSK 4
zhǎo pawn; lackey; accomplice (in crime); collaborator; henchman; claws and teeth ∼HSK 4
zi hard times ∼HSK 4
rub, scour, grind; friction ∼HSK 4
zhǎng guān senior official; senior officer; commanding officer; sir (term of address for senior officer) ∼HSK 4
shǒu severed head ∼HSK 4
record, annal, historical account ∼HSK 4
yán míng strict and impartial; firm ∼HSK 4
diāo mín (derogatory) unruly people ∼HSK 4
jié hūn niàn wedding anniversary ∼HSK 4
break wind; fart; buttocks ∼HSK 4
xiāng to meet together; to assemble ∼HSK 4
huǒ shāo to set fire to; to burn down; burning hot; baked cake ∼HSK 4
bone; skeleton; frame, framework ∼HSK 4
shǔ lái bǎo folk theater consisting of recitation accompanied by clapper board rhythm ∼HSK 4
cǎi hue, color; variegated colors ∼HSK 4
xìng huì nice to meet you ∼HSK 4
Chéng inherit, receive; succeed ∼HSK 4
bīng art of war; military strategy and tactics ∼HSK 4
gamble, play games; wide, broad ∼HSK 4
méi bàn there is nothing to be done; one can't do anything about it ∼HSK 4
sān bèi triple ∼HSK 4
chū bīng to send troops ∼HSK 4
shuài (old) commanding general; commander-in-chief; (Qing dynasty) title for a governor-general (provincial military governor) ∼HSK 4
dēng chǎng to go on stage; fig. to appear on the scene; used in advertising to mean new product ∼HSK 4
shì wèi Imperial bodyguard ∼HSK 4
ān wēi safety and danger; safety ∼HSK 4
bīng army riffraff; army ruffian; soldier of fortune ∼HSK 4
xià luò míng unaccounted; unknown whereabouts ∼HSK 4
hòu fāng the rear; far behind the front line ∼HSK 4
chāo jiā to search a house and confiscate possessions ∼HSK 4
lǎo shào xián suitable for young and old ∼HSK 4
jǐng wèi to stand guard over; (security) guard ∼HSK 4
àn dào secret passage; secret tunnel ∼HSK 4
guó bīng qiáng prosperous country with military might ∼HSK 4
belly; abdomen; bowels ∼HSK 4
jiāng rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf.); ( ∼HSK 4
quán none; completely without ∼HSK 4
cái guài it'd be a wonder if... (following a verb phrase that is usually negative) ∼HSK 4
zhuàn angular velocity; number of revolutions per minute ∼HSK 4
kuí shǒu chief; first; brightest and best ∼HSK 4
jiǔ yán huān to drink and chat merrily (idiom) ∼HSK 4
sōng kǒu to heave a sigh of relief ∼HSK 4
luò de ending up as; leading to; resulting in; in total ∼HSK 4
dìng néng to be definitely able (to do sth) ∼HSK 4
yóu lián shēng ài to develop love for sb out of pity for them ∼HSK 4
xīn jié a matter that gnaws at one's mind; preoccupation; sore point; rancor ∼HSK 4