The Great Magician

The Great Magician 2011

shùshī

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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ya (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) HSK 4
this; these HSK 4
xuǎn to select; to pick; choice; option; alternative HSK 4
not to have; no; none; not; to lack; un-; -less HSK 4
liǎo jiě to understand; to realize; to find out HSK 4
zhī hòu after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then HSK 4
dān xīn anxious; worried; uneasy; to worry; to be anxious HSK 4
què but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though HSK 4
ér and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) HSK 4
hòu huì yǒu I'm sure we'll meet again some day. (idiom); Hope to see you again. Idiom ∼HSK 3
xiào liǎn all smiles; smiling mischievously or ingratiatingly Idiom ∼HSK 3
bié yǒu yòng xīn to have an ulterior motive (idiom) Idiom ∼HSK 3
zhǎo to court death; to take a big risk Xiehouyu ∼HSK 3
xīn shàng rén sweetheart; one's beloved Xiehouyu ∼HSK 3
luàn lái to act recklessly; to mess around Xiehouyu ∼HSK 3
méi yòng useless Xiehouyu HSK 3
qīn parent; one's own (flesh and blood); relative; related; marriage; bride; close; intimate; in person; first-hand; in favor of; pro-; to kiss; (Internet slang) dear Xiehouyu HSK 3
niú (coll.) leading light; superstar; badass; (coll.) higher-priced model of Lamborghini Colloquialism ∼HSK 3
xiǎo niú calf; (coll.) lower-priced model of Lamborghini Colloquialism ∼HSK 3
yào shi (coll.) if Colloquialism HSK 3
shū to lose; to be beaten; (bound form) to transport; (literary) to donate; to contribute; (coll.) to enter (a password) Colloquialism HSK 3
xuè blood; colloquial pr. [xiě] Colloquialism HSK 3
guǎn to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards Colloquialism HSK 3
qìn Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916), American British inventor of the Maxim machine gun Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
chéng ancient city Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
gàn what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth? ∼HSK 3
enemy, foe, rival; resist ∼HSK 3
jué in no way; not in the least; absolutely not ∼HSK 3
pāi diàn yǐng to make a movie ∼HSK 3
bié guǎn no matter (who, what etc) ∼HSK 3
使 使 shǐ chū to use; to exert ∼HSK 3
dào shí hòu when the moment comes; at that time ∼HSK 3
tán tán to discuss; to have a chat ∼HSK 3
chéng qīn to get married ∼HSK 3
liú (said by departing guest) no need to see me out ∼HSK 3
bǎo zhù to preserve; to save ∼HSK 3
kàn xiàng to tell fortune by reading the subject's facial features ∼HSK 3
ěr eyes and ears; sb's attention or notice; information; knowledge; spies ∼HSK 3
xīn fáng guardedness; wariness; mental defenses ∼HSK 3
shì shàng on earth ∼HSK 3
jīng chéng capital of a country ∼HSK 3
enchantment; magic ∼HSK 3
guǎn variant of ∼HSK 3
Zhū various, all, these; surname ∼HSK 3
huó huó while still alive; simply; totally ∼HSK 3
to infuriate; to be furious; to die from an excess of anger ∼HSK 3
yín silver foil ∼HSK 3
zhèng shǐ the 24 or 25 official dynastic histories; true history, as opposed to fictional adaptation or popular legends ∼HSK 3
zhāng zuǐ to open one's mouth (to speak, esp. to make a request); to gape ∼HSK 3
jiù old calendar; the Chinese lunar calendar; same as ∼HSK 3