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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nián dào tóu all year round ∼HSK 2
huài chu harm; troubles HSK 2
kàn de chū can see; can tell ∼HSK 2
xīn li huà (to express one's) true feelings; what is on one's mind; secret mind ∼HSK 2
wán r erhua variant of 玩意; toy; thing; trick ∼HSK 2
zhàn zhù to stand HSK 2
jīn catty; (PRC) weight equal to 500 g; (Tw) weight equal to 600 g; (HK, Malaysia, Singapore) slightly over 604 g HSK 2
wài parts of the country other than where one is HSK 2
西 西 běi Northwest China (Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang) HSK 2
Dōng běi Northeast China; Manchuria HSK 2
huài rén bad person; villain HSK 2
chū to obtain (a result); to arrive at (a conclusion) HSK 2
kuài yào nearly at the point of (doing sth); about to (do sth) HSK 2
dào to get; to obtain HSK 2
zi chair HSK 2
ài ren spouse (PRC); lover (non-PRC) HSK 2
pái duì to line up HSK 2
shāng liang to consult; to talk over; to discuss HSK 2
dàn not only (... but also ...) HSK 2
píng cháng ordinary; common; usually; ordinarily HSK 2
tài tai married woman; Mrs.; Madam; wife HSK 2
cān guān to look around; to tour; to visit HSK 2
dìng not necessarily; maybe HSK 2
xìng family name; surname; to be surnamed HSK 2
greatly; enormously; (dialect) dad; uncle HSK 2
zǎo to bathe; to take a shower HSK 2
zhòng shì to attach importance to sth; to value HSK 2
fēn kāi to separate; to part HSK 2
hǎo rén good person; healthy person; person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle HSK 2
qīng nián youth; youthful years; young person; the young HSK 2
tíng chē to pull up (stop one's vehicle); to park; (of a machine) to stop working; to stall HSK 2
see 咱 HSK 2
quán all; entire HSK 2
chū mén to go out; to leave home; to go on a journey; away from home; (of a woman) to get married HSK 2
pèng dào to come across; to run into; to meet; to hit HSK 2
wǎn bowl; cup HSK 2
pèng to touch; to meet with; to bump HSK 2
便 便 biàn convenient HSK 2
píng shí ordinarily; in normal times; in peacetime HSK 2
rén visitor; guest; customer; client HSK 2
sòng gěi to send; to give as a present HSK 2
not equal to; not as good as; inferior to; it would be better to HSK 2
dào to mention; to raise (a subject); to refer to HSK 2
gǎn dòng to move (sb); to touch (sb emotionally); moving HSK 2
ān jìng quiet; peaceful; calm HSK 2
cǎo grass; straw; manuscript; draft (of a document); careless; rough HSK 2
fàng xīn to feel relieved; to feel reassured; to be at ease HSK 2
kàn way of looking at a thing; view; opinion HSK 2
jiǎo angle; corner; horn; horn-shaped; unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan, or 10 cents (a dime) HSK 2
ren adult; grownup; title of respect toward superiors HSK 2