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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qǐng kàn please see...; vide ∼HSK 1
xiǎo běn (derog.) Japanese person; Jap ∼HSK 1
gēn rén to marry (of woman) ∼HSK 1
shì de yes, that's right; variant of ∼HSK 1
shàng tiān Heaven; Providence; God; the sky above; to fly skywards; (euphemism) to die; to pass away; the previous day (or days) ∼HSK 1
guì rén nobility; person of high rank ∼HSK 1
zhè tiān the past few days ∼HSK 1
zhēn rén a real person; Daoist spiritual master ∼HSK 1
rén by oneself (without assistance); alone (without company) ∼HSK 1
shì therefore; thus; so ∼HSK 1
lóu zi trouble; blunder ∼HSK 1
zěn me le What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? ∼HSK 1
shǒu juàn handkerchief ∼HSK 1
jiā de (old) wife ∼HSK 1
xiǎng unexpectedly; to one's surprise ∼HSK 1
zhù (verb complement) unable to firmly or securely (grasp, recall etc); repeatedly; continuously; constantly ∼HSK 1
huān happy; joyous; delighted; to like; to be fond of ∼HSK 1
zài hòu behind ∼HSK 1
hǎo wán amusing; fun; interesting ∼HSK 1
méi le to be dead; not to be, or cease to exist ∼HSK 1
zài na r (adverbial expression indicating that the attention of the subject of the verb is focused on what they are doing, not distracted by anything else); just...ing (and nothing else) ∼HSK 1
shén file of ten soldiers; mixed, miscellaneous ∼HSK 1
shàng shǒu to obtain; to master; overhand (serve etc); seat of honor ∼HSK 1
zhù shǒu to desist; to stop; to stay one's hand ∼HSK 1
lǎo yuǎn very far away ∼HSK 1
tiān the (rightful) emperor; "Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation) ∼HSK 1
chū qián to pay ∼HSK 1
xià your distinguished self; your majesty; sire ∼HSK 1
děng unequal; varied ∼HSK 1
zuó wǎn yesterday evening; last night ∼HSK 1
měi tiān every day ∼HSK 1
shuō shuo to say sth ∼HSK 1
nán de man ∼HSK 1
de woman ∼HSK 1
bìng not at all; by no means ∼HSK 1
to vary; to differ ∼HSK 1
míng not clear; unknown; to fail to understand ∼HSK 1
zhòng location of political, economic, military, or cultural importance (usu. not open to the general public); sensitive area ∼HSK 1
bān zi organized group; theatrical troupe ∼HSK 1
shí more than ten; a dozen or more ∼HSK 1
xiàn appear, manifest, become visible ∼HSK 1
穿 穿 chuān huí to put on (clothes); to put (clothes) back on ∼HSK 1
shǒu to wash one's hands; to go to the toilet ∼HSK 1
xíng five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水 ∼HSK 1
yuè lǎo matchmaker; go-between; same as ∼HSK 1
lái to bring; to fetch; to get ∼HSK 1
xíng shì to execute; to handle; behavior; action; conduct ∼HSK 1
duō duō many; much; a lot; lots and lots; more; even more ∼HSK 1
shí forty; 40 ∼HSK 1
jiǔ tiān the ninth heaven; the highest of the heavens ∼HSK 1