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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fāng from where ∼HSK 6
bái white vinegar; plain vinegar ∼HSK 6
hún to bewitch; to enchant; to cast a spell over sb ∼HSK 6
guì honored guest ∼HSK 6
hōng dòng variant of ∼HSK 6
wéi shī as your teacher ∼HSK 6
shēng xiào one of the twelve animals symbolic of the earthly branches; animal from the Chinese zodiac ∼HSK 6
guī tortoise shell ∼HSK 6
cháng mìng to pay with one's life ∼HSK 6
zūn shī zhòng dào 尊: respect, revere, venerate; honor · 师: teacher, master, specialist · 重: heavy, weighty; double · 道: path, road, street; method, way ∼HSK 6
mài guāi to show off one's cleverness; (of sb who has received beneficial treatment) to profess to have been hard done by ∼HSK 6
hùn fàn to work for a living ∼HSK 6
yuàn bào 以: by means of; thereby, therefore; consider as; in order to · 怨: hatred, enmity, resentment · 报: report, tell, announce · 德: ethics, morality, virtue ∼HSK 6
chǎn chú to root out; to eradicate; to sweep away; to abolish ∼HSK 6
tán zi jug (earthenware with a big belly and a small opening) ∼HSK 6
piān yào to insist on doing sth; must do it, despite everything ∼HSK 6
jiāng lái lín imminent ∼HSK 6
xià fán (of immortals) to descend to the human world ∼HSK 6
léi diàn thunder and lightning ∼HSK 6
lìng 急: quick, quickly; urgent, pressing · 急: quick, quickly; urgent, pressing · 如: if, supposing; as if; like, as · 律: statute, principle, regulation ∼HSK 6
jiān zéi a traitor; a treacherous bandit ∼HSK 6
kāi pào to open fire ∼HSK 6
yáng qián foreign money; flat silver (former coinage); also written 銀元|银元 ∼HSK 6
沿 沿 yán along the way; on the way; area beside a road ∼HSK 6
jiě fēng qíng unromantic; insensitive ∼HSK 6
gōng píng jìng zhēng fair competition ∼HSK 6
yòng usage HSK 6
shè to absorb (nutrients etc); to assimilate; intake; to take a photograph of (a scene) HSK 6
zhōng wài Sino-foreign; Chinese-foreign; home and abroad HSK 6
zhí not worth HSK 6
xiáng lucky; auspicious; propitious HSK 6
wài tou outside; out HSK 6
mán tou steamed roll; steamed bun; steamed bread HSK 6
gèng shì even more (so) HSK 6
xué self-study; to study on one's own HSK 6
zào fǎn to rebel; to revolt HSK 6
acrobatics; jugglery; trick; ploy HSK 6
liàng to dry in the air; (fig.) to cold-shoulder HSK 6
shí to learn to read HSK 6
jiā méng to become a member of an alliance or union; to align; to join; participate HSK 6
xíng party; delegation HSK 6
day and night; around the clock HSK 6
duǎn piàn short film; video clip HSK 6
bēi zhe carrying on one's back HSK 6
广 guǎng kuò wide; vast HSK 6
gǒng to consolidate; consolidation; to strengthen HSK 6
zòu to play music; to achieve; to present a memorial to the emperor (old) HSK 6
zhū wèi (pron) everyone; Ladies and Gentlemen; Sirs HSK 6
miǎn de so as not to; so as to avoid HSK 6
jiù shì shuō in other words; that is HSK 6