The Guillotines

The Guillotines 2012

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In the time of the Qing Dynasty, the Emperor Yongzheng created a secret army known as the Guillotines. It was the job of the Guillotines to protect the Emperor by killing anyone who posed a threat to him or his rule. After 348 successful missions to eliminate their target, the 349th assignment proves to be their last.

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4.23 Intermediate Director Andrew Lau Wai-Keung 🍅 14%

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zào fǎn to rebel; to revolt HSK 6
dìng jià to set a price; to fix a price HSK 6
míng tomorrow HSK 6
pot; classifier for bottled liquid HSK 6
zhà yào explosive (material) HSK 6
to oppress; to repress; to constrict; oppression; stress (physics) HSK 6
tóu to bow the head; to yield; to give in HSK 6
chū dòng to start out on a trip; to dispatch troops HSK 6
zǒu to smuggle; to have an illicit affair HSK 6
zhuō to clutch; to grab; to capture HSK 6
jiā yuán home; homeland HSK 6
láo firm; sturdy; fold (for animals); sacrifice; prison HSK 6
fān foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance); classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc); classifier for situations: kind, sort HSK 6
huáng emperor HSK 6
chuàn to string together; to skewer; to connect wrongly; to gang up; to rove; string; bunch; skewer; classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of; to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus); to move across HSK 6
ér orphan HSK 6
fu to bully HSK 6
cóng never HSK 6
xún huán to cycle; to circulate; circle; loop HSK 6
lǎo shǔ rat; mouse HSK 6
guān mechanism; gear; machine-operated; office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body; stratagem; scheme; intrigue; plot; trick HSK 6
tiān xià land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule HSK 6
yǐn cáng to hide; to conceal; to mask; to shelter; to harbor (i.e. keep sth hidden); to hide oneself; to lie low; to nestle; hidden; implicit; private; covert; recessed (lighting) HSK 6
xié zhù to provide assistance; to aid HSK 6
jǐng a well; neat; orderly HSK 6
shí a period of time; a while; for a short while; temporary; momentary; at the same time HSK 6
chēng to support; to prop up; to push or move with a pole; to maintain; to open or unfurl; to fill to bursting point; brace; stay; support HSK 6
gān pole HSK 6
huàn zhě patient; sufferer HSK 6
jiàn not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing HSK 6
chú to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out; to divide; except; not including HSK 6
to kick; to play (e.g. soccer); (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship) HSK 6
pagoda; tower; minaret; stupa (abbr. loanword from Sanskrit tapo) HSK 6
shí period; phase HSK 6
a drop; to drip HSK 6
chéng nuò to promise; to undertake to do something; commitment HSK 6
zuì guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin HSK 6
fàn to violate; to offend; to assault; criminal; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) HSK 6
zhèn to press down; to calm; to subdue; to suppress; to guard; garrison; small town; to cool or chill (food or drinks) HSK 6
Zàng Tibet; abbr. for Xizang or Tibet Autonomous Region 藏 HSK 6
mìng life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc HSK 6
ruò to seem; like; as; if HSK 6
qīng (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts) HSK 6
wáng to die; death HSK 6
zài no more; no longer HSK 6
to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入声 HSK 6
zuō worker; workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person) HSK 6
(of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by HSK 6
(onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat HSK 6
and; to give; together with HSK 6