The Killer

The Killer 1972

大杀手 dà shāshǒu

Chiao Tzu Wei hires a killer under the premise that the local government (run by the local kung fu school) is corrupt and extorting the people of the town. The killer happens to be Hsieh Chun (aka Hsiao Hu) who left town ten years ago. (When Hsieh Chun opens up a suitcase full of knives, you know that there is going to be tons of killing!). Thinking that the local kung fu school is bad, he goes over there to fight them. There is some reuniting of lost friends and some love between two of them. The bad guys are constantly double crossing everyone and this leads to total mayhem and carnage. The final fight scene (which is actually several fight scenes going from one to the next) is incredible, especially the blood soaked finale between the evil Japanese leader of the opium ring and the two brothers.

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Vocabulary

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团体 團體 tuán tǐ group; organization; team HSK 3
整天 整天 zhěng tiān all day long; whole day HSK 3
年纪 年紀 nián jì age HSK 3
才能 才能 cái néng talent; ability; capacity HSK 3
只好 只好 zhǐ hǎo to have no other option but to ...; to have to; to be forced to HSK 3
看起来 看起來 kàn qǐ lai seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appear to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be HSK 3
赶到 趕到 gǎn dào to hurry (to some place) HSK 3
赶快 趕快 gǎn kuài quickly; at once HSK 3
人才 人才 rén cái talent; talented person; looks; attractive looks HSK 3
造 造 zào to make; to build; to manufacture; to invent; to fabricate; to go to; party (in a lawsuit or legal agreement); crop; classifier for crops HSK 3
命运 命運 mìng yùn fate; destiny HSK 3
自从 自從 zì cóng since (a time); ever since HSK 3
搬 搬 bān to move (i.e. relocate oneself); to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky); to shift; to copy indiscriminately HSK 3
恐怕 恐怕 kǒng pà fear; to dread; I'm afraid that...; perhaps; maybe HSK 3
互相 互相 hù xiāng each other; mutually; mutual HSK 3
防 防 fáng to protect; to defend; to guard against; to prevent HSK 3
反正 反正 fǎn zhèng anyway; in any case; to come over from the enemy's side HSK 3
任 任 rèn to assign; to appoint; to take up a post; office; responsibility; to let; to allow; to give free rein to; no matter (how, what etc); classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友) HSK 3
证据 證據 zhèng jù evidence; proof; testimony HSK 3
千万 千萬 qiān wàn ten million; countless; many; one must by all means HSK 3
观察 觀察 guān chá to observe; to watch; to survey HSK 3
意外 意外 yì wài unexpected; accident; mishap HSK 3
慢慢 慢慢 màn màn slowly HSK 3
奇怪 奇怪 qí guài strange; odd; to marvel; to be baffled HSK 3
大概 大概 dà gài roughly; probably; rough; approximate; about; general idea HSK 3
制造 製造 zhì zào to manufacture; to make HSK 3
团 團 tuán round; lump; ball; to roll into a ball; to gather; regiment; group; society; classifier for a lump or a soft mass: wad (of paper), ball (of wool), cloud (of smoke) HSK 3
配 配 pèi to join; to fit; to mate; to mix; to match; to deserve; to make up (a prescription); to allocate HSK 3
满足 滿足 mǎn zú to satisfy; to meet (the needs of); satisfied; content HSK 3
龙 龍 lóng dragon; imperial HSK 3
麻烦 麻煩 má fan trouble; inconvenience; inconvenient; troublesome; annoying; to bother sb; to put sb to trouble HSK 3
姑娘 姑娘 gū niang girl; young woman; young lady; daughter; paternal aunt (old) HSK 3
代 代 dài to substitute; to act on behalf of others; to replace; generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon HSK 3
系 係 xì to connect; to relate to; to tie up; to bind; to be (literary) HSK 3
准 准 zhǔn to allow; to grant; in accordance with; in the light of HSK 3
外面 外面 wài miàn outside (also pr. [wài mian] for this sense); surface; exterior; external appearance HSK 3
刀 刀 Dāo surname Dao HSK 3
集中 集中 jí zhōng to concentrate; to centralize; to focus; centralized; concentrated; to put together HSK 3
追 追 duī to sculpt; to carve; musical instrument (old) HSK 3
上面 上面 shàng miàn on top of; above-mentioned; also pr. [shàng mian] HSK 3
从来 從來 cóng lái always; at all times; never (if used in negative sentence) HSK 3
老板 老闆 lǎo bǎn boss; business proprietor HSK 3
对方 對方 duì fāng the other person; the other side; the other party HSK 3
难道 難道 nán dào don't tell me ...; could it be that...? HSK 3
久 久 jiǔ (long) time; (long) duration of time HSK 3
类 類 lèi kind; type; class; category; similar; like; to resemble HSK 3
本来 本來 běn lái original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course HSK 3
仍然 仍然 réng rán still; as before; yet HSK 3
各 各 gè each; every HSK 3
深 㴱 shēn deep (lit. and fig.) HSK 3