The Message

The Message 2009

fēngshēng

After a series of assassinations in Nanking, a Japanese spy master gathers a group of suspects in a mansion, then a tense cat-and-mouse game erupts as the Chinese agent tries to keep his or her identity a secret.

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4.57 Intermediate Director Chen Kuofu, Gao Qunshu IMDb 7.4

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zhāo (chess) move; trick; all right!; (dialect) to add HSK 1
běn rén Japanese person or people Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Lǎo Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism; the sacred book of Daoism, by Laozi Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Nán jīng Nanjing, sub-provincial city and capital of Jiangsu Province; Nanjing, capital of the Ming dynasty (1368-1421) and of the Republic of China (1927-1937 and 1946-1949) Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
běn Japan Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Gòng chǎn dǎng Communist Party Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Shí yuè October; tenth month (of the lunar year) Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Dōng Eastern Wu (222-280); the southern state of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, founded by Sun Quan 孫權|孙权 Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Měi guó United States; USA; US Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Tái wān variant of Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
shéi zhī dào God knows...; Who would have imagined...? ∼HSK 1
shì no; is not; not ∼HSK 1
ge a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) ∼HSK 1
fàng kāi to let go; to release ∼HSK 1
zhège (pronoun) this; (adjective) this ∼HSK 1
zhè shì 这: this, the, here · 是: indeed, yes, right; to be; demonstrative pronoun, this, that ∼HSK 1
rén those on our side; ourselves; one's own people; one of us ∼HSK 1
jūn army, military; soldiers, troops ∼HSK 1
néng cannot; must not; should not ∼HSK 1
zhǒng one kind of; one type of ∼HSK 1
ge that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler ∼HSK 1
zhè zhǒng this kind of ∼HSK 1
first; first time; once; (math.) linear (of degree one) ∼HSK 1
zěn me le What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? ∼HSK 1
yǒu diǎn a little ∼HSK 1
xiǎo bái (slang) novice; greenhorn; (old) (slang) fool; idiot; abbr. for, pretty boy ∼HSK 1
le no thanks (used to politely but informally decline) ∼HSK 1
rén by oneself (without assistance); alone (without company) ∼HSK 1
jiā de (old) wife ∼HSK 1
tiān that day; the other day ∼HSK 1
bìng not at all; by no means ∼HSK 1
hǎo no good ∼HSK 1
huà shuō It is said that... (at the start of a narrative); to discuss; to recount ∼HSK 1
de woman ∼HSK 1
huí běn to recoup one's investment ∼HSK 1
hǎo hello; hi ∼HSK 1
ge which; who ∼HSK 1
zǒu chū to leave (a room etc); to go out through (a door etc) ∼HSK 1
(interjection) fuck you; (intensifier) fucking ∼HSK 1
the first time; first; number one ∼HSK 1
jiàn le to have disappeared; to be missing; nowhere to be found ∼HSK 1
shàng to start on a journey; to be on one's way ∼HSK 1
cóng lái méi have never; has never ∼HSK 1
shàng qián to advance; to step forward ∼HSK 1
rén son, child; KangXi radical 10 ∼HSK 1
xià (after a verb) a bit; a little (indicating brief duration, or softening the tone, or suggesting giving sth a try); all at once; suddenly ∼HSK 1
méi shì it's not important; it's nothing; never mind; to have nothing to do; to be free; to be all right (out of danger or trouble) ∼HSK 1
Míng bright, light, brilliant; clear ∼HSK 1
lǎo dao experienced and careful ∼HSK 1
nín hǎo hello (polite) ∼HSK 1