The Way of the Dragon

The Way of the Dragon 1972

měng lóng guō jiāng

After a Chinese restaurant in Rome is threatened by the mafia, who will stop at nothing to acquire the property, the owner recruits a family friend in Hong Kong, kung fu expert Tang Lung, to help them defend their business.

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3.74 Beginner Director Bruce Lee 🍅 88%

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guàn jūn champion HSK 5
lìng to order; to command; an order; warrant; writ; to cause; to make sth happen; virtuous; honorific title; season; government position (old); type of short song or poem HSK 5
abbr. for 哈萨克斯坦, Kazakhstan; abbr. for 哈尔滨, Harbin HSK 5
shēng sound; voice; tone; noise; reputation; classifier for sounds HSK 5
his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it) HSK 5
gǎo to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of HSK 5
jiāng will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) HSK 5
(prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very HSK 5
nao bustling with noise and excitement; lively Xiehouyu HSK 4
bái bái (loanword) bye-bye; also pr. [bai1 bai1] etc; (coll.) to part ways (with sb); (fig.) to have nothing further to do (with sb or sth) Colloquialism ∼HSK 4
lǎo (coll.) wife Colloquialism HSK 4
shāo to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head Colloquialism HSK 4
Xīn jiè New Territories (in Hong Kong) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
kǒu population (counted as number of households for census or taxation); registered residence; residence permit; (in Hong Kong and Macau) bank account Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Zhōng shì Chinese style Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
gōng Wugong County in Xianyang, Shaanxi Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Qīng huá abbr. for Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Bǎo BMW (car company) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
běn guǐ zi Japanese devil (common term of abuse in wartime China and in subsequent writing) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
méi xiǎng dào didn't expect HSK 4
shì taxi (loanword) ∼HSK 4
military; martial, warlike ∼HSK 4
break wind; fart; buttocks ∼HSK 4
wěi tail, extremity; end, stern ∼HSK 4
háng kōng gōng airline ∼HSK 4
tiān xia in this world; under the sun ∼HSK 4
xiàn zhì limitless; unrestricted ∼HSK 4
jiè shào self-introduction; to introduce oneself ∼HSK 4
agate; cornelian ∼HSK 4
yāo waist; small of the back ∼HSK 4
bǎo to find guarantor; to find surety ∼HSK 4
méi bàn don't know what to do with you (used to express mild exasperation) ∼HSK 4
to fall short of; not as good as; too late ∼HSK 4
chóng insects, worms; KangXi radical 142 ∼HSK 4
láo labor, toil, do manual work ∼HSK 4
bu that's just the way it is; exactly! ∼HSK 4
bài shī to formally become an apprentice to a master ∼HSK 4
shén me shì what matter ∼HSK 4
zěn yāo huì how could it ∼HSK 4
jié le that's that; that's it; that will do ∼HSK 4
jiāng rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf.); ( ∼HSK 4
wáng dàn bastard; son of a bitch ∼HSK 4
kāi to avoid; to evade; to keep away from ∼HSK 4
cái guài it'd be a wonder if... (following a verb phrase that is usually negative) ∼HSK 4
yóu shì especially; most of all; above all; in particular ∼HSK 4
dead end; impasse; end of the road; final days ∼HSK 4
àn suàn to plot against ∼HSK 4
hóng bāo money wrapped in red as a gift; bonus payment; kickback; bribe HSK 4
chuāng zi window HSK 4
jiān firm; firmly; hard; stable HSK 4