Watching movies is a great way learn Chinese language,also you can learn the slang and Chinese culture.Movies can be an extraordinary manner to study a language. Films often reflect the lifestyle and language of a country in its rustic and fundamental form. Plus, they portray the every day lives of the human beings residing there.
Thus, it offers a better perception into the culture than reading approximately it in a e-book or net. But, of route, this additionally applies to mastering the Chinese language.
1 富贵列车 富貴列車 (1986) Millionaires’ Express / Shanghai Express
In the early years of the Republic of China, the railway from Shanghai to Chengdu passed through. The departure of the first train attracted the attention of the gangs, because it was full of wealthy families, so they colluded with the mountain bandits to rob the train. Chengqitian (hongjinbao), who specializes in sneaking around, also came up with the idea of this train. In order to get on the train, he decided to blow up a section of railway in front of his hometown Hanshui Town, and then get on the train. Unexpectedly, chengqitian was recognized as a wanted criminal by the local security captain caozhuojian (yuanbiao), so he wanted to arrest him. Chengqitian narrowly escaped capture and successfully blew up the railway. This just helped the mountain bandits. They began to besiege Hanshui town. Seeing that their hometown is about to be destroyed by mountain bandits, Cheng and Cao decide to unite against the strong enemy.
2 功夫 Kung Fu Hustle 2004
In Shanghai in the 1940s, a Xing (Stephen Chow), a street gangster who had been bullied since he was a child, drilled into the gap of opportunity in order to get ahead. This time, he focused on the increasingly rampant Mafia force “ax Gang” and wanted to make great achievements in the name of it.
A Xing tried to extort money from the residents in a place called “pig cage City stronghold” by pretending to be a member of the “ax Gang” and did not want to draw resentments between the real “ax Gang” and the residents of “pig cage City stronghold”. The “pig cage City stronghold” used to be a place where there were hidden dragons and crouching tigers. Among the residents, there were many people with unique skills (Yuanhua, liangxiaolong, etc.). They hid here to stay away from the gratitude and resentment of the Jianghu. They didn’t want to trouble themselves and couldn’t hide. While watching the battle, a Xing gradually understood the true meaning of Kung Fu.
An old beggar selling fake books sold fake Wulin secret collections to a young man. The young man believed it. He bought a copy of the Tathagata divine palm with all his savings. After practicing it for several times, he naively thought he had mastered peerless martial arts. He ran into a group of older children bullying a little girl who was speechless. He wanted to be brave, but was insulted and hurt his self-esteem. The little girl thanked and comforted him. He was embarrassed and ran away. Then he went to the candy store to work. During this period, he saw a variety of people every day, including the “fire cloud evil god” who directed the traffic at the entrance of the candy store, the young people who showed their bottoms, the “God carving heroes” who passed by, and a large number of Wulin experts in the film. One day the little girl passed by the candy store and met him. They happily walked into the store holding hands. At this time, another child met an old beggar, and another dream of reincarnation began.
3 英雄本色 (1986) A Better Tomorrow / Gangland Boss
Songzihao (played by Dilong) and mark (played by Chow Yun fat), important members of an international counterfeit money group in Hong Kong, are brothers. When songzihao took his subordinate Tancheng (played by lizixiong) to Taipei for trading, he was betrayed by him and arrested for gunshot wounds. In order to avenge his good brother, mark went to Taiwan alone. As a result, he was crippled. Since then, his status in the Jianghu has plummeted, and songzihao’s father died soon. Songzijie (played by Leslie Cheung), who has always regarded songzihao as an idol, hated the underworld and his brother after learning his real identity, and vowed to use his police identity to root out the underworld forces. After songzihao got out of prison, he decided to abandon the dark and cast himself into the light, despite waiting for the dissuasion of mark, who wanted to make a big impact on his glory, but could not get songzijie’s understanding. At this time, Tancheng, who has become the leader of the guild, wants to cooperate with songzihao again. After being rejected, he says that he will harm songzijie. He is cornered. Songzihao decides to join hands with mark to fight against the strong enemy.
4 A计划/A計劃 (1983) Project A
At the beginning of the last century, rampant pirates in Hong Kong frequently hijacked merchant ships. Considering that the investment confidence of businessmen in various countries would be reduced, the status of Hong Kong International Trade Center might be lost. The authorities reorganized the Navy and set up a special police team to take charge of maritime security.
The captain, Ma Rulong (Jackie Chan), was framed while performing official duties and resigned angrily. The pirate leader Luo sanpao (Diwei) captured the families of the officers and soldiers as hostages. The authorities decided to use the inside line zhouyongling to mediate. Knowing that zhouyongling had colluded with pirates, marulong volunteered to save the hostages. He reorganized the Navy and formulated plan a, hoping to catch all the pirates by cooperating with his boss hongtianci (yuanbiao) and his good brother zhuoyifai(hongjinbao)
5 警察故事 (1985) Police Story / Police Force
Chen Jiaju (Jackie Chan), a police officer trained by the special police, is honest and hardworking in handling cases. He often ignores his girlfriend (Maggie Cheung). In a campaign of encirclement and suppression, chenjiaju arrested Zhu Tao, a big drug lord. However, due to the sudden disappearance of the witness (Zhu Tao’s secretary), sharina (linqingxia), Chen Jiaju was demoted. In order to retaliate against Chen Jiaju, Zhu Tao plans to lure him to the villa where sharina is imprisoned, and sends his men to kill a policeman and frame him, so that Chen Jiaju can only go into exile under the police’s warrant.
Sharina, who narrowly escaped, understood Zhu Tao’s unscrupulous nature. In order to protect herself, she ventured into Zhu Tao’s office to steal evidence, but was chased by his men to the mall. Chen Jiaju arrived in time to start a fierce battle with Zhu Tao’s men.
6 智取威虎山3D / 林海雪原3D / The Taking of Tiger Mountain / Tracks in The Snowy Forest
In the winter of 1947, in order to seize the distribution map of the tens of thousands of advance troops controlling the nine ridges in the northeast from the bandits, shaojianbo (Lin Xinxin), leader of 203 detachment of the Northeast Democratic United Army, assigned the investigator yangzirong (Zhang Hanyu) to sneak into the largest bandit mountain “Weihu mountain”. With his resourcefulness, yangzirong won the appreciation of the bandit’s first mountain carving (played by Liang Jiahui) and the eight King Kong under him, and was named the “old nine” of Weihu mountain. Zuoshan Diao is naturally suspicious. He has sent people to test yangzirong many times. While dealing with bandits in many ways, yangzirong is involved in danger to spread information to his comrades in arms down the mountain. One after another, Luan Ping (duyiheng), the bandit liaison assistant captured alive by team 203, escapes. Knowing the details of Yang Zirong’s undercover work, he appears in Weihu stronghold to confront Yang Zirong face to face. Yang Zirong is in full crisis
7 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (卧虎藏龙 / Wò hǔ cáng lóng) — 2000
Directed by using internationally acclaimed director Ang Lee in 2000, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a period movie. It was set inside the 19th century.This is one of the maximum fascinating movies in the Wuxia style (a Chinese literature style that depicts the exploits of historical Chinese martial artists).This film is primarily based on Wang Dulu’s novel of the equal call, posted in 1942. It’s a touching romance about a nineteenth-century Qing Dynasty warrior and his love interest.Each of the 4 characters talks with a one-of-a-kind Chinese accent is one of the maximum exciting elements of the image. This film can gain you in case you aim for a higher Mandarin HSK level.
8 我不是药神 (2018) 中国药神 / 印度药神 / 印度药商 / 生命之路 / Dying to Survive / Drug Dealer
Cheng Yong (Xu Zheng), an ordinary middle-aged man, runs a health care store. He is frustrated and divorced. The arrival of the uninvited guest lvhuili (wangchuanjun) led him to open up a new business of buying drugs in India as a “purchasing agent”. Although there were many difficulties, he found business opportunities in this “drug buying road” and became the exclusive agent of Indian generic drugs for the treatment of CML. While making money, he also met several patients and their families. In order to save his daughter, Sihui (played by tanzhuo), who was forced to be a dancer, pastor Liu (played by yangxinming), who spoke fluent “priest’s voice” English, and the irascible “Huang Mao” (played by Zhang Yu), several people started a business together and doubled their profits. At the same time, they were also in danger. Cheng Yong’s former brother-in-law, police officer Cao (played by Zhou Yiwei), was ordered to investigate the source of generic drugs. The fake drug dealer zhangchanglin (played by Wang Yanhui) and the Swiss genuine medicine representative (played by Li Naiwen) also coveted him. The business gradually turned into a tug of war about redemption.
This film is adapted from the true story of luyong, a patient with CML, who bought anti-cancer drugs on behalf of him
9 给爸爸的信 給爸爸的信 (1995)/赤子威龙 / 父子武状元 / My Father Is A Hero
Gong Wei (played by Jet Li), an undercover public security officer in the mainland, can’t take more care of his seriously ill wife because of his working relationship, nor can he provide more care for his sensible and highly skilled son Jianjian (played by Xie Miao). When his wife and children urgently need him, Gong Wei disguises himself as a criminal and runs away with Hong Kong Gangster Xiao Hei (played by Ke Shouliang) captured in the mainland because of the order of his boss, Embarked on an undercover trip to Hong Kong Fu Guang (Yu Rongguang) gang. Gong Wei and Fu Guang Gang ate black in the bomb trade, rescued Hong Kong inspector Fang Yihua (Anita Mui) in the scuffle, and won Fu Guang’s trust with their excellent skills. Fang Yihua came to Beijing to investigate Gong Wei’s identity, found out the truth, and led him to Hong Kong to find his father after Gong’s wife died. Fang Yihua’s boss exposed Gong Wei’s identity as a father and son, putting Gong Wei in danger. At this moment, the auction and robbery planned by Fu Guang is also imminent
10奇谋妙计五福星 奇謀妙計五福星 (1983) Winners and Sinners / Five Lucky Stars
Five strangers in prison became good brothers – five lucky stars. The teapot (hung Jinbao), the dead throat (wuyaohan), curly Maoji (cenjianxun), Vaseline (qinxianglin) and Lu Qi (fengchuanfan) all became the victims of petty theft or running away from the dragon. They decided to be a man again after they were released from prison and earn money openly and honestly. The five were released from prison on the same day. After they were released from prison, they jointly set up a cleaning company to help clean the company or home.
One day, the gang was caught by a local policeman when they were dealing in the electronic version of fake speculation. In a panic, they hid the electronic version in the cleaning box of wufuxing’s cleaning car. The five blissful stars who did not know the truth were involved in the Jianghu for no reason: on the one hand, the police suspected that they were gangsters and wanted them everywhere; On the other hand, the gangs are also pursuing them, trying to kill people and get back the electronic version. How can the five lucky stars use their ingenious tricks to escape from the dilemma?
