Painted Skin (Chinese) 2008

November 1, 2008 · Posted in Action, Chinese Movies, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller

Aka: Hua Pi
Year: 2008
Directed: Gordon Chan
Genre: Action | Drama | Thriller
Runtime: 97mins
Country: China/Singapore
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: Chinese
Imdb: Painted Skin

Cast: Kun Chen, David Leong, Yuwu Qi, Betty Sun, Donnie Yen, Wei Zhao, Xun Zhou

Synopsis:

The story is adapted from the ancient Chinese classic ‘Ghost Stories’ (or Liao Chai).
During the Chin and Han era, Commander Wang Sheng (by Chen Kun) leads his troops in a raid on bandits in the desert, in the process he rescues a beautiful woman and brings her back with them. However he has no idea that this woman, Xiao Wei (by Zhou Xun), is in fact a fox spirit in human form. Xiao Wei needs a regular supply of human hearts to maintain her human form, and the task falls on her helper Xiao Yi (by Qi Yu Wu) – a chameleon who’s also taken on human form and has the special ability to camouflage into the environment he is in. To prove his love and devotion to Xiao Wei, he carries out a spate of murders in order to provide her with human hearts; this terrorizes the whole city. (Read more)