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Painted Skin

Name: Painted Skin
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Drama
Released: 2008-09-25
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 6

★ 6,0 /10 (168 Votes)

2008 ZH 103 min

Overview

Painted Skin is based on one of Pu Songling's classic short stories in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Zhou Xun stars as Xiao Wei, a fox spirit that feasts on human hearts in order to maintain her lovely, youthful appearance. When General Wang Sheng (Chen Kun) 'rescues' her from a band of bandits and brings her home, trouble brews as the demon falls in love with the general.

Release date

25/09/2008

Votes

168

Popularity

2.2

Genres

Fantasy Action Drama

Status

Released

Original title

画皮

Language

Runtime

103 min

Donnie Yen

Pang Yong

Zhou Xun

Xiao Wei

Chen Kun

Wang Sheng

Vicky Zhao Wei

Pei Rong

Sun Li

Xia Bing

Qi Yuwu

Xiao Yi / Lizard Demon

Jin Song

Gao Xiang

No photo

David Liang Kai-Di

Xia Huo Xiang

Xiao Cong

Jing Ping

Liu Yan

Patroness

Yeerjiang Mahepushen

Bandit chief

Michael Tan An-Ye

Da Dao

Qi Yunpeng

Mo Zhui

Wen Yang

Tong Tou

Zhao Changzhou

Jing An

Li Qilong

Wu Zhao

Qu Dalei

Ding Yi

Han Zhenhua

Fortune teller

Jin Liang

Waiter

Dai Xiaoyi

Young lady

Qin Pengfei

No photo

Fei Wang

Original Soundtrack

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General Wang Sheng (Kun Shen) atacks a bandit camp and saves Xiaowei (Xun Zhou) who is a demon fox spirit that needs to feed on human hearts to keep her nice appearance. Wang Sheng brings her home and presents her to his wife Pei Rong (Vicky Zhao) that welcomes her and offers to keep her in her service. But Xiaowei falls in love with Wang. Strange events then happen, including people disappearing or dying, so Pei Rong turns to a demon hunter, Pang Yong (Donnie Yen), who is tired of things and not of much help. He meets an inexperienced demon hunter, Xia Bing (Li Sun) who is very interested…

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