Painted Skin - Movie

The story is adapted from the ancient Chinese classic ‘Ghost Stories’ (Liao Zhai). During the Qin and Han era, Commander Wang Sheng (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, Xiaowei (Zhou Xun), is in fact a fox spirit in human form. Xiaowei needs a regular supply of human hearts to maintain her human form, and the task falls on her helper Xiao Yi (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 Xiaowei, he carries out a spate of murders in order to provide her with human hearts; this terrorizes the whole city.

Meanwhile, Xiaowei has fallen in love with Wang Sheng, after being impressed with his gallant attempt in rescuing her. She keeps trying to seduce Wang in an effort to steal him from his wife Peirong (Vicki Zhao). Peirong finds out about Xiaowei’s feelings for her husband; she also discovers that Xiaowei is not human, so she secretly approaches martial expert Pang Yong (by Donnie Yen) and demon Catcher Xiao Bing (Sun Li) for help... Subsequently a drama unfolds intricate emotions and relationships between man and demon, love and passion, loyalty and temptation, treachery and integrity, ending in a finale with surprising twist.

(Source: lovehkfilm)

Cast
Donnie Yen Chi Tan
Zhou Xun
Qi Yu Wu
Vicky Zhao Wei
Chen Kun
Betty Sun Li

Director
Gordon Chan Kar Shan