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Painted Skin (2008)
"Hua pi" (original title)

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An action-thriller centered on a vampire-like woman who eats the skins and hearts of her lovers.

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Cast

Credited cast:
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Xiao Wei
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Pei Rong
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General Wang Sheng
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Pang Yong
Betty Sun ...
Xia Bing (as Li Sun)
Yuwu Qi ...
Demon Xiao Yi
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Michael Tan An-Ye ...
Da Dao
Zhao Chang-Zhou ...
Jing An
Kim-Fai Che
Ke Cheng
Kwok-Ping Choi
Xiao Cong ...
Jing Ping
Qu Da-Lei ...
Ding Yi
Wang Fei
Liu Fei-Long
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Storyline

Where there is trouble, there is solution. This time, the troubles comes from two myth spirits that take the form of a human. Disguise in human skin and clothes, the two continues to take the heart of human to stay alive and young. But one of them leads to the wrong path and fall in love with a married man. What will happen to the live of this man and his wife after saving the her from the barbarians? Written by Kimberly

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Release Date:

25 September 2008 (Hong Kong)  »

Also Known As:

Painted Skin  »

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Budget:

$10,000,000 (estimated)
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Trivia

Hong Kong's 2009 Academy Awards official submission to Foreign-Language Film category. See more »

Goofs

All mail armor in this film is made with the the mail going vertically rather than sideways. This would make the armor less effective, as it spreads the ring pattern open, making it easier to penetrate. All historical examples of mail armor have the ring pattern going from side to side for this reason. See more »

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Remake of Hua pi (1966) See more »

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Worst Chinese film in decades? I think so!
24 October 2008 | by (Sydney,Australia) – See all my reviews

After all the effort of building international reputation with films like "Heroes" and "Crouching Tiger", Chinese film has gone back to the starting point with this one. "Painted Skin" is nothing but an amateur attempt trying to imitate other ones, without sufficient skill or patient. The lines are simple AWFUL!!! I wonder whether they came up with the script in two days. The costumes and makeup is a joke, look like recycled from other movies. The acting....Donnie Yen's performance is probably OK for a HongKong TV show and nothing else, and all those supposedly emotional scenes are so badly handled, gave me goose bumps. The worst thing of this film is the directing, the editing and camera works. It is absolutely mind-blowing that such a horrible production, worse than an average video on Youtube, has spent so much money on advertising and publicity stunt, but nothing on making this movie worth seeing.


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