Painted Skin

Painted Skin 2008

画皮 huàpí

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.

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3.82 Beginner Director Gordon Chan IMDb 6.3

Cast

Donnie Yen Donnie Yen Pang Yong Zhou Xun Zhou Xun Xiao Wei Chen Kun Chen Kun Wang Sheng Vicky Zhao Vicky Zhao Pei Rong Sun Li Sun Li Xia Bing Qi Yuwu Qi Yuwu Xiao Yi / Lizard Demon Jin Song Jin Song Gao Xiang David Liang Kai-Di Xia Huo Xiang Xiao Cong Xiao Cong Jing Ping Liu Yan Liu Yan Patroness

Vocabulary

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亲眼 親眼 qīn yǎn with one's own eyes; personally HSK 6
拿走 拿走 ná zǒu to take away HSK 6
捉 捉 zhuō to clutch; to grab; to capture HSK 6
赖 賴 lài to depend on; to hang on in a place; bad; to renege (on promise); to disclaim; to rat (on debts); rascally; to blame; to put the blame on HSK 6
查出 查出 chá chū to find out; to discover HSK 6
想不到 想不到 xiǎng bu dào unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that HSK 6
箭 箭 jiàn arrow HSK 6
欺负 欺負 qī fu to bully HSK 6
战场 戰場 zhàn chǎng battlefield HSK 6
凶 兇 xiōng terrible; fearful HSK 6
放手 放手 fàng shǒu to let go one's hold; to give up; to have a free hand HSK 6
从没 從沒 cóng méi never (in the past); never did HSK 6
灭 滅 miè to extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out; to drown HSK 6
救命 救命 jiù mìng to save sb's life; (interj.) Help!; Save me! HSK 6
算了 算了 suàn le let it be; let it pass; forget about it HSK 6
伤口 傷口 shāng kǒu wound; cut HSK 6
一时 一時 yī shí a period of time; a while; for a short while; temporary; momentary; at the same time HSK 6
无关 無關 wú guān unrelated; having nothing to do (with sth else) HSK 6
趟 䠀 tàng classifier for times, round trips or rows; a time; a trip HSK 6
将军 將軍 jiāng jūn general; high-ranking military officer; to check or checkmate; fig. to embarrass; to challenge; to put sb on the spot HSK 6
挖 挖 wā to dig; to excavate; to scoop out HSK 6
除 除 chú to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out; to divide; except; not including HSK 6
再说 再說 zài shuō to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides HSK 6
印 印 yìn to print; to mark; to engrave; a seal; a print; a stamp; a mark; a trace; image HSK 6
军队 軍隊 jūn duì armed forces; troops HSK 6
剑 劍 jiàn double-edged sword; classifier for blows of a sword HSK 6
股 股 gǔ thigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (stock) share; strand of a thread; low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科; classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc; classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff; classifier for bands of people, gangs etc; classifier for sudden forceful actions HSK 6
样 樣 yàng manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type HSK 6
镇 鎮 zhèn to press down; to calm; to subdue; to suppress; to guard; garrison; small town; to cool or chill (food or drinks) HSK 6
利 利 lì sharp; favorable; advantage; benefit; profit; interest; to do good to; to benefit HSK 6
赛 賽 sài to compete; competition; match; to surpass; better than; superior to; to excel HSK 6
不再 不再 bù zài no more; no longer HSK 6
便 便 biàn plain; informal; suitable; convenient; opportune; to urinate or defecate; equivalent to 就: then; in that case; even if; soon afterwards HSK 6
因 囙 yīn cause; reason; because HSK 6
啦 啦 lā (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat HSK 6
与 與 yǔ and; to give; together with HSK 6
胡言乱语 胡言亂語 hú yán luàn yǔ babbling nonsense (idiom); crazy and unfounded ravings; double Dutch Idiom ∼HSK 5
装神弄鬼 裝神弄鬼 zhuāng shén - nòng guǐ lit. to pretend to be in contact with supernatural beings (idiom); fig. to create a false sense of mystery; to play tricks to deceive or scare others; to engage in hocus-pocus Idiom ∼HSK 5
狐狸尾巴 狐狸尾巴 hú li wěi ba lit. fox's tail (idiom); visible sign of evil intentions; to reveal one's evil nature; evidence that reveals the villain Idiom ∼HSK 5
混蛋 混蛋 hún dàn scoundrel; bastard; hoodlum; wretch Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
妖 妖 yāo demon, monster ∼HSK 5
佩 佩 pèi belt ornament, pendant; wear at waist, tie to the belt; respect ∼HSK 5
蓉 蓉 Róng hibiscus; Chengdu, Sichuan ∼HSK 5
魔 魔 mó demon ∼HSK 5
兮 兮 xī exclamatory particle ∼HSK 5
妾 妾 qiè concubine; I (humble, female) ∼HSK 5
妖精 妖精 yāojing demon spirit ∼HSK 5
狐 狐 hú species of fox ∼HSK 5
柔 柔 róu soft; gentle, pliant ∼HSK 5
匪 匪 fěi bandits, robbers, gangsters ∼HSK 5