Painted Skin 2008
画皮
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.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 讨厌 討厭 | to dislike; to loathe; disagreeable; troublesome; annoying | |
| 颗 顆 | classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc | |
| 抢 搶 | (literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage); opposite in direction; contrary | |
| 陪 陪 | to accompany; to keep sb company; to assist; old variant of 赔 | |
| 放弃 放棄 | to renounce; to abandon; to give up | |
| 杀 殺 | to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely | |
| 肯定 肯定 | to be certain; to be positive; assuredly; definitely; to give recognition; to affirm; affirmative (answer) | |
| 唯一 唯一 | only; sole | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 大方 大方 | expert; scholar; mother earth; a type of green tea | Xiehouyu |
| 恶心 惡心 | nausea; to feel sick; disgust; nauseating; to embarrass (deliberately) | Xiehouyu |
| 尾巴 尾巴 | tail; colloquial pr. [yǐ ba] | Colloquialism |
| 抱 抱 | to hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug; to embrace; to surround; to cherish; (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely | Colloquialism |
| 高翔 高翔 | Gao Xiang (1688-1753), Qing dynasty painter | Proper Noun |
| 县官 縣官 | district magistrate; county magistrate | Proper Noun |
| 蚩尤 蚩尤 | Chiyou, legendary tribal leader who was defeated and killed by the Yellow Emperor | Proper Noun |
| 没想到 沒想到 | didn't expect | |
| 勇 勇 | brave, courageous, fierce | |
| 怎么会 怎麼會 | how could it | |
| 什么事 什麼事 | what matter | |
| 大王 大王 | king; magnate; person having expert skill in something | |
| 谢 謝 | thank | |
| 没办法 沒辦法 | there is nothing to be done; one can't do anything about it | |
| 知 知 | know | |
| 王家 王家 | princely | |
| 尾 尾 | tail, extremity; end, stern | |
| 妖术 妖術 | sorcery | |
| 弃 棄 | reject, abandon, discard | |
| 切片 切片 | to slice; slice; thin section of a specimen (for microscopic examination) | |
| 坊 坊 | surname Fang | |
| 打扰了 打擾了 | sorry to interrupt you, but...; sorry to have bothered you; sorry, I have to go; (slang) (coined c. 2017) used facetiously to terminate a conversation (esp. online) when the other person is being insufferable | |
| 厨 廚 | kitchen; closet; cupboard | |
| 官差 官差 | official business; government workmen; odd-job men | |
| 王法 王法 | the law; the law of the land; the law of a state (in former times); criterion | |
| 上阵 上陣 | to go into battle | |
| 符 符 | i.d. tag, tally, symbol, charm | |
| 确是 確是 | certainly | |
| 摆明 擺明 | to show clearly | |
| 案发 案發 | (of a crime) to occur; (old) (of a crime) to be discovered; to investigate a crime on the spot | |
| 大户 大戶 | great family; rich family; large landlord; conspicuous spender or consumer | |
| 色迷 色迷 | crazy about sex; lecherous; horny | |
| 降妖 降妖 | to subdue monsters | |
| 一无是处 一無是處 | (idiom) not one good point; everything about it is wrong | |
| 怎么能 怎麼能 | how could one | |
| 施 施 | grant, bestow; give; act; name | |
| 完结 完結 | to finish; to conclude; completed | |
| 戴帽子 戴帽子 | to wear a hat; (fig.) to stigmatize; to be branded as | |
| 看不起 看不起 | to look down upon; to despise | |
| 孙女 孫女 | son's daughter; granddaughter | |
| 影子 影子 | shadow; reflection; (fig.) hint; indication; influence |