Painted Skin is a supernatural thriller/romance about a fox spirit/demon (Zhou Xun) who eats her lovers' heart to maintain her youth and beauty. She's is adopted into a young lord's family and positions herself as possible concubine, though the lord's wife (soulful Xhao Wei) stands in her way. The plot is complicated further by a lizard demon in love with the fox, the fox really falling for the lord, and demon hunters showing up in town, including master martial artist Donnie Yen. The acting is good, the plot tragic and properly suspenseful. The flaws are on the production side of things. Some of the CG is fairly weak (there isn't a whole lot of it though) and the music is noticeably cheesy (a frequent occurrence in Chinese films).
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Painted Skin is a supernatural thriller/romance about a fox spirit/demon (Zhou Xun) who eats her lovers' heart to maintain her youth and beauty. She's is adopted into a young lord's family and positions herself as possible concubine, though the lord's wife (soulful Xhao Wei) stands in her way. The plot is complicated further by a lizard demon in love with the fox, the fox really falling for the lord, and demon hunters showing up in town, including master martial artist Donnie Yen. The acting is good, the plot tragic and properly suspenseful. The flaws are on the production side of things. Some of the CG is fairly weak (there isn't a whole lot of it though) and the music is noticeably cheesy (a frequent occurrence in Chinese films).