Title: Painted Skin
Director: Wilson Yip
Starring: Donnie Yen, Andy Lau, Zhou Xun, Zhao Wei, Sun Li, Mark Chua
Adapted from the classic Chinese novel "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". During the Qin and Han dynasties, Major Wang saves a beautiful woman during a fierce battle with bandits in the Western Regions and brings her back to the Jiangdu Wang residence. Unbeknownst to him, this woman is actually Xiaowei, a nine-tailed fox spirit disguised in human skin. This skin must be nourished with human hearts, so Xiaowei's invisible assistant Xiaoyi - a demon transformed from a desert lizard - kills people every few days to obtain hearts as offerings to Xiaowei, expressing his love for her. As a result, the city of Jiangdu falls into terror. Xiaowei, because of the Wang family...