The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
A tale of revenge, honor and greed follows a group of misfits that gets involved with a kitchen cleaver made from the top five swords of the martial arts world in this wild and brash action comedy.
Casts & Crew
Masanobu Ando
Kitty Zhang
Liu Xiaoye
Swanson Han Pengyi
Dong Li-Fan
Gao Lei
Liu Xu
Seng-Ge Ren-Qin
An Yun-Cheng
Mi Dan
Xie Ning
Hou Xiang
Gong Geer
Zhu Jiang
Gao Yu-Lin
Wang Rui-Huan
Yau Boon-Cheong
Ashton Xu
Daniel Yu Wai-Kwok
Hao Ning
Xiong Xin-Xin
Li Ming
Chen Li-Wei
Liu Hua
Also Directed by Wuershan
At the beginning of the 1990s, famous tomb explorer Hu Bayi decided to retire and move to the United States with his girlfriend Shirley. But before his wedding, Bayi discovers his first love Ding Shitian, who supposedly had died in the "One Hundred Cave" 20 years ago, is actually still alive. Together with Shirley and his old exploration partner, Bayi unravels a terrible millennium-old secret...
According to demon lore, it takes hundreds of years to attain human form. Even then, lacking a human heart, a demon cannot experience the true pains and passions of existence. However, there is a legend that if a pure human heart is freely offered to a demon, it can become a mortal and experience true life. Sequel of Painted Skin (2008).
Based on the most well-known classical fantasy novel of China, Fengshenyanyi, the trilogy is a magnificent eastern high fantasy epic that recreates the prolonged mythical wars between humans, immortals and monsters, which happened more than three thousand years ago.