The 66th edition of The Painted Skin is adapted from Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, which is a horror movie starring Hong Chu, Gao Yuan, Chen Juanjuan and Weng Wu. This film mainly tells the story that Wang Chongwen, a scholar, was killed by a female ghost after he accepted the female ghost as the examiner's daughter because of his greed for utility.
1966, The Painted Skin filmed by Bao Fang was the first time this story was put on the screen. After the film was released in Hong Kong, the response was good. Later, the film entered Zhongnanhai and was shown internally. Rola Chen spoke highly of the film, so 1979 was successfully released. In that era of lack of entertainment, such a film has successfully become a topic that every household talks about.
A few days after the film was released, it was banned because there was a rumor that an old lady was scared to death. It was not until CCTV cut the film that it was exposed, so all the painted skins we saw in memory were cut versions. But it's true that the original "The Painted Skin" was sealed in the National Film Archives.