画皮师雀妖长绵是画皮坊最好的画皮师，她从小被束缚奴役在画皮坊，过着苦涩的生活。年幼时，一次逃跑她遇到少年将军首阳，首阳的温暖关怀令她终身难忘。首阳在一次大战中假意归降妖族，等待时机杀死妖王。妖王下令长绵去抓首阳未婚妻秋桑为人质。经过一些列的事件后，首阳将长绵带回妖城，长绵顶替秋桑成为首阳的妻子。她画皮成为妖王，前去见首阳，用生命赎罪。

The film begins with the title Chorokbam filling the screen, which is amazing to see. This is the very moment at which the audience decides to trust this film without hesitation. In terms of how to fill and empty the square frame, the film is bold and skillful. Chorok, meaning green in English, is the color of fate in this movie. The problems of all the family members a hopeless father who works as a night guard, a mother who is completely exhausted with house works, a poor son who works for the disabled and their funeral ceremony are all dominated by the color, green. It is not bright or fancy but dark and scary in some sense. With attractive images and scenes, the film develops a series of worldly episodes of a family up to the level of poetic sentiment of blues and depression. (JUNG Hanseok)

由上美制作的旧版动画，人物上色与2001版有所不同。

电脑文书保罗（Griffin Dunne 饰）下班后去餐厅宵夜，他手上的《北回归线》让邻座的神秘女子玛西（Rosanna Arquette 饰）上前搭讪，玛西留下电话号码，并向他介绍与自己合租的女雕塑家琦琦。保罗为追求一段艳遇，在午夜时分拨通了玛西的电话，玛西家中因纸糊雕塑显得凌乱不堪，她本人则急于喋喋不休的倾诉，让保罗无法得逞，保罗不能忍受那个没有露脸的男人“富兰克林”与玛西的神经质表现，在急欲返家之时，却又卷入了连串麻烦，与酒吧老板、酒吧女招待、朋克青年们、两名窃贼、开冰激凌车的女青年等等纠缠不清，似乎在这个夜里，所有人都在妨碍保罗回家。本片获1986年戛纳电影节最佳导演奖，1986年独立精神将最佳导演奖。