The Sorcerer and the White Snake

The Sorcerer and the White Snake (白蛇传说, 2011) is a Hong Kong-Chinese fantasy you can watch online on iFILM, rooted in one of China's four great folk legends. Director Ching Siu-tung — the action choreographer behind the Once Upon a Time in China series — brought the tale of the White Snake demon and her mortal herbalist husband to the screen with heavy CGI spectacle and Jet Li as the monk Fahai, who hunts demons on principle and sees no exceptions.

Huang Shengyi plays the White Snake, Xu Xian, as a spirit who has already chosen love over her own nature. Charlene Choi's Green Snake provides a separate emotional thread — her own attachment to a young monk runs parallel and quieter. The film works better as a tragic romance than as pure action; the fight sequences are elaborate, but the relationship between the two snakes — one who loves a human and one who doesn't understand why — is the real engine. Stream The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011) online on iFILM.