''Crime Crackdown'' () is a 2021 Chinese

crime drama Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...

series written by Du Liang and directed by Wu Bai, and starring

Sun Honglei Sun Honglei ( zh, s=孙红雷; born 16 August 1970) is a Chinese actor. His critically acclaimed television series '' Lurk'' (2008) earned him the Best Actor trophy at the three most prestigious Chinese-language television awards including the ...

Lay Zhang Zhang Yixing (born Zhang Jiashuai ; ), known professionally as Lay Zhang or simply Lay, is a Chinese singer and actor. After participating in the Chinese talent show ''Star Academy'' in 2005, he became a member of the South Korean-Chinese boy ...

and Liu Yijun. Based on several real-life cases that shook China in the 2010s, the series picks up a national anti-gang supervising group and local police officers as they take on gangs and the corrupt officials that offer these illegal groups a "protective umbrella". The series premiered on

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and

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on 9 August 2021.

Cast

Main

as Li Chengyang (), former criminal police, the current executive vice president (later acting president) and legal adviser of Xinshuai Group. *

as Lin Hao (), criminal police. * Liu Yijun as He Yong (), criminal police and leader of the 915 Task Force.

Supporting

* Wu Yue as He Yun (), executive deputy director of lüteng Municipal Public Security Bureau and director of its Anti-Gang Office, mother of Sun Xing. * Jiang Shuying as Huang Xi (), a reporter, niece of He Yun. *Wang Zhifei as Gao Mingyuan (), chairman of Changteng Capital. *Liu Zhibing as Luo Shanhe (), leader of the 36th Steering Group of the Central Anti-Triad and Evil Forces. *Wu Xiaoliang as Sun Xing (birth name Gao He) (), boss of a naked loan company, son of Gao Mingyuan and He Yun. *Ning Li as Ma Shuai (), chairman of Xinshuai Group. *Che Xiao as Li Lijuan (), a director of Xinshuai Group, wife of Ma Shuai. *Su Ke as Da Jiang (), a gang member, best buddy of Li Chengyang. *Tan Kai as Dong Yao (), governor of Shimen District in lüteng. *Hou Changrong as Zhao Ligen (), executive deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Zhongjiang Province and director of the Provincial Anti-Gang Office. *Sun Hao as Hu Xiaowei (), local police station director. *Zhou Xiao'ou as Chen Jianbo (), boss of Jian'an Civil Explosion Company. *Wang Jundi as Zheng Yihong (), president of Hezhong Media Company, adopted daughter of Gao Mingyuan. *Zhou Zhi as Yu Jingjing () *Zhao Xiaorui as Cao Peng (), communist party secretary of Yihe village. *Zheng Xiaoning as Wang Zheng (), executive vice governor of Zhongjiang Province. *Jiang Ruijia as Mai Jia (), mistress of Gao Mingyuan. *Jiang Han as Cao Xiaofeng (), son of Cao Peng. *Guo Qiucheng as Xie Zhonglin (), mayor of lüteng.

Soundtrack

Production

In May 2019, Huang Xing () and Li Yue () had joined the project as general producers. They received support from the

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, which gave them access to case files. The series took inspiration from Sun Xiaoguo's case in

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, Huang Hongfa's case () in

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, and Du Shaoping's case () and Wen Liehong's case () in

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Reception

''Crime Crackdown'' earned a 7.3/10 on Chinese media review platform

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from more than 277,000 reviews and nearly 2.70 billion views on Chinese streaming platform

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References

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