Name: The Long River
Genre: Historical, Costume & Period, Drama
Released: 2022-11-16
Rating: 9.5
Cast: Luo Jin, Yin Fang, Huang Zhi Zhong, Xi Mei Juan, Liang Guan Hua

Luo Jin is a Chinese actor born in Jiangxi Province, China, on November 30, 1981. He studied at the Beijing Film Academy, graduating in 2006, and made his drama debut in the 2003 series “The Showroom Tales.” He then went on to star in the period drama “Three Kingdoms” (2010) and thriller series “Agent X” (2013). In 2014, he scooped the Most Popular Actor award at the China Student Television Festival for his performance in the same year’s “Ten Rides of the Red Army.” He married Chinese actress Tiffany Tang in 2016, with whom he co-starred in the same year’s “Princess Weiyoung.” More recently, he starred in “The Way We Were” and “My Story for You” (2018).

Luo Jin

Yin Fang is a Chinese actor and former ballet dancer who was born on August 27, 1986, in Changsha, Hunan Province, China. He began with dreams of becoming a classical dancer but later decided to turn his back on performance and studied business-related subjects at Beijing Normal University. In 2007, he made a U-turn and eventually took up ballet again, eventually turning his hand to acting. He made his acting debut in 2013, when he appeared in the film “Blue Sky Bones.” He has since appeared in the dramas “New World” and “With You (both 2020).

Yin Fang

Huang Zhi Zhong is a Chinese actor and director. He was born in Tianjin, China, on March 5, 1969, and made his acting debut in 1999. Since then, he has appeared in a wide variety of television dramas and films, including “Cloudy Mountain” (2021).

Huang Zhi Zhong

Xi Mei Juan is an award-winning Chinese actress. She was born on April 20, 1955, in Chuansha, Shanghai, China, and made her acting debut in theater in 1976. She made her film debut in 1990 and took her first role in a television drama in 1996. Since then, she has appeared in countless theatrical productions, films, and television dramas, including “The Long River” (2022).

Xi Mei Juan

Liang Guan Hua is a Chinese actor who was born on September 30, 1964, in Beijing, China. He graduated from the Beijing People’s Art Theatre. He began acting in stage plays in the early 1980s and by the mid-Eighties was appearing in movie and drama titles, such as the film “Charming Band” (1985) and the series “Zhen San” (1985). He continued to star in cinematic and small-screen releases and went on to play the title role in the “The Happy Life of Talkative Zhang Damin” (1998). More recently, he starred in the drama series “Ming Dynasty” (2019) and the movie “Send Me to the Clouds” (2019).

Liang Guan Hua

Su Ke is a Chinese professor and actor. He was born in Beijing, China, on December 20, 1972, and made his acting debut in 1993. Since then, he has appeared in a handful of films and a number of television dramas, including “The Long River” (2022). After graduating first in his class from the Beijing Film Academy, he chose to stay on as professor, and continues to teach to this day.

Su Ke

In the fifteenth year of his reign, Emperor Kang Xi (Luo Jin) was forced to overcome the greatest challenge of his young life when his empire was nearly washed away by the raging current of the Yellow River. Having recently experienced a bout of uncommonly heavy rainfall, the mighty swollen river began to spill over its banks. Washing away home, destroying crops, and taking countless lives, the people of Kang Xi’s empire turned to him for guidance, certain their mighty leader would know how to save them.

Unable to find a solution to the problems at hand, Kang Xi decided to recruit the empire’s brightest individuals into his service. Setting up a series of civil service examinations, candidates from across the empire came, hoping to secure a place by the Emperor’s side. Among these hopefuls was Chen Huang (Yin Fang), a bright young man with a head full of ideas and the confidence needed to turn them into action.

Passing the Emperor’s rigorous tests, Chen Huang and his colleagues were tasked with finding a solution to the problems plaguing those most affected by the raging Yellow River. With countless lives on the line, will the Emperor and his new team of advisors find a way to save their people before it’s too late?

A story of hope in the face of disaster, “The Long River” is a 2022 Chinese historical drama directed by Zhang Ting.

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