Scripted series · Tencent Video
Bone Ritual
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Bone Ritual actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Bone Ritual reads strongest on Cliffhanger Intensity, Tension and Serialized.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The story
What it's about
Cao Lao, a renowned bone-reading master, and his apprentice Zheng Yu are invited to inspect the Wang family’s bones—but the appointment is a trap, pulling them into a deadly and mysterious bloodshed. To survive and restore justice, the pair embark on a calculated path of revenge, uncovering secrets that reveal a heart-wrenching tragedy of their time.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Direction
- Yang HaitingDirector
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