Scripted series · Zhejiang Television
River Sunset
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Zhang Luyi
Lin Sen / Ichiro Takeki
44 eps
Janine Chang Chun-Ning
Ye Biying
44 eps
Morning Chang
Ye Degong
44 eps
Zhang Songwen
Director Shen
44 eps
Casper Van Dien
James Doolittle
44 eps
Wang Shuangbao
Dai Li
1 eps
Shao Tong
Wit Chen
1 eps
Shen Xuewei
Wang Shihe
1 eps
Feng Qian
Tang Bingchen
1 eps
Meng Zhaozhong
Ye Longxia
1 eps
He Zhilong
Ke Wen
1 eps
Li Jinfeng
Chen Qiao
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How River Sunset actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
River Sunset reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
After an Allied plane carrying a top-secret WWII bombing plan is shot down behind enemy lines, a wounded survivor hides on a Japanese-occupied island while military intelligence races to recover the documents before they doom the entire operation.
Where to watch
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