7.8
Blood Brothers (2025)
October 5, 20251h 21mZH
4.0
1 votes
Overview
High-school repeater Liu Lang is falsely accused of cheating days before the gaokao. To spare his cash-strapped family he quits school and, with two buddies, heads to Guangdong to hustle for wages. The trio tumble through comic scams, end up rescuing a girl from a local crime ring, and finally turn their street smarts into above-board success – a feel-good “small-guy wins” arc .
Director
Joel ChanWriters
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
Mandarin
Budget
N/A
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies
iQiyi International 爱奇艺国际Guangzhou Dian-feng-hui Film & TV Culture Development Co.
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4.0“Blood Brothers,” the 81-minute iQIYI quickie that dropped on 5 October , is exactly the kind of urban-migrant morality play the algorithm orders when it smells a holiday weekend and a social-media hashtag. Liu Lang, our wronged-gaokao hero, is sketched with the same thick Sharpie the film uses for everything else: one minute he’s tearing up an exam permit in the world’s least convincing slow-motion, the next he’s on a south-bound bus that looks suspiciously like a green-screen stock shot. The script, credited to three writers who apparently met for one coffee, ticks every box on the provincia…
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