"The Hidden Corner" is adapted from Zijin Chen's mystery novel "Bad Boy", produced by Han Sanping and directed by Xin Shuang, starring Qin Hao and Wang Jingchun, starring Rong Zishan, Shi Pengyuan and Wang Shengdi, and starring Zhang Songwen, Liu Lin, Lu Fangsheng, Li Meng, and Huang Miyi.
The drama mainly tells the story of three children in a small coastal town who inadvertently filmed a murder while playing in the scenic spot and began an adventure, and was broadcast on iQiyi on June 16, 2020.
Zhang Dongsheng
Actor Qin Hao
The substitute math teacher of the Children's Palace, loyal and honest in appearance, because of love to work in his wife's place, he has no achievements in his career, and he lives a very humble life. Because his wife insisted on divorce, she took pictures to push her parents-in-law off a cliff and was blackmailed by the witnesses.
Chen Guansheng
Actor Wang Jingchun
Retiring veteran police officer. Enthusiastic and responsible for integrity, square dancing. Because he arrested Yan Liang's father when he was young, the child did not have the father's teaching, and he always felt guilty and cared about Yan Liang.
Zhu Chaoyang
Actor Rong Zi Shan
Obsessed with learning to be an honor student who cannot extricate himself. Zhu Chaoyang is a school bully and always comes first, but his family is very unfortunate. His parents divorced, and he lived with his mother. His father reorganized the family and did not care much about him, and his mother was busy with work, in addition to urging him to study, she was basically unable to take care of him, but she was possessive of him.
Strict
Actor Shi Pengyuan
One of the three children who witnessed the murder. As the boss of the trio, he is indulgent in appearance, but he loves his sister the most, wants to find his father, and Pop runs out of the welfare home, has been taking good care of Pop, and wants to help Pop raise money to treat his brother.
Pop
Actor Wang Shengdi
One of the three children who witnessed the murder, she was the youngest to film the murder. She is a good-looking little girl, but also a deep-minded person who wants to cure her own brother, because it takes 300,000 yuan to treat her brother's illness, and runs out of the welfare home to raise money.
Zhu Yongping
Actor Zhang Songwen
Zhu Chaoyang and Zhu Jingjing's father, after divorcing Zhou Chunhong, had a daughter and loved his daughter very much.
Zhou Chunhong
Actor Liu Lin
Zhu Chaoyang's mother, after divorcing Zhu Yongping, also has her own boyfriend, and she thinks that learning is important to Zhu Chaoyang and does not care about interpersonal relationships.
Ye Jun
Actor Lu Fangsheng
Policeman, but also the father of Ye Chimin's classmate.
Wang Yao
Actor Li Meng
Zhu Jingjing's mother, with an arrogant personality, after Zhu Jingjing's accident, believes that Zhu Chaoyang killed her daughter.
Huang Miyi as Xu Jing.
Lin Peng as Director Ma of scenic spots.
Wang Yidan as Teacher Wang.
The play is adapted from Zijin Chen's speculative novel "Bad Boy".
It tells the story of three children in a small coastal town who inadvertently filmed and recorded a murder while playing in the scenic spot, and their adventure began.
The mysterious facts of the case envelop several families and lead them to an unpredictable future.
The idea of change that the creators of "The Hidden Corner" determined at the beginning is not to be on the surface of sin, but to try to show the multi-faceted nature of human nature, hoping to let the audience see deeper content.
The title of the play was changed to "The Hidden Corner" to remind people to pay attention to the corners that are not noticed under the torrent of the times, breeding characters and stories, which may be inconspicuous, but when zoomed in, they can bring a thrilling sense of shock.
Director Xin Shuang does not want to make a conclusion about the behavior and characters of "The Hidden Corner", such as good or bad, good and evil, and hopes to leave more thinking to the audience.
The reason why the "Hidden Corner" crew looked for Qin Hao to star was to be a contrast and avoid making people look bad at first glance.
In addition to the hot topics such as family, the growth of minors, and education in the story itself, the director, the screenwriting team and the actors of the acting collective online have made the work particularly interesting, and the announcement of the finale has triggered a round of deconstruction and conjecture by the audience (Beijing Daily Review).
"The Hidden Corner" uses the perspective of children to observe the family and look at the adult world, which can generate many contents, people's joys and sorrows, family relations to people's feelings, and the three children are more like a window to perceive the world. (Wen Wei Po Review)
The Hidden Corner can see some deviations in the name of love, such as maternal love dominated by possessiveness, jealousy of the silent, and paranoia of the inferior. These emotions, which oscillate between good and evil in human nature, will send out a secret wake-up call in the process of watching the play. (Wen Wei Po Review)
"The Hidden Corner" follows strict logical reasoning, interlocking to push the plot to a climax again and again, and the story of the three children and the murderer Zhang Dongsheng played by Qin Hao is told suspensefully and meticulously (Beijing Daily Review).
In addition to continuing the "dark style" in terms of plot, photography, soundtrack, and style, "The Hidden Corner" also tries to get out of the solidified creative concept and establish a more detailed connection with real life. (China Youth Daily Review)
"The Hidden Corner" explores the tentacles again, comprehensively extends to all levels of social groups, and reaches the interior of the smallest social cell of the "family", giving a true portrayal of single-parent families, middle-aged marriages, mid-life crises, and especially juvenile delinquency. (China Youth Daily Review)
"The Hidden Corner" is like a needle, piercing the expressiveness of the past domestic dramas that always hover over "want to talk and stop", so that the audience can see a story that is closer to reality (China Youth Daily Review).
"The Hidden Corner" is not impeccable, in the later episodes, the rhythm seems to be delayed, and the whole drama does not match its "reasoning" positioning (China Youth Daily Review).