Jin Dong and Zhou Yang joined hands again two years after cooperating in the filming of the spy drama "Special Scramble" and filmed the spy drama "Secret Kill List" in 2011. The drama tells the story of an underground party led by Shen Jianqiu in a deadly contest between the Shanghai Central Bureau of the Kuomintang and the Secrecy Bureau over an assassination list. In addition to Jin Dong and Zhou Yang, the old drama bone Li Liqun also joined the drama, the drama won with the plot, the story twists and turns, the conflict between the characters is fierce, it is a high-quality TV series.
In 1949, the Kuomintang drew up a "secret killing list" listing senior officers of the Kuomintang army with insurrectional tendencies and dozens of patriotic democrats in the Kuomintang areas. The Central Committee of the Communist Party ordered Shen Jianqiu, an underground party member lurking in the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense, to obtain a list to protect the group. Yan Jingyao, director of the Shanghai Central Bureau of the Secrecy Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense, Fang Ruzhou, deputy director of the Secrecy Bureau, Ye Mengxin, female agent of the Secrecy Bureau, and Lin Yi, agent of the Chairman's Attendant Room, and others had their own concerns about the "secret killing operation" and the "secret killing list." Ye Mengxin was adopted by Shen Jianqiu's mother since childhood, and she deeply loved Shen Jianqiu; and Shen Jianqiu loved the female military doctor Xia Bing; the painter Tao Gongliang, whom Lin Yi loved, was an undercover agent installed by the Kuomintang Gui clan inside the Shanghai underground party of the Communist Party of China; and Tao Gongliang's lover was Shen Jianqiu's younger sister Shen Ruolan. This "list" was hidden in the depths of the Kuomintang Secrecy Bureau, and the CPC, the secret bureau's personnel who intended to join the COMMUNISTs, and the Three Qing Gangs were staring at it; after a thrilling and fierce battle, in the end, most of the people on the "list" were protected in a timely manner.
Zhou Yang, an actor known to the audience as the "Flower of Spy War Dramas", co-starred in the red spy war drama "Special Mission" with Li Guangjie, Jiang Xiaohan and Li Li in 2006, and co-starred in the spy war suspense drama "Special Scramble" with Jin Dong, Liu Xiyuan and Liu Xiaohai in 2008. However, contrary to his wishes, in the same year, Zhou Yang played the temperamental and intelligent heroine Sima Nan in the historical war drama "Dark War Before Dawn" co-starring with Huang Xuan, Guo Guangping and Guo Da. It is said that it was the characters of the TV series that attracted her. In 2013, Zhou Yang co-starred with Zheng Guolin, Yang Yang and Jiang Linjing in the spy war drama "Lonely Hero", most of the TV dramas starring Zhou Yang are based on the theme of anti-war and spy war, which may also have a certain relationship with her unique temperament and excellent performance in spy war dramas.
Li Liqun, a Taiwanese artist who used to be a cross-talk actor, has been developing in the mainland in recent years, playing Professor Tian in "Twenty-Eight Nannies of Professor Tian's Family" in 1998, which is well known to mainland audiences, and he has since participated in the filming of many TV series, which is the first spy drama filmed by Li Liqun. After that, he also participated in the spy war drama "One Touch" starring Zhong Hanliang and the just-hit Liu Yunlong spy war drama "Odds of Victory".
In this play, Jin Dong plays the male number one Shen Jianqiu, who is ostensibly the head of the intelligence department of the Shanghai Central Bureau of the Kuomintang. The real identity is the "swordsman" who has long been lurking in the upper echelons of the Kuomintang underground party of the CCP. In order to find the list of the Kuomintang assassination operations, Shen Jianqiu and the secret service agents launched a thrilling open and secret struggle. Yan Jingyao, played by Li Liqun, is the most important and difficult opponent that Shen Jianqiu faces in the play. As the deputy director of the Kuomintang Secrecy Bureau, he was the number one person under Mao Renfeng, one of the core figures in drawing up and executing the "secret killing list", and was an out-and-out, ruthless and cruel murderer demon king. And Zhou Yang played the thoughtful and competitive cold female agent Lin Yi in "Secret Kill List", in which she was entrusted with the heavy responsibility of hiding and protecting the secret kill list from theft.
Compared with other spy dramas, "Secret Kill List" has its own distinct characteristics. It reduces the complicated and excessive storyline of traditional spy dramas, but instead takes a different approach to character shaping and story rhythm. This new spy mode gives the audience a refreshing, refreshing sensory experience, and also establishes the unique characteristics of the show. Therefore, "Secret Kill List" can stand out from many spy dramas. It is unique with its bright story rhythm and ups and downs of the storyline, creating a new mode of spy drama and making it deeply rooted in people's hearts. In the end, it received a rating of 7.4 from Douban, which can be called a successful domestic spy drama.
At the end of this play, the plot treatment of the protagonist Shen Jianqiu's assassination has left a foreshadowing for the audience, and some viewers believe that Shen Jianqiu was sacrificed, and they feel extremely sorry. Some viewers believe that this ending has a deep meaning, Shen Jianqiu is not dead, and even some viewers have written their own sequels for this purpose. But in either case, the audience's love and investment in the show can be seen.