(Chinese: 河神)
is a 2017 Chinese television series based on the novel He Shen (河神1·鬼水怪谈) by Tianxia Bachang. It is produced by iQiyi, and stars actors Li Xian, Zhang Ming’en, Wang Zixuan and Chen Yumi. The first season aired on iQiyi on July 19, 2017, and Netflix in 2018. The series won a Silver Medal for Best Visual Effects & a Bronze Medal for Best Direction at the 2018 New York Festivals World’s Best TV & Films Competition.
Set in the 1920s Republican era, flooding ravages the land of Tianjin and conjures up numerous strange tales about the river. Guo Deyou is a part of the river salvage team, who retrieves bodies from the water. His master is nicknamed ‘Old River God’; as the ‘Little River God’, Deyou has inherited his ability to use tobacco to uncover the truth, however, his body cannot handle smoke in large amounts. He ends up being suspected for the murder of a distinguished chairman, whose son Ding Mao, a trained forensic investigator, joins forces with him to uncover the truth.
With their female partners – Gu Ying, the daughter of a sorceress and Deyou’s childhood friend, and Xiao Lan-lan, a journalist, whose father is a rich local businessman – they begin an investigation that leads them to an incident twenty years ago, and a cult whose presence is still affecting the city in increasingly sinister ways.
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