In the first year of the Tianshou era, rumors of monsters and restless spirits spread as strange incidents erupt across the countryside. When a retired official, Jiang Biejia, is robbed and murdered during a highly ritualized ancestral-tomb ceremony, the dying man scrawls the words "Demon-Subduing Curse", insisting a "demon" will return to kill the true culprit in vengeance. Summoned to investigate, Di Renjie AKA Detective Dee traces the crime to a trail of missing relics: Jiang had recently paid a suspicious sum to a mysterious hunchback, Sun Tuobei, for a cache of "family treasures," which are then stolen in the attack.
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Benny Chan Ho-Man
Di Renjie
Known for
Iceman
En Jing
Liu Yue'er
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Jin Ning
Jiang Wanyi
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Lai Xi
Official Lu
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Liu Jin
Chen Zhong
Known for
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Shi Xuanru
Wang Er
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Fang Yinghua Director
First release August 27, 2025 · Produced in China · Original title 狄仁杰之降魔咒
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Original title
狄仁杰之降魔咒
Original language
Chinese
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Chinese
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China · August 27, 2025
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