The Killer is also a black humor suspense film, directed by Cao Baoping and starring Liu Ye, Zhang Yi, Duan Bowen, Olivia and Tan Zhuo.

The film tells the complicated tracing behind a murder case and the false life of the people involved.

The film was released in China on September 16. On June 9th, 20 16, Liu Ye won the Best Actor Award of 19 Shanghai International Film Festival for this film.

Synopsis: A murder happened in a small town in the southwest of China. A motorcycle driver was brutally killed and all his money, mobile phone and motorcycle were taken away. Song (Liu Ye), a simple and honest owner of a car repair shop, became the suspect of the police and villagers because of his enmity with the deceased.

In the case that the police have no clue, Song can only rely on his own strength to start tracking down the murderer and wash away the grievances.

He followed the tracks of the stolen motorcycle tires of the deceased and found the lonely gangster Wang Youquan (Duan Bowen). At this time, Wang Youquan suddenly broke up with his innocent girlfriend (Wang) and prepared to go south. He decided that Wang Youquan was the murderer and wanted to hand him over to the judiciary.

However, after Wang Youquan told the story of how he stole the motorcycle, Song began to find that the murderer was someone else, and there was a huge conspiracy behind the murder. Dong Xiaofeng (Zhang Yi), a nightclub foreman who was released from prison, is making final preparations for taking Pingjie (Tan Zhuo), a dancer.

Because of this murder, the lives of Song and Wang Youquan were completely changed. The fates of the three men are related to each other, and a scene of chasing the murderer is staged in the wild west? .