Overview
No More Bets is a 2023 Chinese crime thriller film directed by Shen Ao and produced by Ning Hao. The film chronicles a story about persons being trafficked to overseas and forced to defraud online. It features Lay Zhang, Gina Jin, Yong Mei, and Eric Wang. The film premiered in China on August 8, 2023 and achieved box office success.
Plot
Programmer Pan Sheng and model Liang Anna were lured overseas by a supposed high paying job. However, it turned out that the promised employment is actually a slave camp-like fraud factory. Being imprisoned and abused by their handler, they are forced to commit cyber fraud on online victims. Through their actions, a stranger Gu Tianzhi got addicted into online gambling. After losing all his savings, Gu attempts suicide by jumping off a building. Gu's girlfriend called the police. Police Zhao Dongran started investigations and eventually cracked down the syndicate.
Cast
Lay Zhang as Pan Sheng, a programmer trapped in the fraud factory
Gina Jin as Liang Anna, a model trapped as a croupier in the fraud factory
Yong Mei as Zhao Dongran, a Chinese police officer
Eric Wang as Lu Bingkun, the manager of the fraud factory
Darren Wang as Gu Tianzhi, a stranger defrauded by Pan and Liang
Zhou Ye as Song Yu, the girlfriend of Gu
Sunny Sun as An Juncai, the second hand of Lu
Additionally, Sheren Tang and Lam Wai appear as Tianzhi's mother and father respectively.
From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).