Awaken

About Awaken

During World War II, photographer Chen Kailai unexpectedly becomes involved in an underground resistance mission to stop the Japanese army’s secret biological experiment. Taking up his fallen mentor’s codename, he joins fellow spies in a perilous fight to expose the enemy’s crimes and prevent a viral catastrophe.

Awaken is a drama series made for iQiyi. It ran for one season of 22 episodes between August 2026 and September 2026.

Ou Hao stars as Chen Kailai, Gulnezer Bextiyar as Jin Bao, William Feng as Du Huangqiao, and Ni Hanjin as Zhao Qian. The story is adapted from a novel.

Shelv files it under 1940s and world war ii.

Band of Brothers, The Diary of Anne Frank, and Catch-22 make useful companions to Awaken.