A former underworld crime boss now runs a company that cleans up death scenes, which requires him and his assistant to visit accident sites and witness the many facets of human life. Things becomes complicated when his daughter returns to their hometown. (Source: screendaily.com) Edit Translation
- English
- Русский
- हिन्दी
- Español
- Native Title: 人生清理員
- Also Known As: Jen Sheng Ching Li Yuan , Ren Shen Qing Li Yuan , Чистильщик , 人生清理员
- Screenwriter: Chin Shih Chieh
- Director: Chen Ta Pu
- Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Cast & Credits
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![Rhydian Vaughan in The Cleaner Taiwanese Drama(2024)]( "Rhydian Vaughan in The Cleaner Taiwanese Drama(2024)")
Rhydian VaughanLee ChuanMain Role -
![Vivian Sung in The Cleaner Taiwanese Drama(2024)]( "Vivian Sung in The Cleaner Taiwanese Drama(2024)")
Vivian SungHo Li YingMain Role -
![Chin Shih Chieh in The Cleaner Taiwanese Drama(2024)]( "Chin Shih Chieh in The Cleaner Taiwanese Drama(2024)")
Chin Shih ChiehHo DragonMain Role -
![Tsai Jia Yin in The Cleaner Taiwanese Drama(2024)]( "Tsai Jia Yin in The Cleaner Taiwanese Drama(2024)")
Tsai Jia YinCheng Yi WenMain Role -
![Huang Guan Zhi in The Cleaner Taiwanese Drama(2024)]( "Huang Guan Zhi in The Cleaner Taiwanese Drama(2024)")
Huang Guan ZhiChen One TwoMain Role -
![Lu Yi Ching in The Cleaner Taiwanese Drama(2024)]( "Lu Yi Ching in The Cleaner Taiwanese Drama(2024)")
Lu Yi Ching[One Two's mother]Support Role
Reviews
slice of (traumatic) life
i decided to give it a go and watch it with my limited mandarin. the story centers around surprisingly loving co-worker group who earn money by cleaning death scenes. the cleaner is a slice of life to the core, and has some serious tear jerking moments. the acting was really selling point of the series. hopefully, it gets subbed somedayWas this review helpful to you?
You can't clean the ugly side of humanity, nor wash away it's pain
The Cleaner feels less like a show and more like a glimpse into the raw, unfiltered side of life we rarely want to confront. It’s about a team of people who clean up after death, and it never sugarcoats that premise. It’s not comedy, not poetic, not horror either, it’s exactly what it is: human lives ending, and other humans quietly dealing with the aftermath.The experience of watching it is heavy. Not disgusting, but suffocating in its honesty. Death here isn’t stylized, it just is. The blood isn’t meant for horror fans to gawk at, it’s a reminder of life’s fragility, of the silence left behind. That’s why binge-watching it was a mistake; the bitterness builds, leaving you with a kind of emotional hangover, a heaviness in the chest that lingers.
The acting is incredible. Every performance feels raw and stripped-down, no glossy makeup, no artificial beauty, just vulnerability and pain portrayed with sincerity. The color grading matches the tone: muted, neither bright nor monochrome, but somewhere in between, like life itself when stripped of pretense.
I didn’t cry watching it, but I felt like I could, and maybe that’s more powerful. The show traps you in that liminal space between wanting to weep and being too afraid to let go, because maybe breaking down would mean admitting just how much it hurts.
Some episodes reminded me how resilient humans can be in their darkest times. Others made me recoil at how ugly we can become. In the end, The Cleaner is a slice of life—bitter, relentless, and deeply human.
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