8.3
Night and Fog
1956
“Any Chinese can be a hero.”
Dongji Rescue (2025)
August 8, 20252h 14mZH
7.0
22 votes
Overview
Inspired by the real life rescue of over 300 British soldiers in 1942, Dongji Rescue is a rousing, action-packed story of heroism on the high seas. When the Japanese warship Lisbon Maru is torpedoed off the coast of Dongji Island, the lives of over 300 British POWs on board are at risk of being claimed by the sea. Their only hope is a small group of defiant Chinese fisherman who will do anything to rescue and protect them from their captors.
Director
Guan HuWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
Mandarin
Budget
$80.0M
Revenue
$50.2M
Production Companies
The Seventh Art PicturesTao Piao Piao 淘票票Beijing Culture 北京京西文化Beijing Enlight PicturesChina Film Group Corporation
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CinemaSerf
7.0If you saw Fang Li’s documentary from 2023 on the sinking of the “Lisbon Maru” then you’ll know it was a freighter travelling from Hong Kong to Japan carrying over a thousand British POWs. It was torpedoed by an US submarine and to say the treatment of the prisoners by their captors was inhumane would be the mother of all understatements! What this dramatisation does is shift the emphasis more onto the brutality of the occupying forces on a nearby Chinese island. There, the local population were controlled by a small garrison and prohibited from taking their fishing boats out to sea. There are…
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