Dongji Rescue

2025 PG-13 2h 14m

7.0 / 10 22

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7.0/10

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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 Hu

Writers

Dong Runnian Chen Shu Zhang Ji

Stars

Zhu Yilong Leo Wu Ni Ni

William Franklyn-Miller

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Geronimo1967 29 Aug 2025

7/10

If 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 ont...