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.
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Zhu Yilong
A Bi
Leo Wu
A Dang
Ni Ni
A Hua
Yang Haoyu
Li Yuanxing
Chen Minghao
Mr. Chen
Ni Dahong
Boss Wu
William Franklyn-Miller
Thomas Newman
Li Jiuxiao
Qian Jin
Wang Yiquan
A Kui
Kevin Lee
Lt. Col. Stuart
Director
Fei Zhenxiang
Tagline
"Any Chinese can be a hero."
Status
Released
Original Language
ZH
Budget
$80,000,000
Revenue
$50,155,648
Production
The Seventh Art Pictures, Tao Piao Piao 淘票票, Beijing Culture 北京京西文化, Beijing Enlight Pictures, China Film Group Corporation
CinemaSerf
August 29, 2025
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...
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