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08/08/2025 Drama, History, War 2h 14m
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Any Chinese can be a hero.

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.

  1. Guan Hu

    Director

  2. Dong Runnian

    Writer

  3. Fei Zhenxiang

    Director, Writer

  4. Zhang Ji

    Writer

  5. Chen Shu

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Zhu Yilong

    A Bi

  2. Leo Wu

    A Dang

  3. Ni Ni

    A Hua

  4. Yang Haoyu

    Li Yuanxing

  5. Chen Minghao

    Mr. Chen

  6. Ni Dahong

    Boss Wu

  7. William Franklyn-Miller

    Thomas Newman

  8. Li Jiuxiao

    Qian Jin

  9. Wang Yiquan

    A Kui

  10. View more

Full Cast & Crew

Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-08-29
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 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. T...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Chinese

Budget
$80,000,000.00

Revenue
$50,155,648.00

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