Rescue at Dongji (2025)
Any Chinese can be a hero.
Director: Guan Hu, Fei Zhenxiang · Writers: Dong Runnian, Zhang Ji, Chen Shu, Fei Zhenxiang
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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Director
Guan Hu
Fei Zhenxiang
Cast
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 
Soji Arai
Rovaif Babar
User Reviews (1)
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. There are two brothers, reputedly with pirate blood, who ignored this ban though and it was on one such trip that “Bi” (Yilong Zhu) and “Dang” (Lei Wu) discover the malnourished and emaciated “Newton” (William Franklyn-Miller) floating on the water. One thinks they should leave well alone…
