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Rescue at Dongji

2025 • 2h 14m •
Drama History War
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★ 8.3/10
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Rescue at Dongji

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.

"Any Chinese can be a hero."

Top Billed Cast

Zhu Yilong
Zhu Yilong
A Bi
Leo Wu
Leo Wu
A Dang
Ni Ni
Ni Ni
A Hua
Yang Haoyu
Yang Haoyu
Li Yuanxing
Chen Minghao
Chen Minghao
Mr. Chen
Ni Dahong
Ni Dahong
Boss Wu
William Franklyn-Miller
William Franklyn-Miller
Thomas Newman
Li Jiuxiao
Li Jiuxiao
Qian Jin

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C CinemaSerf Verified TMDB Critic
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...