Dongji Rescue

11

2h13

Action

Release date : 29 Aug 2025

With Zhu Yilong , Leo Wu , Ni Ni , Haoyu Yang , Minghao Chen by Hu Guan , Zhenxiang Fei

October 1942, most of China is living under the shadow of imperial Japan. Following the Fall of British Hong Kong in December 1941, many British service personnel were taken prisoner. The Lisbon Maru — a Japanese merchant ship covertly carrying around 1,800 British POWs in the Far East — is torpedoed by mistake off the coast of China’s Dongji Island by an American submarine, unaware of the lives hidden below deck. Guided by the code of the islanders — “those in peril at sea must be saved”, two young fishermen, brothers Abi (Zhu Yilong) and Adang (Wu Lei), risk everything to hide a British army medic (William Franklyn-Miller) in their village after being spotted drifting in the sea. A brutal manhunt by the Japanese forces to find the missing soldier ensues. As the ship begins to sink, and the truth about the POWs stranded at sea comes to the surface, the villagers set out on a perilous mission to rescue the British soldiers and reclaim their land.

Based on a true story long buried beneath the waves, Dongji Rescue is an epic story of human courage and survival that transcends borders and languages.
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Deze film wordt deels Chinees (Mandarijn), Japans en Engels gesproken en ondertiteld in Engels en Chinees (Mandarijn).

This film is spoken in Mandarin, Japanese and English and is fully subtitled in both English and Chinese (Mandarin). 

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