Dong Ji Dao
In 1942, the Japanese ship Lisbon Maru with British POWs aboard was torpedoed. Dongji fishermen risked their lives to rescue over 300 British soldiers and protected and rescued three British individuals during a large-scale search by Japanese forces.
Hailed as one of China’s most technically ambitious films to date, this epic documentary dramatises the sinking of the Lisbon Maru - a deadly, little-known disaster that claimed the lives of hundreds of British POWs. After the vessel was mistakenly struck by an American submarine off China’s Dongji Island, more than 800 survivors were rescued by Chinese fishermen in an extraordinary act of wartime bravery. (Subtitles)
China 2025 Zhenxiang Fei & Guan Hu 133m
