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Dong Ji Dao

2025 [CHINESE]

Action / Drama / Thriller / War

Dong Ji Dao

2025 [CHINESE]

Action / Drama / Thriller / War

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82% TOMATOMETER · 11 reviews

82% AUDIENCE

6.3/10 · 1.5K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Hu Guan

Top cast

Ni Ni as Hua

Kevin Lee as Lt Colonel Stewart

Lei Wu as Dang

Soji Arai as Yano

Tech specs

720p.BLU 1080p.BLU

1.2 GB

1280*448

Chinese 2.0

Not Rated

Subtitles

24 fps

2 hr 13 min

Seeds 16

2.47 GB

1920*672

Chinese 5.1

Not Rated

Subtitles

24 fps

2 hr 13 min

Seeds 10

Comments 2

mihindu 245 days ago

Good MOVIE ......

UXPXYTT911 256 days ago

This movie deserves a far better rating than it has on IMDb. One of the best war time films made in the past 25 years, along with China's other great wartime film Dead to Rights. Both films have the same American-style war film bravado, but not a lot of current day CCP propaganda. Must watch for fans of this genre.

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7 / 10

If you saw Fang Li’s documentary from 2023

CinemaSerf

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…

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, the other wants to rescue the man and after some scuffling and legerdemain, “Newton” finds himself on the island and the focus of a search by the forces now under the command of a particularly savage young lieutenant. Meantime, the stricken ship is slowly sinking and as the islanders can see the smoke and hear the explosions, they determine to set sail against the overwhelming firepower lined up against them, and try to save the people in the water being routinely slaughtered by machine-gun fire. There is a fair amount of CGI here and it’s not great, but the substance of the story quite successfully manages to mix the actual history with the courageousness of the fishermen and a little magical fantasy - these two brothers have positively Atlantean diving skills and can hold their breaths and fight the currents formidably - and is consistently paced throughout. The calculating violence and savagery of their enemies is well illustrated here and the two sibling characterisations are engagingly presented as their journey takes them, and the feisty “Hua” (Ni Ni) out to sea and into the teeth of a slaughter. The philosophy of the dramatisation reminded me at times of a bit of “Bridge over the River Kwai” meets “Tenko”; epitomised the oppression faced by a community that probably hadn’t changed much in generations and that was in no way equipped to deal with the rifle-armed squad of bullies who took control of their island for no real reason beyond that they could, and that that population was beneath their contempt. It’s a bit long, and clearly has a degree of modern-day jingoism to it’s style and presentation, but it keeps an important-to-remember story alive, and works well enough.

7 / 10

Dongji Rescue

CinemaSerf

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…

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, the other wants to rescue the man and after some scuffling and legerdemain, "Newton" finds himself on the island and the focus of a search by the forces now under the command of a particularly savage young lieutenant. Meantime, the stricken ship is slowly sinking and as the islanders can see the smoke and hear the explosions, they determine to set sail against the overwhelming firepower lined up against them, and try to save the people in the water being routinely slaughtered by machine-gun fire. There is a fair amount of CGI here and it's not great, but the substance of the story quite successfully manages to mix the actual history with the courageousness of the fishermen and a little magical fantasy - these two brothers have positively Atlantean diving skills and can hold their breaths and fight the currents formidably - and is consistently paced throughout. The calculating violence and savagery of their enemies is well illustrated here and the two sibling characterisations are engagingly presented as their journey takes them, and the feisty "Hua" (Ni Ni) out to sea and into the teeth of a slaughter. The philosophy of the dramatisation reminded me at times of a bit of "Bridge over the River Kwai" meets "Tenko"; epitomised the oppression faced by a community that probably hadn't changed much in generations and that was in no way equipped to deal with the rifle-armed squad of bullies who took control of their island for no real reason beyond that they could, and that that population was beneath their contempt. It's a bit long, and clearly has a degree of modern-day jingoism to it's style and presentation, but it keeps an important-to-remember story alive, and works well enough.

10 / 10

Revealing the Truth Through Images, Freezing Courage in Time

kobato-63535

Dong Ji Dao is a film that condenses historical memory and the brilliance of humanity onto the big screen. It not only recreates the heroic maritime rescue by…

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