

Rescue at Dongji
Any Chinese can be a hero.
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $80M
- Box office
- $50.2M
- Language
- Mandarin
- world war ii
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical22 Aug 2025
United KingdomGB
- PremiereOdeon Leicester Square, London15 Aug 2025
- Theatrical1522 Aug 2025
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical14 Aug 2025
ChinaCN
- PremiereBeijing5 Aug 2025
- Theatrical8 Aug 2025
- Digital / OTT4 Oct 2025
FranceFR
- Theatrical (limited)129 Oct 2025
GermanyDE
- Theatrical29 Aug 2025
Hong KongHK
- Theatrical28 Aug 2025
IndonesiaID
- Theatrical17+8 Oct 2025
IrelandIE
- Theatrical22 Aug 2025
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical29 Aug 2025
SingaporeSG
- TheatricalNC1623 Oct 2025
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical151 Jul 2026
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Rescue at Dongji was released on 8 August 2025.
Audience reviews
1- C7/10
CinemaSerf
8/29/2025
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 t…
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