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Rescue at Dongji

Any Chinese can be a hero.

8.4(74)20252h 14m3

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.

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    CinemaSerf

    8/29/2025

    7/10

    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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