Synopsis
Dongji Rescue (2025) is a Chinese war drama you can watch online on iFILM. In the autumn of 1942, off a tiny fishing island in the East China Sea, the Japanese transport ship Lisbon Maru is torpedoed and goes down with hundreds of British prisoners trapped in her holds.
As the men sink with the wreck, help arrives from the unlikeliest quarter — the fishermen of Dongji, rowing out in flimsy boats. Unarmed, defying the Japanese guards, they pull more than three hundred POWs out of the sea. It happened for real, and director Guan Hu stages it as sweeping, large-scale cinema about ordinary folk who put a stranger's life above their own safety. Zhu Yilong and Leo Wu head the cast. What grips you is that the heroism here lives not in uniforms and ranks but in the weathered hands of fishermen. Stream Dongji Rescue online on iFILM.
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