On Oct. 1, 1942, a Japanese freighter carrying over 1,800 British POWs captured during the Battle of Hong Kong was torpedoed by an American sub. The chaos that followed — wherein members of the ...

China has picked World War II documentary The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru as its submission for the Oscars’ best international feature film category. Directed by Fang Li, the film’s selection is the ...

Detail from the key art for 'The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru' Emei Film Group/Laurel Films/Shanghai PMF Pictures One of the most extraordinary stories from World War II, paradoxically, is one of the ...

The film resurrects an under-documented episode from WWII — the sinking of a Japanese transport ship carrying hundreds of British prisoners of war and the heroic efforts of nearby Chinese fishermen to ...

How One Filmmaker’s Obsession With a Forgotten WWII Tragedy Led to the Doc ‘The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru’ Chinese filmmaker Fang Li discusses stumbling upon the story of the survivors of a brutal ...

The Lisbon Maru was a Japanese cargo ship that was converted into an armed troop ship during World War II. So when it was torpedoed by the USS Grouper on Oct. 1, 1942, it would have been a legitimate ...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sinking of The Lisbon Maru, directed by Fang Li, had its North American Premiere at the Asian World Film Festival on November 18, 2024, where it screened ...

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In late September 1942, 1,816 Allied prisoners of war were imprisoned on a Japanese military cargo liner, the Lisbon Maru, to be transported from Hong Kong to Japan. After three days of smooth sailing ...

"Our ancestors said, all in peril at sea must be saved." Well Go USA has revealed an official US trailer for a Chinese rescue thriller titled Dongji Rescue, set during the early days of World War II ...

Fang Li’s attempt to chronicle the 1942 incident aboard a Japanese freighter carrying British POWs never quite figures out what story it’s trying to tell. Driven by a desire to explore that sunken ...