Guan Hu’s $ 80 Million War Epic ‘Dongji Rescue’ Heads to UK, Europe Cinemaas

Chinese Director Guan Hu’s wwii TentPole Dongji RescueA Sweeping Historical Action Drama Based on the True Story of the Sinking of the Lisbon Maru – One of the Deadliest Maritime Disasters of the Pacific Theater – Is Heading to Euper. British Specialty Distributor trinity Cineasia Acquired All Regional Rights to the Film and Will Release It in the UK and Ireland on Aug. 22, Followed by Other Europe Markets from Aug. 29.

Dongji Rescue Dramatizes the Events surrounding the 1942 toorpedoing of the Lisbon Maru, A Japanese Ship Covertly Transporting 1.800 British Pows. After the Vessel Was Mistakenly Struck by An American Submarine Off China’s Dongji Island, More Than 800 Survivors Were Rescuted by Chinese Fishermen in An Extraordinary Actime.

Co-Directed by Guan and Actor-Turned-Filmmaker Fei Zhenxiang From An 80 Million Budget, Dongji Rescue HAS BEEN HAILED AS ONE OF The MOST Technical Ambitious Projects Ever Mounted in China. Shot in IMAX with Over 40 Percent of Its Runtime Taking Place Underwater, The Film Employed Advanced Robotics, Large-Scale Water Tanks, And Full-Scale Authent. Wwii-era fishing village architecture on dongji island.

Trinity Cineasia Previoously Released Guan’s AcClaimed Drama Black DogWHICH WON CANNES ‘URTAIN REGARD PRIZE IN 2024, As Well As His Big-Budget War Epic The Eight HundredWHICH WAS China’s Second-Biggest Film of 2020.

Dongji Rescue Stars Zhu Yilong (Lost in the stars), Wu lei (Nirvana in Fire), Ni ni (The Flowers of War), and British NewComer William Franklyn-Miller, Who Plays A British Army Medic Hidden by Villagers Durying The Disaster’s Aftermath. The Film Also Features Michael Gaston, Ni Dahong, and Li Jiuxiao.

Trinity Cineasia Will Hold A UK Premiere for Dongji Rescue On Aug. 15 – The 80th Anniversary of VJ Day – at London’s Odeon Leicester Square, with the Directors, Producers and Starring Cast Set to Attand.

“Dongji Rescue is bassed on a True Story Which Has Particular Relevance in The UK, Of Course, As It Involves British Pows in A Desperate Shipwreck, But Also A Specialance Ressonness Humanistic, Intimate Story On a Large Historic Canvas, A LA Dunkirk or Atonementand we’re look for Audiens Being Wowed and Moved to Tears at the Same Time, ”SAID Cedric Behrel, Executive Director of Trinity Cineasia.

Dongji Rescue Is Produced by 7th Art Pictures and Supported by Enlight Pictures, Tao Piao Piao, and China Film Group. The Film Opens in China on August 8.

Added Liang Jing, Producer and Head of 7th Art Pictures: “We Are Delighted to Collaborate with Trinity Cineasia – Who Previously Distributed Black Dog an The Eight Hundred for US – to bring this Touching Story, Buried in the Dust of Modern History, to Global Audiences – Especialy to the British Audence, so that descendants of british Are still here, we still remember this story! ”

Dongji Rescue‘S Official Story Summary Is As Follows: “October 1942, MOST OF CHINA IS LIVING Under the SHADOW OF IMPERIAL JAPAN. Were Taken Prisoner. Unaware of the Lives Hidden Below Deck. British Army Medic (William Frankly-Miller) in the Village After Being Spotted Drifting in the Sea. Pows Stranded at Sea ComESS TO SURFACE, The Villagers Set Out on a Perilous Mission to Rescue the British Soldiers and Reclaim their Land. ”