The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru
Documentary
8.6/10
|CN
|zh
|122 min
Release Date: 2024-08-31
Overview - Filmmaker Fang Li and his crew explore exhaustive historical investigation, as far as possible to find the core of the British, American, Japanese and Chinese parties and descendants, trying to infinitely close to the truth of the World War II "Death Ship" — "Lisbon Maru", which is 30 meters under the sea off the East Polar Island in Zhoushan, China.
Production Companies
Laurel FilmsEmei Film StudioShanghai PMF Pictures
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7/10
It is quite interesting that it took over seventy years before anyone tried to discover this wreck, but once it was found nestling in the sand it opened up quite a can of worms as we discovered that it was a freighter carrying two thousand tons of wartime supplies and 1,800 British POWs. These men had been ordered to surrender after the fall of Hong Kong and were being taken to “a beautiful land” ...
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