Director – Fei Zhenxiang, Guan Hu – 2025 – China – Cert. 15 – 133m The first hour and a half **1/2 The last half hour ****1/2 Chinese islanders under Japanese Occupation in WW2 set out to rescue a thousand plus British prisoners from a sinking, torpedoed ship – streaming on UK VoD from Friday, […]
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Dongji Rescue
(Dong Ji Dao,
東吉 嶼)
- Post author By Jeremy Clarke
- Post date August 22 2025
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東吉 嶼) - Sticky post
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