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Oscar-Contending Doc ‘The Sinking Of The Lisbon Maru’ Tells Incredible WWII Story Of Villainy And Heroism
'The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru,' directed by Fang Li, tells an incredible WWII story of villainy and heroism.
This was the scene, in the ocean waters around a remote island off the Chinese coast: “On October 2, 1942, the Lisbon Maru, a Japanese freighter carrying 1,816 British prisoners of war, was torpedoed in the East China Sea by an unwitting American submarine. The Chinese geophysicist, marine technologist, robot designer, and filmmaker challenged himself to locate the sunken vessel and resurface the tale of villainy and heroism behind it. “I heard this story 10 years ago when I was shooting a feature film on the island [of Zhoushan] with a young director, popular writer in China, and he and I were sitting on an upper deck on a yacht.
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