Fang Li couldn’t quite believe his ears when a fisherman shared the story behind what would become the Chinese filmmaker’s latest documentary, — a Han Han-directed road-trip comedy-drama — and it was while heading out from the coast of eastern Zhejiang province towards Dongji Island that the fisherman told a tale that had, for seven decades, remained remarkably untold.
In the aftermath of the strike — and as the ship slowly sank — Japanese troops locked the POWs inside the cargo holds. But the POWs fought for their lives, breaking free and taking to the waters, only to be shot at by the Japanese before local Chinese fishermen arrived and started plucking them from the water. In the end, 384 men survived and 828 perished, either in the hold or in the water.
The filmmaker in Fang knew that he had a movie just waiting to be made. It then took six years to put together. First Fang had to find the sunken ship — which had laid untouched on the ocean floor since 1942 — then he had to find witnesses to the event, and maybe even survivors. The China Film Pavilion is also designed to update visitors on the state of play on the ground in the country. Among the domestic successes has been the Korean war drama, which premiered on China’s National Day and grossed $161 million by the end of the month. There has also been the rollout of the re-release of thefranchise, week by week from October 11, with the first two installments combining for around $14 million by month’s end.
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