‘The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru’ Review: Little-Known Pacific War Tragedy Deserves Better Than This Lumbering Doc
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variety.comManuel Betancourt On Oct. 1, 1942, a Japanese freighter carrying over 1,800 British POWs captured during the Battle of Hong Kong was torpedoed by an American sub.
The chaos that followed — wherein members of the Japanese army shot any prisoner aiming to swim to safety while a slew of fishing boats helped in their rescue — resulted in more than 800 of those British soldiers dying.
Tracing that little-known event and the vast grief it left behind in the UK, Fang Li’s “The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru”nevertheless feels like a dull history lesson that’s truncated by its many ambitions.
Li is front and center in his documentary. The trained geophysicist-turned-filmmaker has spent much of his life exploring the world underwater.
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