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37		<h1 id="website-title" class="primary">The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru</h1>
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68                            <td colspan="" rowspan="" width="100%" align="" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>(Click <a TARGET="_blank" HREF="https://www.lisbonmaru.org.uk/page/Default" >here</a> if you are looking for LiMMA, the <em>Lisbon Maru</em> Memorial Association).</strong></div>
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92                                </table></td><td colspan="" rowspan="" width="68%" align="" valign="top"><p align="center" style="text-align: left;"><span size="3" style="font-size: large; font-family: 'arial black', arial, sans-serif;"><strong>2024 Winner Golden Silk Road Award - Best Documentary</strong></span></p>
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131                            <td colspan="" rowspan="" width="100%" align="" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'book antigua', 'palatino linotype', garamond, georgia, 'times new roman', 'ms mincho', serif;">This is not a film about war. It is a film about the effects of war&nbsp;</span></strong></span></div>
132<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'book antigua', 'palatino linotype', garamond, georgia, 'times new roman', 'ms mincho', serif;">on families.&nbsp;</span></strong></span></div>
133<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'book antigua', 'palatino linotype', garamond, georgia, 'times new roman', 'ms mincho', serif;">For generations.</span></strong></span></div>
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135<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'book antigua', 'palatino linotype', garamond, georgia, 'times new roman', 'ms mincho', serif; font-size: large;">Producer &amp; Director Fang Li interviews the late Ron Brooks, son of Master Gunner Charles Brooks who perished in the sinking.</span></strong></div>
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147                            <td colspan="" rowspan="" width="100%" align="" valign="top"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'book antigua', 'palatino linotype', garamond, georgia, 'times new roman', 'ms mincho', serif; font-size: x-large;">In 2000, while researching another book, Hong Kong based British historian and author </span><span style="font-family: 'book antigua', 'palatino linotype', garamond, georgia, 'times new roman', 'ms mincho', serif; font-size: x-large;"><a TARGET="_blank" HREF="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Banham" ><span style="font-family: 'book antigua', 'palatino linotype', garamond, georgia, 'times new roman', 'ms mincho', serif; font-size: x-large;">Tony Banham</span></a></span><span style="font-family: 'book antigua', 'palatino linotype', garamond, georgia, 'times new roman', 'ms mincho', serif; font-size: x-large;"> heard the story of the sinking of the <em>Lisbon Maru</em> and raced to find survivors and documents before it was too late. His original book was published in 2006.</span></p>
148<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'book antigua', 'palatino linotype', garamond, georgia, 'times new roman', 'ms mincho', serif; font-size: x-large;">In 2014, while making another film, China based producer Fang Li heard the story from the fishermen of Zhoushan who had saved so many lives that day. He vowed to record the facts, building on Banham&rsquo;s earlier research and taking it to another level. That work started in 2018 and &ndash; despite huge challenges caused by the pandemic and necessary funding &ndash; was completed in 2024.</span></p>
149<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'book antigua', 'palatino linotype', garamond, georgia, 'times new roman', 'ms mincho', serif; font-size: x-large;">The film&rsquo;s Premiere was at the Shanghai International Film Festival in June that year, and it went on release in China on 6 September. It quickly realized a score of </span><span style="font-family: 'book antigua', 'palatino linotype', garamond, georgia, 'times new roman', 'ms mincho', serif; font-size: x-large;"><a TARGET="_blank" HREF="https://movie.douban.com/subject/30412658/" ><span style="font-family: 'book antigua', 'palatino linotype', garamond, georgia, 'times new roman', 'ms mincho', serif; font-size: x-large;">9.3 on Douban</span></a></span><span style="font-family: 'book antigua', 'palatino linotype', garamond, georgia, 'times new roman', 'ms mincho', serif; font-size: x-large;"> and <a TARGET="_blank" HREF="https://m.imdb.com/title/tt33095194/?ref_=ttawd_ov" ><span style="font-family: 'book antigua', 'palatino linotype', garamond, georgia, 'times new roman', 'ms mincho', serif; font-size: x-large;">8.5 on IMDB</span></a>, becoming a surprise hit.</span></p>
150<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'book antigua', 'palatino linotype', garamond, georgia, 'times new roman', 'ms mincho', serif; font-size: x-large;">In the same month it won Best Documentary at both the Golden Silk Road Awards in Xian and Golden Rooster in Xiamen, and was originally picked by China&rsquo;s government as the nation&rsquo;s official entry in the category of International Films at the 2025 Oscars. However, as more than 50% of the dialogue was in English - interviews with the families of the men on board - it was moved to the Best Documentary category.<br /></span></p>
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197<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'book antigua', 'palatino linotype', garamond, georgia, 'times new roman', 'ms mincho', serif; font-size: x-large;">On October 1st 1942, the American submarine <i>Grouper</i> fired six torpedoes at a Japanese troop transport, the <i>Lisbon Maru</i>, off Shanghai. Five of the unreliable Mk 14 fish either passed under the target or failed to detonate, but one exploded against the stern, bringing the ship to a standstill. <i>Grouper</i> immediately came under attack from patrol boats and aircraft, and departed the scene, taking one last look at 700 Japanese soldiers being taken off the stricken vessel.</span></p>
198<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'book antigua', 'palatino linotype', garamond, georgia, 'times new roman', 'ms mincho', serif; font-size: x-large;">What they didn&rsquo;t see, however, was that those soldiers had battened down the hatches over the holds as they left. In those holds, trapped and waiting to drown in appalling conditions of filth, disease, and malnutrition were 1,816 British Prisoners of War who had been captured at the fall of Hong Kong nine months earlier.</span></p>
199<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'book antigua', 'palatino linotype', garamond, georgia, 'times new roman', 'ms mincho', serif; font-size: x-large;">None need have died, but only 748 returned to Britain alive. This is the story of the ship, the submarine, the men, and the impact on their families.&nbsp;</span></p>
200<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'book antigua', 'palatino linotype', garamond, georgia, 'times new roman', 'ms mincho', serif; font-size: x-large;">It is also a timeless story of everyday heroism, survival, and humanity.</span></p>
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