When Steele, a nuclear weapons expert, decides to make a public announcement to reveal the secrets that have been long-buried in his heart, he is suddenly hijacked and murdered. His suitcase which contains top-secret information is lost, shocking the entire world. Soon, a mysterious ship and a group of unidentified foreigners appear in China's territorial waters. They prepare to salvage a nuclear bomb left by a certain superpower in the deep sea during the Cold War and simultaneously carry out terrorist attacks. The target of the terrorists is not a certain capital city, but they intend to detonate the nuclear bomb in the active Pacific Ring of Fire thereby causing an earthquake and tsunami, so that dozens of coastal countries will be wiped out in a fatal disaster. At the critical moment of imminent peril, with the full cooperation of China's National Anti-Terrorism Center and the military, a quarrelsome but loving couple team up to successfully defeat the terrorist plot, saving tens of millions of lives, and sublimating the relationship between the husband and wife …
(Source: Translated from Douban)
Ocean Rescue has premiered in China on April 15, 2023 and cast members include Yan Yikuan and Qu Jingjing. It is directed by Shen Dong, whose filmography comprises mainly propaganda and Republican-era movies targeted solely at the local Chinese market such as A Promise to the Kurichenko's (2015) and On the Mountain for Tai Hang (2015).
