Filmmaker Fang Li and his crew explore exhaustive historical investigation, as far as possible to find the core of the British, American, Japanese and Chinese parties and descendants, trying to infinitely close to the truth of the World War II "Death Ship" — "Lisbon Maru", which is 30 meters under the sea off the East Polar Island in Zhoushan, China.
Li was born in 1953, in Chengdu. He graduated from the East China Institute of Geology (now East China University of Technology) with a major in applied geophysics. In 1989, he received an MBA degree from WakeForest University in the United States. In 2000 he founded Laolei Film Company and Beijing Laolei Film and Television Culture Co., Ltd.