BEIJING — It is not at all that rare for censors to wreak havoc on films here in China — cutting, say, several scenes from “Bohemian Rhapsody” depicting Freddie Mercury’s homosexuality.

The latest movie to seemingly fall afoul of censorship, however, is a big-budget Chinese film of the sort that has long been a staple here: a patriotic drama of soldiers resisting the Japanese invasion in 1937.

The July 5 opening of “The Eight Hundred,” the first movie in China filmed entirely in Imax, has been abruptly canceled, according to a terse statement posted Tuesday on the film’s official account on Weibo, the Twitter-like social media site.

The delay — or, perhaps, worse — followed the movie’s last-minute withdrawal from the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival, where it was scheduled to premiere on June 15.