Raja Bersiong

Raja Bersiong (1968)

Raja Bersiong, the Fanged King, is a cannibal monarch in the Kedah epic literature Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa (HMM). A king with an intense appetite for human blood that over time he grew fangs and began attacking his own people to feast on them.

Date of release
1968-01-01
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 48m
Genres
Fantasy, History, Thriller, Horror
Director
Dato' Haji Jamil Sulong

Casting

Interesting facts

Raja Bersiong is a 1968 Malaysian Malay-language historical epic film Malay film directed by Jamil Sulong and based on a story by former Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman. Despite costing RM 750,000 to produce, ten times the cost of the average Malaysian film, it was a flop at the box-office.

Production

The 1968 production of Raja Bersiong was filmed at the Malay Film Productions studio in Singapore and on location in Alor Setar, Malaysia. It was filmed in colour wide-screen CinemaScope, the first for a Malay film. In order to handle the technical aspects of the filming, a Japanese crew was hired. The Japanese crew took over the production, but it caused problem in communication due to the language barrier.

The film had a production cost of RM 750,000, ten times the cost of an average Malaysian film at that time. The film was completed in 1967, but released in 1968.

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