
Adil, a young Muay Thai kick-boxer, has just fled an honor fight-to-the-death. Ilham, an assassin who is also Adil's stepbrother, is promptly hired by the organizer of the death match to kill the fugitive. Looking for somewhere to hide and recover, Adil and a childhood friend take shelter in the Bunohan boxing club where Adil started his career. Ilham, meanwhile, has never been back to Bunohan since the day he left many years ago. Upon returning, memories of loneliness and ab... (Full plot summary below)
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Adil, a young Muay Thai kick-boxer, has just fled an honor fight-to-the-death. Ilham, an assassin who is also Adil's stepbrother, is promptly hired by the organizer of the death match to kill the fugitive. Looking for somewhere to hide and recover, Adil and a childhood friend take shelter in the Bunohan boxing club where Adil started his career. Ilham, meanwhile, has never been back to Bunohan since the day he left many years ago. Upon returning, memories of loneliness and abandonment flood his mind, and he experiences waves of resentment and regret. Bakar, the third brother, has also come home from the city; ostensibly a respectful schoolteacher, he is in reality a greedy and ruthless person, and is trying to convince his father to sell a burial ground to a construction company.
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| User ReviewHanafi ZDeep by layers, Dark in contrast. So original! |
| User ReviewChris AAntara filem terbaik Malaysia. Tahap2 French film dah ni. Puas ati aku. |
| User ReviewKee Man COne of rare Malaysian films that touches a dark theme of betrayal and family bond. Deserves credits for its genuine touch especially the use of Kelantanese dialect to portray the real scene in the state of Kelantan (Malaysia). |
| User ReviewMizie Ha film that i can consider one of the best movie from Malaysia's modern filmmaker. |
| User ReviewAzif Igreat cinematography and a fascinating multilayered storyline |
| User ReviewFarina AThis is one kickass film! It got picked up, so if you have a chance to see this strange, beautifully shot gem of a martial arts/spiritual epic, do it. Malaysia is the new wild west. |
| User ReviewDave CMalaysia's entry for the Foreign Film Oscars is stunningly brilliant. |
| User ReviewJustin WDain Said has demonstrated a certain mastery in storytelling, cinematography in this deceptively layered film. |
| User ReviewPoklah TBunohan is a fascinating insight into the reality of life and culture of rural communities that are so bound by tradition and superstition. The story of the conflict between three brothers - who are separated from earlier in their life, who develops personality so different from each other. These brothers then was dragged back home by their destiny, each with their own agenda and thus became an analogy of the contradiction between modernity and tradition in the daily life in a rural community. Between blood relations, lust, greed, revenge, heritage and memories of the past, all of these elements are mixed, giving rise to the turn of events by the human characters in this film that leads into the narrative climax. |
| User ReviewZulhilmi GA cold-blooded contract killer is on the prowl for the head of an up-and-coming kickboxer, who owns a piece of land that a schoolteacher greedily covets in his pursuit of money--All three of them being half-brothers. If that doesn't catch your attention, add in the quirks of a wayang kulit tok dalang father who's turning senile, a broken quasi-mystical family, the dark side of underground Muay Thai, a truly rustic-bordering-on-poverty-stricken Kelantanese setting, and spectacular cinematography in the swamps and coasts of Kelantan. I must admit, the film really deserves all those awards (I'm still amazed that they filmed in croc-infested waters!). This film is a statement that says there's still hope for the Malaysian film scene. Hats off to the director, producers, and actors. All the praises aside, there are parts of it which I still don't understand , though, particularly the mystical aspects. |