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Jaka Sembung (1981) is a Indonesian movie. Sisworo Gautama Putra has directed this movie. Barry Prima,W.D. Mochtar,Dana Christina,Eva Arnaz are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1981. Jaka Sembung (1981) is considered one of the best Action,Adventure,Fantasy,Horror movie in India and around the world.
Indonesia is a country in turmoil. The people are poor and oppressed by the Dutch Government. However, one hope remains in the form of rebel leader Jaka Sembung. His rebels and his famous fighting ability inspires the people to hang on. Van Shramm, the Dutch representative in Java offers a reward for the death of Sembung and employs a mighty warrior, the invincible Kobar, to go after him. One short fight later Kobar is dead and Van Shramm turns to a magician for him. The magician resurrects the deadly enemy of Sembung, Kieten, to take revenge. Kieten faces Sembung and defeats him - Sembung is imprisoned and blinded by the cruel Van Shramm. However, Van Shramm's daughter has fallen for Sembung and frees him. Sembung again faces Kieten and is overcome by his magic - finally being turned into a pig before escaping the prison. A kindly magician returns Sembung to his human form and teaches him new skills that he will need as he prepares to face Kieten for the final time.
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Jaka Sembung (1981) Reviews
Great fun!
This Indonesian film belongs to the strangest obscure oddities of film history. It offers a wild mix of Action, Fantasy, Horror and Epic, with the title character Jaka Sembung, maybe the most vulnerable super hero ever put on celluloid. Although the production values are laughable compared with almost any American production, the film delivers good entertainment and never becomes boring. The action scenes are trashy, the sometimes astonishingly gory special effects are cheap but effective, and the dramatic story boosts plenty of unintentional humor to make this pic a thoroughly funny experience that certainly bares cult potential.
Amazing!!!
The Warrior, Jaka Sembung, played by Barry Prima, is an Indonesian Robin hood with magical powers who fights evil Dutch Imperialists. This is one little strange movie filled with martial arts, mysticism, blood & gore, and a strong anti-imperialist message. It is also quite funny, and the dubbing is of course priceless. The final battle between the evil Ki Item and the warrior has to be the most weird piece of bloodshed in movie history, and who can forget the sequence where Jaka Sembung gets a new pair of eyes. Essential viewing for fans of Asian weirdness. the U. K. version seems to have some minor cuts, but is still worth watching. Recommended.
fun and gory
Okay I am so glad IMDB has this title. It is great fun. If you see one Indonesian movie in your life let it be this. The Warrior is the story of an enemy of the state who is very strong. He is sent to prison but quickly escapes. The state stops at nothing to capture him. Magick is used to finally capture the hero. He is nailed to a wall and has his eyes gouged. Being nailed and blind doesn't stop our hero from escaping. In the most tender moment of the film the Warriors sister rips out her eyes and gives them to the hero. The finally has levitation magic and a exploding body. See it if you can find it!
Gory, fun and self-righteous
Indonesia is a country in turmoil. The people are poor and oppressed by the Dutch Government. However one hope remains in the form of rebel leader Djaka Semboeng. His rebels and his famous fighting ability inspires the people to hang on. Van Shramm, the Dutch representative in Java offers a reward for the death of Semboeng and employs a mighty warrior, the invincible Kobar, to go after him. One short fight later Kobar is dead and Van Shramm turns to a magician for him. The magician resurrects the deadly of enemy of Semboeng, Kieten, to take revenge. Kieten faces Semboeng and defeats him - Semboeng is imprisoned and blinded by the cruel Van Shramm. However Van Shramm's daughter has fallen for Semboeng and frees him. Semboeng again faces Kieten and is overcome by his magic - finally being turned into a pig before escaping the prison! A kindly magician returns Semboeng to his human form and teaches him new skills that he will need as he prepares to face Kieten for the final time. This is a very cheesy martial arts film. The story is not as complex as it sounds, the camera shots are very 1970's - in short this is the sort of film that should come to mind when you imagine a dubbed martial arts movie from that period. The film is very very cheesy - it's hard to describe, but that doesn't mean it's not fun to watch. The camera constantly zooms in on people's faces to register their surprise - it's quite funny for most of it! Also the camera is used to hit tricks - like the main character is shown jumping off the ground, and then cuts to a shot of him flying through the air, it's not believable but it's often unintentionally hilarious! Also the acting is of a very cheesy variety - the fighter Kobar near the start of the film is a perfect example of the wonderful hamminess that's in this film - the terrible American dubbing in the version I saw didn't help the actors at all! The only performance that's a bit out of tone with the film is the character of Semboeng. He comes across as too self righteous and takes himself too seriously, at some points he even comes across as a Christ-like character (despite being a Muslim) in terms of what he says - at one point he is even paraded through the streets before being nailed to the prison wall, crucifixion-style. Semboeng takes a bit of the fun out of the film as he really is too sombre for this type of thing - but his fights are good! The fights are generally ok - not great but ok. The effects are very cheap and nasty - they're surprisingly gory for the time, but the use of dummies and rubber effects make some scenes look very cheap and amateurish. One visual effect worth seeing is the huge overbite on the evil wizard - those are some big teeth! Overall it's a film of it's time - it's very cheesy and pretty cheap, but it's quite interesting in it's own way and quite funny if you're in the mood for it.
Martial arts epic from Indonesia
If you ever have to see one Indonesian movie in your life, THE WARRIOR would be a pretty good example of the genre as a whole. Packed with insane martial arts and action, tons of gore, sprinklings of sex and sadism and a period-set plot, THE WARRIOR (based on a popular Indonesian comic book) is a real crowd-pleaser of a film which helped to catapult star Barry Prima to fame. Two sequels followed offering up much the same mix of horror and action but THE WARRIOR is the first, and a film that has to be seen to be believed. The notoriously stroppy Prima, an European-looking leading man, makes the role his own and invests it with dynamism and heroism, if not charisma. The plot isn't really what's at stake here, consisting of typical good guys vs. bad guys stuff with an outcome you can easily predict. It's what happens along the way that holds the attention. The film opens with Prima, a slave, escaping from his Dutch captors and leading the villagers into a revolt. A psychopathic, brutal, almost indestructible bounty hunter arrives on the scene, stunning the Dutch with his bull-fighting and fire-breathing activities (!). They send him on a mission to kill Prima, but he ends impaled through the mouth with a spear instead. The Dutch then turn to darker methods to capture Prima, employing a voodoo priest to bring the decapitated body of an evil wizard back to life. What follows is the film's most macabre moment - the coffin rises from the earth and out of it the headless corpse. The wizard's head then also returns to life and levitates back on to the body. Seeking Prima out, the wizard fights Prima with powerful invisible magic and the warrior is captured and thrown in a Dutch prison, where he is crucified to a wall just like in a certain scene in THE BEYOND and with no less gore. To make matters worse, his eyes are gouged out by metal rods leaving him gored and in agony. Prima calls down the power of his god to give him strength and after painfully pulling the nails from his hands, he tears down the wall and leads a prison revolt. The real highlight of the movie is Prima's battle with the reanimated wizard. First he cuts off an arm, then a leg, and then the head of the zombie wizard, resulting in blood spurts all other the place. Incredibly the wizard is able to reattach his severed limbs with surprisingly good special effects work, until he is finally chopped in half in the air and his two halves impaled on swords like kebabs. A fantastic (in both senses of the word) battle, imaginative and excellently realised, what more could you wish for? Well there is more; we have scenes of deadly LEAVES killing people (where else would you see THAT?), people levitating and flying in the air like in a Hong Kong film, plenty of gore, violence, torture, blood, and general brutality, some comic relief and romance for those who like that kind of thing. THE WARRIOR: an Indonesian epic which remains unforgettable to those lucky enough to have seen it.