EXCLUSIVE: The trailer for Mike Wiluan’s historic monster movie, Orang Ikan, has been unveiled, forward of its world premiere within the Tokyo Worldwide Movie Pageant’s Gala part.
Set in 1942 within the Pacific, the movie follows a Japanese soldier named Saito and a British prisoner-of-war named Bronson, who’re stranded on a abandoned island, hunted by a lethal creature referred to as the “Orang Ikan.”
Orang Ikan is directed and written by Mike Wiluan, who additionally helmed Buffalo Boys, Losmen Melati and co-produced Loopy Wealthy Asians.
The movie stars actor-musician Dean Fujioka (Fullmetal Alchemist) and Callum Woodhouse (All Creatures Nice and Small).
Crusing throughout the ocean throughout World Warfare Two, a Japanese ship is transporting prisoners of battle to occupied territories for slave labour. Amongst these onboard the ship is Saito, a traitor to the Japanese who’s being despatched again to Japan to be sentenced to dying.
Saito is shackled to a British POW, Bronson. When the ship is torpedoed by Allied submarines, Saito and Bronson are thrown overboard and wash ashore a abandoned island. There, Bronson and Saito are hunted by the Orang Ikan.
Orang Ikan is produced by Freddie Yeo (Westworld, Loopy Wealthy Asians), Tan Fong Cheng (Ramen Store) and Fumie Suzuki Lancaster (Gensan Punch). Eric Khoo, who just lately offered Spirit World because the Busan Worldwide Movie Pageant’s closing movie, can also be a part of the movie’s producing crew.
The movie could have its European premiere on the Trieste Science + Fiction Pageant within the Asteroid Competitors and its Southeast Asian premiere on the Singapore Worldwide Movie Pageant.
“Orang Ikan is a creature horror that attracts its inspiration from the early monster movies similar to Jack Arnold’s 1954 Creature from the Black Lagoon mixed with a well-liked Malay Folklore and precise studies of sightings by Japanese occupying forces in East Indonesia in the course of the battle,” stated writer-director Wiluan.
“Orang Ikan is an Asian interpretation of the creature theme set in the course of the tragic actual life occurrences of WW2. Apart from the horror, the movie accentuates the theme of brotherhood and humanity in opposition to devastating actuality of survival. This specific theme was impressed by John Boorman’s 1968 traditional Hell within the Pacific.”
