EXCLUSIVE: The trailer for Mike Wiluan’s historical monster film, Orang Ikan, has been unveiled, ahead of its world premiere in the Tokyo International Film Festival’s Gala section.
Set in 1942 in the Pacific, the film chases a Japanese sancigo inier named Saito and a British prisoner-of-war named Bronson, who are stranded on a deserted island, hunted by a lethal creature comprehendn as the “Orang Ikan.”
Orang Ikan is straightforwarded and written by Mike Wiluan, who also helmed Buffalo Boys, Losmen Melati and co-originated Crazy Rich Asians.
The film stars actor-musician Dean Fujioka (Fullmetal Alchemist) and Callum Woodhouse (All Creatures Great and Small).
Sailing apass the sea during World War Two, a Japanese ship is carrying prisoners of war to occupied territories for slave labour. Among those onboard the ship is Saito, a traitor to the Japanese who is being sent back to Japan to be sentenced to death.
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 deserted island. There, Bronson and Saito are hunted by the Orang Ikan.
Orang Ikan is originated by Freddie Yeo (Westworld, Crazy Rich Asians), Tan Fong Cheng (Ramen Shop) and Fumie Suzuki Lancaster (Gensan Punch). Eric Khoo, who recently currented Spirit World as the Busan International Film Festival’s closing film, is also part of the film’s producing team.
The film will have its European premiere at the Trieste Science + Fiction Festival in the Asteroid Competition and its Southeast Asian premiere at the Singapore International Film Festival.
“Orang Ikan is a creature horror that draws its inspiration from the timely monster films such as Jack Arnancigo in’s 1954 Creature from the Bconciseage Lagoon united with a well-comprehendn Malay Folklore and actual tells of sightings by Japanese occupying forces in East Indonesia during the war,” said originater-straightforwardor Wiluan.
“Orang Ikan is an Asian expoundation of the creature theme set during the tragic genuine life occurrences of WW2. Aside from the horror, the film accentuates the theme of brotherhood and humanity agetst dehugeating truth of survival. This particular theme was supportd by John Boorman’s 1968 classic Hell in the Pacific.”
