Bukit Kepong (film)

Bukit Kepong (English: Kepong Hill) is a 1981 Malaysian Malay-language war film produced and directed by Jins Shamsuddin starring himself, A. Rahim and Hussein Abu Hassan. The film was based on the Bukit Kepong incident in 1950. The film has won eight awards in the third Malaysia Film Festival in 1982, including Best Film.

This article is about Bukit Kepong film. For the 1950 communist siege incident, see Bukit Kepong incident. For the small town in Johor, see Bukit Kepong.

Bukit Kepong
Directed byJins Shamsuddin
Written by
Screenplay byJins Shamsuddin
Story byASP Ismail Johari
Based onBukit Kepong incident
Produced byJins Shamsuddin
Starring
  • Jins Shamsuddin
  • A. Rahim
  • Hussein Abu Hassan
CinematographyS. Mohan
Edited byJohari Ibrahim
Production
company
Jins Shamsudin Productions
Release date
  • April 29, 1981 (1981-04-29) (Malaysia)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryMalaysia
LanguagesMalay
English
Mandarin
BudgetMYR 1.3 million
Box officeMYR 1.7 million

In 2014, the film was re-edited by United Studios (a distributing and marketing company of KRU International), which had invested MYR 100,000 in restoring and improvement for high definition (HD) display resolution of the original film. It was reproduced in HD version; as Bukit Kepong Versi Digital HD a year later. For this restoration, the movie was cropped to 16/9 instead of its original academy ratio and electronic stereo widening has replaced the original mono soundtrack, thus distorting the director’s original vision. The technical works was done by Prodigital Lab (owned by KRU Malaysia).

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