Merantau Warrior

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MERANTAU WARRIOR





“BLOODY, BRUTAL, BRILLIANT.” – COMBAT MAGAZINE

ON DVD 07.06.2010

Asia’s newest martial arts action star, Iko Uwais, blasts on to the screen in Merantau Warrior, a rousing action-thriller that introduces Western audiences to the rarely-seen on screen Indonesian martial art of Silat, an incredible combination of strikes, joint manipulation, bladed weapons, throws and animal-derived fighting techniques that take hand-to-hand combat into a whole new realm.

Echoing the visceral thrills of recent martial arts hits such as ‘Ong Bak’ and ‘Chocolate’, Merantau Warrior unleashes a fresh new wave of Asian filmmaking that has been hailed by Harry Knowles at AintItCoolNews.com as “non-stop AWESOME’ and by John Mosby of Impact Magazine as “jaw-droppingly good… on a par with Bourne.”

Written and directed by Welsh-born Gareth Evans (Footsteps), Merantau Warrior stars Iko Uwais as Yuda, a young farmer and skilled Silat practitioner from Minangkabau in West Sumatera. Following a centuries old tradition, Yuda is about to embark on his ‘merantau’, a rite of passage that requires him to leave his home and family to make a name for himself in the wider world. He heads for the bustling city of Jakarta, where he immediately finds himself homeless, jobless and alone. A chance run-in with a juvenile street thief, Adit, leads Yuda to an encounter in which he is compelled to defend Adit’s elder sister, Astri, from a violent situation involving her abusive employer, Johni, and his henchmen.

Unknown to Yuda, Johni is a major supplier of local girls to a human trafficking ring led by a volatile psychopath, Ratger, and his right-hand man, Luc, and he needs Astri to make up the numbers in his latest delivery. Johni kidnaps the girl and, once again, Yuda comes to her aid, this time rescuing her from the traffickers’ clutches in a striking one-man assault on their headquarters. Injured in the confrontation, Ratger determines to seek bloody retribution and to recover his ‘merchandise’ in the process. Yuda, Astri and Adit are forced to go on the run in the unforgiving city with a swarm of pimps and gangsters dogging their every step. With escape seemingly beyond their grasp, Yuda realises he has no choice but to face their foes head-on in a no-holds-barred showdown.

Building to an adrenaline-charged, jaw-dropping finale, “Merantau’s mix of muscle, melancholy and mighty martial arts impresses” (Impact Magazine) and will no doubt leave audiences desperate to see just what director Evans and star Uwais will come up with next.

TRAILER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJo3zMjnVw0

Merantau Warrior (cert. 18) will be released on DVD (£12.99) by E1 Entertainment on 7th June 2010. Special Features include: Making of Feature; Behind the Scenes; Deleted Scenes; Theatrical Trailer; UK Promo; Easter Eggs.

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MERANTAU WARRIOR IS OUT NOW ON UK DVD

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In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau," a century's old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community's young men that will see him leave the comforts of his idyllic farming village and make a name for himself in the bustling city of Jakarta. After a series of setbacks leave Yuda homeless and uncertain about his new future, a chance encounter results in him defending the orphaned Astri from becoming the latest victim of a European human trafficking ring led by the wildly psychotic Ratger and his right-hand man Lars. With Ratger injured in the melee and seeking both his "merchandise" and bloody retribution, Yuda's introduction to this bustling city is a baptism of fire as he is forced to go on the run with Astri and her younger brother Adit.

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[Blesson1]

MERANTAU WARRIOR is very nice movie.