Merantau, released in some countries as Merantau Warrior, is a 2009 Indonesian martial arts action film written, directed and edited by Gareth Huw Evans, and starring Iko Uwais. The film, which marks Uwais' debut as an actor, is the first collaboration between director Evans and star Uwais. It also marks the acting debut of Yayan Ruhian, both of whom Evans met while shooting for a documentary in Indonesia which became his introduction to the Pencak Silat martial art.
The film showcases the Minangkabau tradition of "Merantau", a rite of passage where a man leaves his home to pursue a career or gain experience outside of the village, a culture where inheritance is largely matriarchal. It showcases Yuda who leaves his village in hopes of teaching Silat in Jakarta, only to be sidetracked as he attempts to save a girl from being kidnapped. The film showcases a style of Silat known as "Silek Harimau" (Tiger Silat).[1][2] It also features actors Donny Alamsyah and Alex Abbad who, along with Uwais and Ruhiyan, would later appear in Evans' subsequent films in The Raid (2011) and The Raid 2 (2014).
Evans' first major feature film, Merantau premiered at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival in South Korea on 23 July 2009, before being released theatrically on 6 August in Indonesia. It won the Jury Award for Best Film at the inaugural 2010 ActionFest in North Carolina.[3]
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families of Jakarta's criminal underworld. Like Evans' previous films Merantau and The Raid, the fight scenes showcase Indonesian fighting style of pencak...
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Site" Merantau at IMDb "Merantau – Official Site" Archived 17 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine Goss, William. "Fantastic Fest Review: Merantau", Moviefone...
contacted by the two of them to assist in the making of his first film Merantau but at that time he had just been appointed a civil servant and turned...
Gullick 2000, p. 21. Nelmawarni Bungo, Nordin Hussin; Merantau ke Kuala Lumpur: Tradisi merantau dan berdagang masyarakat Minang, 2011 Yip Yoke Teng; Muhamad...
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through merantau experience, a young man can attempt to influence his own destiny in positive ways. Increasingly, married couples go off on merantau; in such...
Masyarakat. In addition, he also published several novels and books such as: Merantau ke Deli ("Going Away to Deli"), Kedudukan Perempuan dalam Islam ("Women's...
University Press, 1996). Musa, M. Bakri (1999). The Malay Dilemma Revisited. Merantau Publishers. ISBN 1-58348-367-5. Roff, William R. Origins of Malay Nationalism...
14710/jmsni.v3i2.6082. S2CID 213376374. "Mengenal Suku Bawean yang Suka Merantau" (in Indonesian). kompas. 2015. Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford (1830). The...
[usurped][usurped] Journal Bungo, Nemawarni (2011). "Merantau ke Kuala Lumpur: Tradisi Merantau dan Berdagang Masyarakat Minang" (PDF). Geografia: Malaysian...
(Whispering Sands; 2001) Puteri Gunung Ledang (Princess of Mount Ledang, 2004) Merantau (Find Oneself; 2009) Jamila dan Sang Presiden (Jamila and the President;...
Land- en Volkenkunde, Deel 39. Kato, Tsuyoshi (2005). Adat Minangkabau dan merantau dalam perspektif sejarah. PT Balai Pustaka. ISBN 979-690-360-1. Raffles...
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