Mat Sentol
Biography: Abdul Rasip bin Yahya (born 26 July 1933) or better known as Mat Sentol was one of the actors at Cathay-Keris Film Productions, Singapore around the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He is considered as the 'Father of Special Effect' in Malay cinema history through his directorial films, which were also acted by himself, with each at the beginning of the film's title beginning with the word Mat taken in conjunction with his name. In addition to acting and directing, he is also talented in the field of animation, drama and film scriptwriter, make -up artist and the use of special effects for which he creates various filming techniques in his directorial films.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 26, 1933
Deathday: N/A
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Pak Pandir Modern
1960-01-01
Pak Pandir Modern
Overview: The film tells of Pak Pandir, a rich man who uses a strange approach to his daily life. She raised her four children using a strict disciplinary approach such as having to get up early in the morning, to sleep early at night, and not to mix with women as well as the common people in the village. However, without her knowledge, her children were already hanging out with the people in her village. The problem begins when her children compete against each other to win the heart of a girl who is in fact a dumb girl who is an individual who desperately wants her daughter to marry rich and wealthy people. Unfortunately, without the knowledge of his children Mr Pandir himself managed to get the girl to be his wife.
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Original Language: ms
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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3 Bald Men
1965-01-01
3 Bald Men
Overview: Mat, Wahid and Badak are three happy-go-lucky friends. All unemployed, the men struggled to make ends meet. One stormy night, a lost girl seeking shelter wanders into their home and disrupts the otherwise peaceful lives of the bachelors. Despite their inability to understand each other, the trio develops a bond with the girl in their attempt to sell her away for money. In a side plot, housewife Lela awakes to find her husband and daughter missing from the bed and frantically heads out in search of answers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ms
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Enter Wind, Come Out Smoke
1963-01-01
Enter Wind, Come Out Smoke
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ms
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Mat Karong Guni
1970-01-01
Mat Karong Guni
Overview: Mat is contented working as a rag-and-bone man. He is offered a paper bag that he thinks is just filled with shards of glass. It turns out to contain jewels worth millions of dollars that he unknowingly gives away to his friend Hamid. The owner sends his henchmen on a wild goose chase to hunt down the bag. This bewilders Mat as he is forced to be on the run. He puts on various disguises and encounters a slew of obstacles and colourful characters along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ms
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Mat Bond
1967-01-01
Mat Bond
Overview: Mat has always dreamt of becoming a secret agent since he was young. After accidentally finding and consuming an elixir that grants indestructibility, he gets his wish when he is hired to retrieve a briefcase that contains these elixir pills. With a motley crew on his tail, Mat realises that leading a spy’s life like James Bond is harder than he imagined.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ms
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Mat Raja Kapor
1967-01-01
Mat Raja Kapor
Overview: Following the events in Mat Bond, Mat arrives in the kingdom of Darul Funfair and finds himself entangled in a sinister conspiracy of a corrupt minister attempting to poison the Sultan of Darul Funfair and preventing the crown prince from ascending the throne. The crown prince (a doppelganger of Mat) who is disinterested in being a royal, escapes and Mat is mistaken for the prince by the royal guards and the Sultan. In typical Mat fashion, he basks in the chaos and confusion of the mixed identities situation and brings the evildoers on a wild goose chase in search of a missing crown jewel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ms
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Mat Pirate
1968-01-01
Mat Pirate
Overview: Mat works at a turtle slaughterhouse and discovers a tiny book of magical spells that he believes will transform his life. He quits the job and begins a journey of exploring the world of magic with the book. All his plans go awry when a group of pirates forcibly recruits him as a cook and he is made to take part in robbing a village and kidnapping the village chief and his daughter, Mariam. Mat escapes with Mariam and teams up with a band of colourful villagers to rescue the village chief from the pirates’ hideout.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ms
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Mat Toyol
1969-01-01
Mat Toyol
Overview: For selfish and petty gains, the village head enlists the help of the medicine man to conjure a toyol (child spirit) for him to own. However, the medicine man constantly fails in his concoctions. They hear rumours of Mat possessing the ability to conjure toyols and decide to take advantage of him, recruiting Mat as the medicine man’s assistant to do the hard work. Meanwhile, the medicine man’s wife who is frustrated with her husband’s failures, leaves home to reclaim a dark heritage of her own. As Mat seeks the secret ingredient for the concoction, he experiences hysterical encounters with the world of black magic, witches, talking animals and dancing skeletons.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ms
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Mat Tenggek
1979-01-01
Mat Tenggek
Overview: A scientist who is very well known for his very exaggerated inventions among the villagers created a plane one day and brings along his very pregnant wife to follow along. It was pretty much bad timing when his wife gave birth to a child and adding more to their unfortunate state the plane malfunctioned and landed in the woods. The child surprisingly survived who was in the end being brought up by goats.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Mat Magic
1971-01-01
Mat Magic
Overview: Mat lives on Ghost Island and is an amateur magician who always makes mistakes in all his performances. One day at sea, he meets a troupe led by a famous American magician, John Calvert, and invites them to perform at the birthday party for the King of Ghost Island.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ms
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Mat ¾ (Mat Tiga Suku)
1964-01-01
Mat ¾ (Mat Tiga Suku)
Overview: ”Tiga suku”, which literally translates into “three quarters”, is a Malay term used in the context of describing crazy, whacky or oddball-like behaviour; of being mentally “not quite there”. And “Mat Tiga Suku” is indeed an eccentric film that seeks to subvert our usual sense of logic, decorum and good taste. In this film, Mat Sentul is a poor and helpless man, lives in a house that talks to him, and daydreams about wealth and pretty princesses. It is an episodic adventure that follows the slapstick antics of Mat Sentul who, among many pranks, moves the bus-stop at his will, halts an aeroplane that does not give way, and pretends to be an office worker, a barber and a doctor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ms
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Mat Spy
1985-01-01
Mat Spy
Overview: Mat Spy is a Malay film published in Malaysia in 1985. Mat Movie Spy published in the form of color film. Spy movie directed by director Mat Sentol.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ms
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Pontianak Gua Musang
1964-01-01
Pontianak Gua Musang
Overview: The story evolves around Amran and Rohani who are a couple who have slept together one night in front of Gua Musang. Amran then went off to sail but to cover up the shame he brought Rohani on the outskirt are of the village. On his return he was surprised not to have found Rohani there. He found out soon enough that Halimah killed Rohani because she wanted Amran. As of that Rohani’s spirit haunts Halimah in her dream in a form of a tiger.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: ms
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Dua Kali Lima
1966-01-01
Dua Kali Lima
Overview: The film tells the bickering between Kulop Great and Small Kulop. Both of them operate a tailoring shop. In order to attract customers, many ways to do them ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Si Murai
1968-01-01
Si Murai
Overview: The festivities of Mior Sebatang comes to a halt when a group of cruel bandits led by the powerful Megat Hitam, robs and wipes out the village in a massacre. They take the village head’s daughter, Melor as hostage. The royal palace receives news of the tragedy and Prince Kelana defiantly leaves the palace with his aide to rescue his kidnapped fiancée. Hoping to protect her son, the queen devises a secret plan enlisting the help of her confidante Murai, who possesses mystical powers, to pursue and destroy the bandits ahead of Kelana. With the support of fellow warrior Kancil (played by Mat Sentol), Murai infiltrates the bandits’ hideout. Meanwhile, in his journey to gather firepower, Kelana and his aide discovers the world of other skilled pugilists and vigilantes.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ms
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Anak Dara
1966-01-01
Anak Dara
Overview: Zaleha, a beautiful young woman gets betrothed to Zaki, her staunch and religious childhood sweetheart in an arranged marriage that seems to be a perfect union since the pair have been infatuated with one another. However, family friend Untung (played by Mat Sentol) desires to take Zaleha as his second wife and conspires with the nosy matchmaker Mak Andam to concoct a scandalous love affair that Zaleha had before marriage. Zaki chances upon the fabricated proof on the wedding night and believes Zaleha to be tainted. He self-righteously insults his newly wedded wife and distances away from her, much to the confusion and annoyance of their families, as Zaki is suspected to be impotent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ms
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Sumpah Pontianak
1958-01-01
Sumpah Pontianak
Overview: The original "Pontianak" was made in 1957 directed by B.N. Rao and starred Maria Menado.The film was such a hit that in quick succession, two sequels were made "Dendam Pontianak" aka "Revenge of Pontianak" later in the same year (1957) and "Sumpah Pontianak" aka "The Curse of Pontianak") in 1958,both with Maria Menado."Dendam Pontianak" started the trend of introducing more than one supernatural being into the story,the other character being an old witch Nenek Kebayan(The Old Woman of the Forest)and by the time "Sumpah Pontianak" was made that had increased to four-female vampire Pontianak,an Orang Hutan(Wild Forest Man),a kind of bird-lizard creature and a Hantu Raya or "King Ghost"."Sumpah Pontianak" is an entertaining Malay horror movie with cheap special effects.The main female character Comel is infected by been infected with sumpah pontianak,the curse of the vampire and the villagers begin to die!
Genres: Horror Music
Original Language: ms
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Tajul Ashikin
1963-01-01
Tajul Ashikin
Overview: A prince take decision to leave the palace and begin his journey with his friend, disguise as merchants, in order to know his people better.
Genres: Adventure Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Siti Zubaidah
1962-01-01
Siti Zubaidah
Overview: Siti Zubaidah is based upon the 19th century poem 'Syair Siti Zubaidah Perang Cina'. It centers on Siti Zubaidah, the wife of Sultan Zainal Abidin, who is left defenseless after her husband is taken hostage by a Chinese empress. She eventually allies herself with Princess Rukia of Yunnan, who had fled her own palace under threats of sexual assault. Taking matters into their own hands, they adopt male identities and lead a military conquest across China to rescue the Sultan. Directed by B. N. Rao and starring Maria Menado, the Cathay production borrowed from both of its niches at the time: the film language and costume styles of Malay cinema and Chinese wuxia films, resulting in an imagined reality fusing both visual cultures. At the core of the myriad garbs, armour, accessories and makeup donned by the characters, the tale chronicles the adoption of transformative identities to overcome adversity, enact justice and revenge.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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