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Jogho (1999)
Genre : Drama
Format : 35 mm / Colour
Language : Malay / Thai
Director :
U-Wei Saari
Writer :
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U-Wei Saari |
... Story, Script &
Screenplay |
S. Othman Kelantan |
... Original Story (novel - Juara) |

Cast :
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Khalid Salleh |
... Mamat |
Normah Damanhuri |
... Minah |
Adlin Aman Ramli |
... Sani |
Baharuddin Omar |
... Lazim |
Ijoy Azahari
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... Salim
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Sabri Yunus
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... Jali
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Normala Omar
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... Mek Yah
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Aznah Hamid |
... Zainab |
Liza Rafar |
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Crew :
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Amir Muhammad |
... Subtitler |
Producer :
U-Wei Saari (Gambar Tanah Licin Sdn
Bhd)
(NHK Japan) -
associate
producer & sponsor
Award :
Best Film (U-Wei Saari) ...
14th Malaysia Film Festival, 1999
Best Director (U-Wei Saari)
... 14th Malaysia Film Festival, 1999
Best Actor (Khalid Salleh)
... 14th Malaysia Film Festival, 1999
Best Screenplay
(U-Wei Saari) ... 14th Malaysia Film Festival, 1999
GAFIM Award (Best Poster) ...
14th Malaysia Film Festival, 1999

Best Film (U-Wei Saari) ...
TV3's Skrin Award 98/99, 1999
Best Film Director
(U-Wei Saari) ... TV3's Skrin Award 98/99, 1999
Best Film Actor (Khalid
Salleh) ... TV3's Skrin Award 98/99, 1999
Best Film Actress (Normah
Damanhuri) ... TV3's Skrin Award 98/99, 1999

Best Actor (Khalid Salleh)
... 43rd Asia Pacific Film Festival in Taipei, 1998
Synopsis :
Malay - Jogho mengisahkan kehidupan
Mamat yang berasal dari Kelantan yang telah berpindah ke selatan Thailand untuk memulakan
penghidupan baru dengan bekerja sebagai pelaga lembu atau lebih dikenali
sebagai jogho.
English - Mamat is a native of Kelantan,
Malaysia, but he had left Malaysia many years earlier to join his brother
Lazim in South Thailand in order to continue making his living as a trainer of fighting bulls (a Jogho).
The practice had been outlawed in Malaysia but continued in Thailand. Mamat lives with his wife and three daughters, three divorcees and one who has not
yet married, but he has sent his only son to boarding school in Kelantan. Mamat and Lazim
are the leaders in a small village that depends mostly on the money won from gambling in
bullfights for its sustenance. The story begins when Lazim is killed by Isa at the bullfighting arena. By
tradition, this leaves Mamat and the young men the responsibility of taking revenge and
thus preserving the honor of the village. Mamat visits Kelantan and arranges for his friend Jaafar to
find and kill the perpetrators. Returning home, Mamat is gored by his new bull and is bedridden for several days.
At the same time Lazim's two sons and a friend have gone into the town and managed to kill
Isa's son Hamdan and his assistant Dollah Munduk. After the killing, the young men hide and Mamat is arrested by the Thai police,
leaving the women alone to manage not only the village affairs but also to care for the
bull. From the jail, Mamat pleads with his wife to pay the bail so that he will be able to
fight the new bull. He is at last freed on the morning of the bullfight. At the
bullfighting arena, Isa comes to avenge the death of his son. Isa shoots Mamat but miraculously misses his first shot and the second shot
only manages to wound
Mamat in the shoulder. Mamat wrestles the gun from Isa and knocks him to the ground. Now
Mamat has the chance to kill Isa and avenge the death of Lazim, but Mamat refuses as he
has become tired of Malays killing Malays. He lowers the pistol. But Lazim's son Sani
grabs the gun and shoots Isa instead. The police come and Mamat surrenders himself to them, taking the responsibility for
the murder. Although Mamat is taken away by the Thai police, the cycle of violence within
the Malay community continues.
Trivia :
Release date: 28 Mac 1999 (re-released on 30 September 1999)
Jogho was screened at 12 cinemas around Malaysia except at Perlis, Melaka,
Terengganu, Sabah & Sarawak
Premiered at the 2nd Asian
Film Festival 1997 in Tokyo, Japan
Total production cost: RM1.2 million (RM1 million sponsored by NHK Japan)
Filming location:
Thailand
Jogho is the Kelantanese
term use to describe a bullfighter
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