Bunohan: Return to Murder

Three estranged brothers are drawn back to the village of Bunohan in northern Malaysia for reasons that could not be more different. Adil, the youngest, is a Muay Thai fighter who has fled a brutal illegal bout; Ilham, the eldest, works as a hired killer and has been sent after him, though the two share a family history neither has confronted. The third brother, Bakar, presents himself as a respected schoolteacher but is in fact greedy and ruthless, scheming to persuade their ailing father to sell a burial ground to a construction company. Their return sets them on a collision course involving betrayal, violence and long-buried grievances, with the village itself as the stage for the reckoning.

Bunohan is a 2012 Malaysian action drama directed by Dain Said, who also wrote the screenplay, with Nandita Solomon producing. It was his first feature, followed years later by Dukun. The cast includes Zahiril Adzim as Adil, Faizal Hussein as Ilham, Pekin Ibrahim as Bakar, Bront Palarae as Deng, Namron as Pok Wah and Wan Hanafi Su as Pok Eng. Made on a budget of about two million dollars, the film remains modest in reach: on IMDb it holds a rating of 6 out of 10 from roughly 600 votes, and on TMDB 6.5 out of 10 from a much smaller pool of around two dozen. The two audience scores sit close to each other.