The Rape of Malaya

Mata Hari was Malay Film Productions second war movie based on the Japanese invasion of MalayaSingapore in 194142 released a few months after the resounding success of Lamberto Avellana and P Ramlees Sergeant Hassan Written by Abdul Razak who did the scripts for the Pontianak film series and directed by the prolific Ramon Estella the movie stars beauty queen Maria Menado of Pontianak fame as Matahari the daughter of a kampong headman who is captured by the Japanese She witnesses the atrocities committed by the invaders who tortured her father to death and rounded up innocent women to become prostitutes and mistresses for their commanders Not wanting to cower to the enemy Matahari which means the sun in Malay and was also the name of a reallife WWI German spy decides to form and lead a guerrilla force to fight the Japanese