Mohammad Said Hamid Junid (17 June 1902 â€" after 1962), often
credited as Moh. Said HJ, was a film director, storywriter, and actor
active in the early cinema of Indonesia. After an unsuccessful career
in the theatre he directed some nineteen films, beginning with Boenga
Sembodja in 1942.Said was born in Rengat, Indragiri, Dutch East
Indies, on 17 June 1902. He attended school until age seventeen, when
he dropped out and joined a shipping agency. Dissatisfied with this,
not long afterwards Said became crew on a merchant freighter, a
position which he held for several years. Around 1925, after his ship
had landed at Surabaya, Said joined the Sandiwara Royal Poesie Indra
Bangsawan drama troupe. Over the next seventeen years he would act
with numerous troupes and tour the archipelago, once taking several
months to work on a farm. By 1942 his most recent troupe, Boon's
Toneel, was closed for showing overly politicised stageplays. Usmar
Ismail, later known as a director, suggests that Said saw numerous
disappointments during his theatrical career, leading to him often
changing troupes.In 1942, not long after the Japanese occupied the
Indies, Said made his directorial debut with Boenga Sembodja, a film
featuring music and dance sequences. After this film Said began
working with the Japanese, at the Eiga Haykyusha Ai in Bandung, before
joining Fred Young's Bintang Surabaja Troupe.Said returned to the film
industry in the late 1940s, writing and directing Aneka Warna and
Menanti Kasih. Aneka Warna was a comedy starring Mochsin and R. Busono
which followed two bumbling actors in a search for money. Menanti
Kasih, meanwhile, followed a man named Husni Anwar who had to marry
his benefactor's daughter to repay a debt of honour; featuring an
early song by Bing Slamet, it starred Chatir Harro and Nila Djuwita. Mohammad Said Hamid Junid Top Movies & Young Movies