Sarawak, in the northeast of the island of Borneo, 1839. Almost by chance, the British adventurer James Brooke is appointed rajah by the Sultan of Brunei, and as an independent ruler he embarks on a personal crusade to eradicate piracy, slavery and headhunting, while trying to curb the malevolent expansionist ambitions of the British Empire.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers
as Sir James Brooke

Josie Ho
as Madame Lim

Dominic Monaghan
as Crookshank

Hannah New
as Elizabeth Crookshank

Ralph Ineson
as Sir Edward Beech

Bront Palarae
as Pengiran Indera Mahkota

Shaheizy Sam
as Subu

Rahim Razali
as Sultan of Brunei

Atiqah Hasiholan
as

Yusuf Mahardika
as
CinemaSerf
I used to collect coins and always remember the Sarawak ones with "J. Brooke - Rajah" on them. Well this is a story of that very man. At the height of British colonial expansion, James Brooke (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) arrives in a land terrorised by marauding pirates with Col. Cruikshank (Dominic Monag...