Other cast members included HIM Damsyik and Rasyid Subadi. The American visual anthropologist Karl G. Heider writes that the Indonesian adaptation followed the Hollywood version closely, with some shots the same. He notes several differences, however. The man cast ashore with the children is not a cook, like in the American film, but Emi's father; the children meet and are ultimately deified by the natives of the island, rather than avoid them; the castaways learn of sex from watching a rape and not through experimentation; and ultimately the children return home of their own volition, rather than by accident. Heider notes that the islanders in "Pengantin Pantai Biru" are "ignoble savages" and "barbarians", a portrayal of tribal peoples common in contemporary Indonesian cinema; he notes comparable portrayals in "Intan Perawan Kubu" ("The Virgin of Kubu"); which takes place in Jambi, and "Dia Sang Penakluk" ("She, the Conqueror"; ), which takes place amidst the Dani of West Papua. Unlike the "fearsome" natives of the original film, which was based on a perception of natives as either noble or dangerous, Heider suggests that the "ludicrous" natives in "Pengantin Pantai Biru" were drawn from a prototype of a "funny dumb animal" similar to the orangutan. "Pengantin Pantai Biru" was released in 1983. It was a commercial failure. The film was banned as pornographic in East Kalimantan.