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The other Japanese-produced feature film shot in the Philippines was Tatlong Maria (1944). At the same time, the comedy duo Pugo and Togo, popular for satirizing Japanese occupation in the Philippines, was renamed to Tuguing and Puguing because of Togo name's closeness to Tojo, the name of the Prime Minister of Japan during the early 1940s.
Most films made in the Philippines are in Tagalog. Sex and violence are major themes in films, which are often adaptations of American screen productions. American films are popular and readily available, and so high-quality Filipino films have been slow to develop. First run Hollywood films are available on the streets in the form of cheap ...
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Jan 2, 2014 · Charles Restifo Collection (AFC2001/001/5849), Veterans History Project. Once Leyte was secured, U.S. forces proceeded to Luzon, landing on January 9, 1945. Charles Restifo, a combat photographer with the Army Signal Corps serving aboard the USS Mt. Olympus, was part of the fourth wave to hit the beaches during the landing; he then proceeded to ...
“history of cinema in the Philippines” (Deocampo, 2003, pp. 19-22). Such a qualification owes not least to the fact that only five Filipino films released before World War II have survived, and thus, much of what he draws as “influences” are extrapolations from either non-film sources, Spanish- and American-made
Mar 28, 2023 · Another film we’re keeping our eyes on is historical action-drama “Elena 1944,” based on Patrick Valencia’s Palanca award-winning screenplay “The Revenge of the Comfort Woman.” Bernardo will take on the role of Elena, a comfort woman during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. Lamasan calls it Bernardo’s “most daring role yet.”
Jan 10, 2022 · January 10, 2022. Between the surrender of Corregidor in May 1942 and General Douglas MacArthur’s return in October 1944, the people of the Philippines waged a remarkable yet underappreciated war.
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It includes documentaries, experimental films, short films, animation, student films, and other forms deemed outside the typical and conventional blockbuster movie fares. Deocampo drew parallelism between the Philippines during the second world war (1944 to 1945) and the country during the Covid-19 pandemic (2020 to the current period).
