Directed by:
Lino BrockaScreenplay:
Clodualdo Del Mundo Jr.Composer:
Max JocsonCast:
Hilda Koronel, Bembol Roco, Lou Salvador Jr., Joonee Gamboa, Mario O'Hara, Nina Lorenzo, Sibyl Santiago, Pio De Castro IIIPlots(1)
Lino Brocka broke through to international acclaim with this candid portrait of 1970s Manila, the second film in the director’s turn to more serious-minded filmmaking after building a career on mainstream films he described as “soaps.” A young fisherman from a provincial village arrives in the capital on a quest to track down his girlfriend, who was lured there with the promise of work and hasn’t been heard from since. In the meantime, he takes a low-wage job at a construction site and witnesses life on the streets, where death strikes without warning, corruption and exploitation are commonplace, and protests hint at escalating civil unrest. Mixing visceral, documentary-like realism with the narrative focus of Hollywood noir and melodrama, Manila in the Claws of Lightis a howl of anguish from one of the most celebrated figures in Philippine cinema. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Hilda Koronel
Philippines
Best movies:
Weighed But Found Wanting (1974)
Manila in the Claws of Brightness (1975)
Insiang (1976)
![Bembol Roco](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/355/161355681_158774.png)
Bembol Roco
Best movies:
Amigo (2010)
Manila in the Claws of Brightness (1975)
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
Lou Salvador Jr.
Best movies:
Joonee Gamboa
Philippines
Best movies:
The Bucket List (2007)
Weighed But Found Wanting (1974)
Manila in the Claws of Brightness (1975)
Mario O'Hara
Philippines
Best movies:
Weighed But Found Wanting (1974)
Manila in the Claws of Brightness (1975)
Nina Lorenzo
Best movies:
Weighed But Found Wanting (1974)
Manila in the Claws of Brightness (1975)
Insiang (1976)
Sibyl Santiago
USA
Best movies:
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Manila in the Claws of Brightness (1975)
Definitely, Maybe (2008)
Pio De Castro III
Best movies: