Manila Boy

Manila Boy
Directed by Arturo San Agustin
Produced by Vic del Rosario (Viva Films Executive Producer)
Written by Eddie Joson
Starring Robin Padilla
Music by Magnum "Jun" Garlan
Cinematography Danny Bustos
Ricardo Herrera
Ben Lobo
Joe Tutanes
Edited by Edgardo "Boy" Vinarao
Production
company
Pioneer Films
Distributed by Pioneer Films, Viva Films
Release dates
22 September 1993
Country Philippines
Language Filipino
Tagalog
Budget P55 million

Manila Boy is a 1993 Filipino crime action comedy-drama film which starring Robin Padilla, Tony Ferrer, Aurora Sevilla, Andy Poe, Berting Labra, Rommel Padilla and Judy Ann Santos. Directed by Arturo San Agustin under Pioneer Films.

Plot

This is a story about Diego (Robin Padilla), a wacky provincial man from Zambales to find a job for works to Manila with Mang Berto (Berting Labra) and finding Mang Berto's long time friend Sibuboy (Val Iglesia) to met Diego for helping him and he likes to willingly work with Sibuboy as his business partner. Suddenly Mang Berto escapes when the cops captured Diego and Sibuboy as a gun runners. Then Ragoy (Romy Diaz) and his men prepares for released Diego and Sibuboy to out of jail and applied for a works to a millionaire kingpin Señor Escudero (Tony Ferrer) as their big boss and hunts against his enemies about the drug smuggling, sex trafficking, hoodlum in roads, and illegal gambling for Señor Escudero's businesses and Gonzalo (Paquito Diaz) taking care of Señor Escudero's decision. Diego remains his alias and become a hitman as Manila Boy.

Cast

Manila Boy Movie was disqualified

Robin Padilla's movie was disqualified by the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) in 1993, because of the movie title Manila Boy. The name of the Philippine capital, Manila, is kindly not better for the Philippine government, but the showing of the movie was postponed all over Metro Manila cinemas. The Senate committees investigate Padilla's movie because of the title of the movie poster should being as "Boy" and cancelled "Manila" on Padilla's movie poster.

External links

Manila Boy at the Internet Movie Database

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