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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 Light is a howl of anguish from one of the most celebrated figures in Philippine cinema.
| Media | Movies Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc) |
| Number of discs | 1 |
| Released | June 12, 2018 |
| Original release date | 1975 |
| EAN/UPC | 0715515216012 |
| Label | Criterion CCIN2894BR |
| Genre | Drama |
| Dimensions | 137 × 171 × 9 mm · 100 g (Weight (estimated)) |
| Playtime | 02:05:00 |
| Region code | Region A (Americas, East and Southeast Asia) |
| Language | Original language |
| Subtitles | English |
| Director | Lino Brocka |
| Skuespiller | Joonee Gamboa |
| Skuespiller | Spanky Manikan |
| Skuespiller | Hilda Koronel |
| Skuespiller | Bembol Roco |
| Skuespiller | Lou Salvador Jr. |
| Skuespiller | Pio De Castro III |
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