Mano Po
6.2
2002
1 hr 50 min
Drama
During the Chinese Revolution in 1949, young Chinese copra trader named Fong-Huan marries Elisa, a young and pretty Filipina. The couples children, Daniel and Linda, were raised in a mixture of Chinese and Filipino-Hispanic tradition. These richly cultured people are the ancestors of a dysfunctional third-generation family whose daughters tell their own stories of joy, struggle, and the complex realities in the life of Filipino Chinese families.
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- Cast：
- Maricel Soriano , Richard Gomez , Kris Aquino , Ara Mina , Eddie Garcia , Tirso Cruz III , Eric Quizon
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Reviews
Simply A Masterpiece
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Good story, Not enough for a whole film
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After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
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It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
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