Moonchild

Moonchild (1988)

Itanong mo sa Buwan

When she's bored, she's bold.

A robbery goes wrong and the bank's teller Josie is abducted by the gunman Angelito Asuncion. A few weeks pass and Josie escapes to tell a tale of terror and mayhem. She asserts to have faked falling for him in order to win his trust while Angelito surfaces to claim otherwise.

Date of release
1988-09-09
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 55m
Genres
Drama, Thriller, Crime
Director
Chito S. Roño

Casting

Interesting facts

Itanong Mo sa Buwan, internationally titled as The Moonchild, is a 1988 Philippine crime thriller drama film directed by Chito S. Roño from a story and screenplay written by Armando "Bing" Lao. With the plot being similarly patterned to Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon, it follows a bank robber and a woman whom he held hostage who describe the events of the bank robbery. It stars Mark Gil, Jaclyn Jose, and Anjo Yllana, with the supporting cast including Anita Linda, Tita Muñoz, Susan Africa, Lucita Soriano, and Fernando Morato.

Production

During the course of the production, the relationship between lead stars Mark Gil and Jaclyn Jose blossomed into a romance while they were filming in San Pablo, Laguna.

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