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The brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens (Stål) (Hemiptera: Delphacidae) is a planthopper species that feeds on rice plants (Oryza sativa L.). These insects are among the most important pests of rice, which is the major staple crop for about half the world's population. [ 1 ]
Metro Manila is a 2013 Tagalog-language British crime drama film directed by Sean Ellis. Set in the Philippines, it focuses on a rice farmer relocating his family to the country's metropolitan capital in search of a better life. Ellis also co-produced and co-wrote the film. [1]
Tadhana [a] (English: Destiny) [1] is a 1978 Philippine adult animated musical propaganda film written and directed by cartoonist Nonoy Marcelo in his directorial debut.The film incorporates historical storytelling and satirical comedy that depicted the well-known people and mythological creatures during the Spanish colonization and its Filipino culture.
Release date Title Director(s) Studio [a] Technique Synopsis Ref. 09/21/1978 Tadhana [b] (transl. "Fate")Nonoy Marcelo — Traditional: Based on volumes of novels of the same name by Ferdinand Marcos, a commissioned film portrays a satirical, humorous and poignant view of the Philippines' history of Spanish colonization through highly original and surreal vignettes fusing art, mythology and music.
Amigo centers on Rafael Dacanay, kapitan of the fictional barrio of San Isidro in a rice-growing area of Luzon. [4] His brother Simón, head of the local guerrilla band, has forced the surrender of the Spanish guardia civil outpost and charged Rafael with the task of imprisoning the guardia captain and the barrio's Spanish friar, Padre Hidalgo, in the name of the First Philippine Republic.
Pusô or tamu, sometimes known in Philippine English as "hanging rice", is a Filipino rice cake made by boiling rice in a woven pouch of palm leaves. It is most commonly found in octahedral , diamond, or rectangular shapes, but it can also come in various other intricately woven complex forms.
Philippine New Wave (known as Filipino New Wave or Contemporary Philippine Cinema) is a filmmaking term that has been popularly associated with the resurgence of independent, digital and experimental films in the Philippines began in the 21st century, and merged into a recent filmmaking period known as the Third Golden Age of Philippine cinema.
Alta Vista Productions, Com Productions, Eddie Romero Productions, Lynro Pictures: Action, Drama, Romance, War: B/W: Released in the US by American International Pictures as Lost Battalion, on a double feature with Guns of the Black Witch in 1962. Passed by the British Board of Film Censors as Lost Battalion on 14 June 1962 with an "A" certificate.