Maricris Sioson - Japayuki (1993)

A parolee falls for a reclusive movie star while trying to evade a ruthless gangster.

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

Holly Parker, the wife of a wealthy diplomat, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who has been romantically pursuing her. She is forced by her mother-in-law to assume a new identity in order to save the reputation of her husband and infant son. She wanders the world, trying to forget her heartbreak with the aid of alcohol and unsavory men. Eventually returning to the city of her downfall, she murders a blackmailer who threatens to expose her past. Amazingly, Holly is represented at her murder trial by her now adult son, who has become a public defender. In the hope of protecting her family, she refuses to reveal her real name and is known to the court as "Madame X".

Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.

In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.

A 12-year-old boy comes of age in 1969 Key West against the backdrop of the Apollo moon landing, when he begins to sell cocaine so his mother can stop stripping.

A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one.

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.