Kakabakaba Ka Ba? (1980)

Directed by

Mike De Leon

Genre

musical film

Country

Philippines

Runtime

1h 44m

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two couples get tangled up in a conflict between rival drug syndicates from Japan and China. The film is a musical comedy that pokes fun at foreign control over the Philippine economy.

playfulmusicalcomedicsatiricalupbeatromanticchaoticquirky

What happens

Kakabakaba Ka Ba? (English: Does Your Heart Beat Faster?) is a 1980 Filipino musical comedy film directed by Mike de Leon from a screenplay he co-wrote with Clodualdo del Mundo Jr., and Raquel Villavicencio. The film stars Christopher de Leon, Charo Santos, Jay Ilagan, and Sandy Andolong as two pairs of lovers who accidentally find themselves in the middle of a conflict between rivaling Japanese and Chinese drug syndicates. It also features Apo Hiking Society members Boboy Garovillo, Danny Javier, and Jim Paredes, Johnny Delgado, Armida Siguion-Reyna, Leo Martinez, and Nanette Inventor. Produced by LVN Pictures and distributed by D'Wonder Films, the film, theatrically released on August 8, 1980, has been viewed as a satirical commentary on foreign control of the Philippine economy. In 2015, the film was digitally restored by the ABS-CBN Film Restoration Project. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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