Mumbaki

Mumbaki
  • Release date: 14 Aug 1996
  • Release year: 1996
  • Runtime: 130 minutes
  • Country: Philippines, United States
  • Keywords: filipino drama, one word title, ifugao, fixed marriage, shaman, rice terraces, revenge, mountain, medicine man, land dispute
Plot:
Joseph (Raymart Santiago) is a young doctor who returned to his hometown in the Mountain Province to bury his father, an Ifugao chieftain, who was killed during a tribal dispute. While there, he discovers rich heritage and acquires pride in his being Ifugao. Though the lure of a career in US remains strong, he is unable to resist the urge to help his barrio, which has resisted modern medicine and is now in the midst of a pneumonia epidemic and a civil war.
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