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SEASONS OF CHRYSANTHEMUM

By Roderick CABRIDO

Drama - Development 2022

By the end of the Second World War, Manila was the second most-devastated city in the world. Many lives were lost, many loves broken. A present-day scholar discovers the untold love story between a Filipino female guerilla supporter and a Japanese soldier. The unraveling leads her to question how we

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- PHILIPPINES, JAPAN
- Languages
- FILIPINO, JAPANESE, ENGLISH-UNITED STATES
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 110 mn
- Director(s)
- Roderick CABRIDO
- Writer(s)
- Joseph LABAN
- Cast
- Kathryn BERNARDO, Daniel PADILLA
- Producer(s)
- John Paul ABELLERA (ABS CBN Film Productions Inc), Omar SORTIJAS (CLEVER MINDS INC)
- Synopsis
- Love transcends time to bring together two souls that must become one.While working on her Masteral Thesis on her aunt, Maria Orosa, and other heroines of World War II, Praise Yzalin discovers the love letters of another aunt, Julia Yzalin, to a Japanese soldier, Takaji Kuroda. How could that be when Julia was already married before the war began? Afraid that these letters would bring shame to their family, Praise seeks the help of the country's foremost expert on World War II, Dr. Vance Figueroa. As they uncover the true relationship between Julia and Takaji, they both get entangled in their own affair - Praise is engaged, Vance is married. Where there is love, there is fear. Where there is trust, there is betrayal. The story culminates with the discovery of Maria Orosa's grave in Manila and the decision that will change the lives of two people forever.