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Title:            Director:           Cast:                           Prod. Com.:  Genre:     Notes:

Perfidia		Rogelio de la Rosa
Tatlong Maria	Gerardo de Leon	Carmen Rosales, Norma Blancaflor, Liwayway Arceo, Fernando Poe, Sr., Jose Padilla, Jr., Ely Ramos, Pedro Faustino, Fred Montilla	Toho Film Distributing Co. Ltd.	Drama
The Dawn of Freedom	Gerardo de Leon, Yutaka Abe	Roma Aguirre, Norma Blancaflor, Angel Esmeralda, Shigenoba Kawazu, Fernando Poe, Sr., Leopoldo Salcedo, Ichirô Tsukida, Denjirō Ōkōchi	Eiga Heikusa, Toho Film Distributing Co. Ltd.	War Drama	aka Ano Hatte O Utte, this film was made by the Japanese occupation authorities in the Philippines as a propaganda film to show the Filipino people the "benefits" of the Japanese invasion and takeover of their country. Director Gerardo de Leon was notified by the Japanese authorities that he had been selected to direct this film. When he protested that he was a doctor - he had passed his medical exams just a few years prior to the invasion - and preferred to practice medicine instead, he was told, "There are many doctors in the Philippines, but only one director". Real American and Filipino POWs were used as "extras" in this film, which was a clear violation of the Geneva Convention. A scene was filmed showing the withdrawal of American forces from Manila during the Japanese invasion. Large crowds of Filipino civilians showed up for the filming, and the Japanese authorities were pleased at the turnout. They were not pleased to later discover that the reason for the large crowds was that the Filipinos wanted to see and talk to the American and Filipino POWs who were being forced to portray "enemy" troops.
Liwayway Ng Kalayaan	Gerardo de Leon	Rosa Aguirre, Norma Blancaflor, Angel Esmeralda, Fred Montilla, Fernando Poe, Sr., Tessie Quintana, Carmen Rosales, Leopoldo Salcedo	Eiga Heikusa, X'Otic Films	Action, War