Kung Kasalanan Man

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Kung Kasalanan Man
Directed by Eddie Garcia
Screenplay by
  • Amado Lacuesta Jr.
  • Raquel Villavicencio
Story by Gilda Olvidado
Based onKung Kasalanan Man
by Gilda Olvidado
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJoe Batac Jr.
Edited byIke Jarlego Jr.
Music by Jaime Fabregas
Production
company
Distributed byViva Films
Release date
  • 21 June 1989 (1989-06-21)
Running time
121 minutes
CountryPhilippines
LanguageFilipino

Kung Kasalanan Man (English: If It's A Sin [1] ) is a 1989 Philippine thriller melodrama film directed by Eddie Garcia from a screenplay by Amado Lacuesta Jr. and Raquel Villavicencio, based on a komiks serial of the same name written by Gilda Olvidado. It revolves around two Irmas: one is the real Irma who has owned properties and the other is Jo, the fake Irma, who is the former's high school friend who stole the former's identity by having plastic surgery after her former lover beat her and destroyed her face.

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Produced and released by Viva Films, the film stars Dina Bonnevie, Timmy Cruz, Tonton Gutierrez, and Julio Diaz, with the film's theme song "Kung Kasalanan Man" performed by Rey Valera, cinematography by Joe Batac Jr. and its musical score was composed by Jaime Fabregas. The film was theatrically released on 21 June 1989, [2] to a critical and box office success. [3]

Plot

Irma lives in a house with her husband Raullo Ferrer and daughter Yvette. However, after experiencing a near-death experience with the unidentified men who fired gunshots at the front of their house, she decides that she and Yvette will go to the United States. While Irma and her daughter go to America and Raullo is on a business trip in Australia, she assigns Jo, her longtime friend since high school, as a house sitter. While doing so, Jo began stealing things owned by Irma inside the house, including jewelry, fancy clothes, and her safebox. One night, when Jo reunites with her former lover Alvaro, she tries to seduce him but she ends up being severely mauled by Alvaro. Because of this, she vows to take revenge against him and his current lover.

With the jewelry and safebox, which contained her photos and bank accounts, that Jo stole, she succeeded in stealing Irma's identity through plastic surgery. When Jo, now the fake Irma, returns to the mansion, many people including Aling Miding thought that their employer would stay for a long time in America. By the time she received a call from the true Irma, Jo changed the house's telephone number (to which Irma's aunt, Tiya Bining, complained), transferred Irma's bank accounts from a bank she is a loyal client of to a new one, and replaced Aling Miding and her fellow house helpers with different people. One night, the fake Irma succeeds in killing Alvaro at the hotel and his girlfriend at their house. The following day, Raullo returned home from his business trip, only to be refused to let him in by the new house helpers and met his demise when unknown assailants shot him to death. At the hospital, it was revealed that Alvaro survived and he found the identity of a woman who stabbed him in a newspaper and unknown to him, she is Jo.

On the day of Raullo's funeral, Dan Ramirez, Irma's former lover, shows up and begins a new relationship with the fake Irma. When the true Irma and her daughter Yvette returned to the Philippines, Tiya Bining and Aling Miding realized that they were in America all along and informed Irma about a string of events that occurred during their absence including Raullo's violent death. When Tiya Bining shows Irma and Yvette their house, Irma sadly realizes that their house was sold to a different person. At her lawyer's office, Irma was informed by Atty. Rafael Castro about her forthcoming wedding which confuses her. At the church, the true Irma found out that Jo stole her identity and married Dan.

Because of the return of the true Irma, the fake Irma anonymously calls Alvaro, who has visible facial scars and gives him the address of the true Irma, who temporarily stays at her aunt's house. One morning, the two Irmas face each other, to which the true Irma angrily calls Jo an "impostor". Later, Irma returns home, only to be kidnapped by Alvaro, who takes her to a dilapidated house. When Irma regained consciousness, Alvaro attempts to rape her violently as an act of revenge but the latter escaped successfully. On the following day, Irma visits Dan at the office, only for Dan to realize that she is the true Irma while the Irma whom he marries is Jo.

With Dan realizing that he is married to the fake Irma, he makes a plan to leave the country with the true Irma and Yvette. While the three stay at the hotel, the fake Irma shows up. On the same night, Alvaro notices the van, which Tiya Bining is inside, and starts following them to the hotel. While intruding on their hotel room, the fake Irma shoots the true Irma and exits. Unfortunately for the fake Irma, Alvaro starts shooting at her.

The gunfight continues when the fake Irma tries to escape at the emergency stairwell and Alvaro follows her, followed by Dan. When she accidentally slipped on the stairs, Alvaro shot the fake Irma to death and left the scene after he finished the job.

Fortunately, the true Irma survived the attempted fatal shooting by Jo, much to Dan's relief. On the next day, Irma, Dan, and Yvette leave the hotel and give farewell to Tiya Bining before they go to Paris. Alvaro, who is in his car, notices Irma in a taxi, whom he sees is alive, and wants to finish her. However, it never materialized as he realized that they had gone to the airport and moved on. The film ends with the plane bound for France taking off.

Cast

Dina Bonnevie Interview with Korina.jpg
Dina Bonnevie plays two characters in the film: a true Irma and a fake Irma.

Other cast includes Suzanne Gonzales as Alvaro's girlfriend, Ernie Zarate as the plastic surgeon, Koko Trinidad as Atty. Rafael P. Castro, Irma's lawyer, and Merla Verdeflor as Mrs. Domingo.

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