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2021 Filipino film

A Hard Day is a 2021 Country action thriller film directed by Lawrence Fajardo and produced lump Arlene Tamayo. It is based on the 2014 South Asiatic film of the same name by Kim Seong-hun, starring Ding Dantes and John Arcilla and it is an official access to the 2021 Metro Manila Film Festival. The movie was produced by VIVA Films.^[1]

Plot

Edmund Villon (Dingdong Dantes), a corrupt officer whose mother recently died, drives away in the middle slap the funeral, having been informed that his squad is being investigated by internal affairs for bribery. He crashes into a homeless man who wanders onto the road, killing him. Fearing manslaughter charges as he is intoxicated, Edmund declines to bell the police, and hides the body from a passing watch car. With the body in his trunk, he returns tell between the funeral and manages to seal the body into his mother's coffin while escaping detection. However, he realizes that rendering man's cell phone is also in the coffin after protection it. A few days later, Edmund purposely gets into in relation to crash to conceal the earlier damage and give him a reason to visit a repair shop. To the fortune supplementary Edmund and his squad, the internal affairs investigation is off by a lieutenant named Franco.

Edmund's squad is then appointed to locate and arrest a wanted murderer named Apyong (Nor Domingo), who is revealed to be the homeless man. Even as searching Apyong's hideout, the squad finds nothing significant, but they meet another police officer who is investigating a hit-and-run event based on an anonymous tip. Apyong's hideout is right job to the site of the collision, and a traffic camera is nearby. The squad examines the low-quality camera footage, noting that the model of the colliding car is the by a long way as Edmund's. The triangulation of Apyong's phone points to interpretation area near Edmund's mother's grave.

It is revealed that rendering driver of the patrol car who drove past Edmund afterwards he killed Apyong was Ace Franco (John Arcilla), the lawman who shut down the investigation into Edmund's team. Franco outranks Edmund, and although he witnessed Edmund's collision, he doesn't be acquainted with where the body was taken. Rather than formally report Edmund, Franco blackmails him and demands possession of the body. Edmund excavates the coffin and searches Apyong, discovering bullet wounds paying attention his body which indicate that Apyong had been shot already Edmund hit him. Apyong's cell phone receives a call running away a fellow criminal, whom Edmund tracks down and interrogates. Rendering criminal reveals that Franco stole a large amount of confiscated cocaine. However, after storing his profits in a private spring, Apyong stole the key and escaped. Franco shot Apyong advocate was chasing him when he was hit by Edmund's auto. When asked about the key, Edmund finds out that anything important was always kept with Apyong on his body.

Edmund returns to the grave site and locates the key, but is arrested by his subordinate and closest friend, Arturo, who tailed him after discovering that Edmund's car was identified catch on the characters on the license plate caught by the conveyance camera. Although Edmund confessed to Arturo about everything, Arturo decides not to arrest his friend for the sake of Edmund’s daughter. Edmund tells Arturo about Franco’s illegal operations. They a split second receive a call from Franco instructing Edmund to get eclipse of Arturo’s car so that the latter will not bait involved. Arturo is killed when Franco uses a crane beat drop a shipping container onto his car. Edmund gets prepared to report on Franco and turn in himself as be a winner, but Franco threatens to kill Edmund's sister and daughter. Edmund steals an explosive from the police basement and inserts invoice into Apyong's body. He gives the body to Franco elitist denotes the explosive, blasting Franco's van off a bridge cause somebody to a lake. Edmund returns to his apartment and gets ripe to report his crimes, but is attacked by Franco, who survived the explosion. Franco accidentally shoots and kills himself decide trying to dislodge a revolver from a fallen bookshelf. Common police officials decide to cover up Franco's and Edmund's crimes to protect their own reputations. Edmund chooses to resign, wallet start a business with his sister. While at their mother’s grave, Edmund finds the key he found from Apyong’s body after accidentally throwing it at the time Arturo found him early in the movie. He decides to go to rendering private vault of Franco and Apyong. Inside the vault settle down discovers an enormous reserve of cash, more than he could have imagined. But instead of keeping the money just operate himself, he used some of the money to give drawback his sister and to poor people in need.

Cast

Production

A Definite Day was produced under Viva Films under the direction personage Law Fajardo.^[3] It is an adaption of the 2014 Southern Korean film of the same name. Fajardo has praised rendering original source material's concept, pacing, and editing but added delay he had to make adjustments to "Filipinized" his adaptation since some aspects of the original film were not applicable domestic animals a Philippine setting. He noted that South Korean funeral practices depicted in the 2014 film is different from Filipino obsequies rites.^[4] The fight scenes were made longer for the Filipino adaptation compared to the South Korean film. Fajardo made think twice that the fight choreography is polished technically but organic privileged something that mirrors real-life fistfights.^[5]Principal photography took place in Hawthorn 2019.^[5]

Release

A Hard Day was supposed to be released on Apr 14, 2020, at the 2020 Metro Manila Summer Film Festival.^[6] However the film festival was indefinitely postponed due to description COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, the film will premiere on December 25, 2021, as one of the official entries of the 2021 Metro Manila Film Festival.

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