One Day, Isang Araw (lit. 'One Day, One Day') is a 1988 Filipino action comedy film directed by Pablo Santiago and written by Tony Pasena and Fred Navarro from a story by Jose Javier Reyes. Starring Fernando Poe Jr., Matet de Leon, and Dawn Zulueta in her first lead role, the story follows a neighborhood hero who fights for the vulnerable street children.
Produced by Regal Films, the film was released theatrically on August 18, 1988, and was a box-office success.
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Cast
Fernando Poe Jr.
Matet de Leon as Precious/Purunggay
Dawn Zulueta
Dencio Padilla
Paquito Diaz as Baldo
Bayani Casimiro as Don Paquito, Purunggay's grandfather
Odette Khan as Sophia
Johnny Wilson as Brando
Balot as a jeepney driver
Malu de Guzman as Auntie
Flora Gasser as yaya of Purunggay
Larry Silva
Bamba as a yagit
Sunshine as a yagit
RR Herrera as a yagit
Atong as a yagit
Rudy Meyer as Capt. Rodriguez
Jose Romulo as Police
Rene Hawkins
Rachel Ann Wolfe as Cynthia
Lawrence Pineda as Cynthia's Boyfriend
Production
The film was made in part as one of the eight films presented for the 15th anniversary of Regal Films in 1988.
Casting
On March 6, 1988, Dawn Zulueta's first day as a co-host of GMA Supershow, she was informed to have been cast, in her first major film role, as the love interest of Fernando Poe Jr. in One Day, Isang Araw.
Reception
Critical response
Lav Diaz of the Manila Standard gave One Day, Isang Araw a positive review, pointing out that even though the film has many shortcomings in terms of believability and continuity, they are easily forgivable because of the film's depiction of the "enormous sickness" in Philippine society, that of orphaned street children who have been forgotten and neglected by others.