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[Photo] Mmm, good chicken rice place.

Mmm, good chicken rice place. (Check out more photos from my Instagram account .)

[Photo] Yet another Beijing photo from last December

Yet another Beijing photo from last December (Check out more photos from my Instagram account .)

[Photo] Superheroes everywhere...

Superheroes everywhere... (Check out more photos from my Instagram account .)

[Photo] Walking past Meiji Shrine on New Year's Eve

Walking past Meiji Shrine on New Year's Eve (Check out more photos from my Instagram account .)

[Photo] Another Beijing photo from last December

Another Beijing photo from last December (Check out more photos from my Instagram account .)

[Photo] Found some old Beijing photos taken last December

Found some old Beijing photos taken last December (Check out more photos from my Instagram account .)

Liliosa Hilao and the Martial Law (a scene from River of Exploding Durians)

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I first read about Liliosa Hilao a couple of years ago. I cannot really remember how did I actually stumble upon her story then. I was in Tokyo, I was binge-reading the colourful history of Philippines on Wikipedia, and like a labyrinth, it led me to unexpected places, namely the sad story of Liliosa Hilao . The atrocities that happened to her during Martial Law were painful to read, and after I was done, I remained haunted by it. A few years later, when I finally started making my film RIVER OF EXPLODING DURIANS, I decided to incorporate scenes of a high school class reenacting forgotten ASEAN history, because I was hoping to preserve these in cinema. The truth is, our education system, our history books, just like those in this region, are rather insular and limited, many things weren't allowed for discussion. How then, can we grow if we were kept constantly in a bubble? One of the scenes in RIVER OF EXPLODING DURIANS is a reenactment of Liliosa Hilao's story. I deci