Mumbaki (1996)

Joseph is a young doctor who returned to his hometown in the Mountain Province to bury his father, an Ifugao chieftain, who was killed during a tribal dispute. While there, he discovers his rich heritage and acquires pride in his being an Ifugao. Though the lure of a career in America remains strong, he is unable to resist the urge to help his village, which has resisted modern medicine and is now in the midst of a pneumonia epidemic and a civil war.

Released Aug. 14, 1996 130 min None+

Genres: Action, Drama

Keywords: tmdb.indigenous-community, imdb.four-word-title, imdb.ifugao, imdb.fixed-marriage, imdb.shaman, imdb.rice-terraces, imdb.revenge + 11 more, imdb.mountain, imdb.medicine-man, imdb.land-dispute, imdb.indigent, imdb.indigenous, imdb.gunshot-wound, imdb.funeral, imdb.forest, imdb.doctor, imdb.tribal-war, imdb.filipino-drama