Did you know that “Sisa,” a character in Jose Rizal’s novel “Noli Me Tangere,” was named after an actual person? “Going home?” Amelia Garcia Yulo asked, taking her cue from other ...

Sisa, meanwhile, is among the most recognizable characters of "Noli Me Tangere." She is the mother of Crispin and Basilio who went crazy after suffering physical abuse from her husband.

12, 1913) celebration ends September this year, directed three Jose Rizal films. Sisa (1951), Noli Me Tangere (1961), with Oscar Keese and Edita Vital, El Filibusterismo (1962). As part of De ...

While the movie is titled “Sisa,” she clarified that it is not about the Sisa in Jose Rizal’s “Noli Me Tangere,” and instead is an original story by Jun. “Sisa was—they see her as a ...