Live Show (film)

Live Show, originally titled Toro, is a Philippine erotic drama film directed and written by Jose Javier Reyes.

After the first ban was imposed, a "second (expanded) review committee" was created and subsequently overruled the decision and voted to give the producer, Regal Films, the permit to exhibit.

[4] The film, however, was not shown in public theaters in the Philippines until the second week of March 2001 after its original name, Toro, which means pay-per-view sex in local slang, was changed.

[4] The Catholic Church severely criticized the Philippine government for allowing the screening of the film, which shows upper frontal nudity.

[8] The ban also provoked fierce protests from the film industry, which accused Macapagal-Arroyo of buckling under pressure from Manila Archbishop Cardinal Jaime Sin, the top prelate at the time.