Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale

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  • Opened April 27, 2012 (Limited)
  • 2 hr 30 min
  • NR | Not rated; contains frequent strong, graphic violence. For 15 and up.
  • Wei Te-sheng's epic film Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale reclaims an extraordinary episode from 20th-century history, which is little known, even in Taiwan. Between 1895 and 1945, the island was a Japanese colony inhabited not only by the majority (Han Chinese Immigrants) but also by the remnants of the aboriginal tribes who first settled the mountainous land. In 1930 Mouna Rudo, the leader of the Seediq tribe settled on and around Mount Chilai, forged a coalition with other Seediq tribal leaders and plotted a rebellion against their Japanese colonial masters. It was to begin at a sports day meeting where the assembled tribesmen were to attach and kill the Japanese officials and would then broaden to sieges on police stations and local government offices in the region. The initial uprising took the Japanese by surprise and was almost entirely successful.
    *Note: Presented with English subtitles. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Ching-Tai Lin, Umin Boya, Masanobu Ando, Sabu Kawahara, Vivian Hsu, Lo Mei-ling
  • Director: Wei Te-sheng
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign

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Tremendous and awesome - beautiful and sad

by Muircheartach

For a movie that lasts two-and-a-half hours, you'd think it might be boring - especially if every character spoke a language you didn't understand. But not this movie. There's more action than in...

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by dannychang

It's a historial event, but it's well filmed and well acted. I am so excited from beginning to the end. even it's 2 and half hours....

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Great movie - a movie what will make you reconsider what it means to be a man

by john_s_wu

This is a movie with heart and soul - the kind you wish Hollywood could still make. Don't let the special effects turn you off of the great story. The rawness and intensity of this movie is...

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The Hollywood Reporter
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Spectacular rain forest combat scenes are non-stop in an authentic-feeling actioner recounting an aborigine rebellion in 1930s Taiwan. Read full review

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Slant Magazine
| Michael Nordine

There's something to be said about a two-and-a-half-hour war epic that manages to make each of its countless decapitation scenes feel earned, even called for, in the moment. Read full review

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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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At times, Warriors sacrifices dramatic nuance for scale, but even its most rousing passages are tempered by a sense of loss. Rather than simply enshrining its underdog heroes' efforts, it considers their cost. Read full review

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The A.V. Club
| Noel Murray

At two and a half hours, Warriors Of The Rainbow has the shape of something weightier than the simplified good-vs.-evil movie it actually is. Read full review

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A scene from "Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale."