WARRIORS OF THE RAINBOW SEEDIQ BALE : Official Poster

DIRECTED BY:  Wei Te-Sheng

STARRING:  Lin Ching-Tai, Umin Boya, Ando Masanobu, Kawahara Sabu, Vivian Su, Da Ching

OFFICIAL SELECTION: TAIWAN’S OFFICIAL SELECTION FOR THE 2012 ACADEMY AWARDS, VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 2011

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.  But the Japanese soon sent in their army to crush the rebellion, using aircraft and poison gas.

WARRIORS OF THE RAINBOW:  SEEDIQ BALE is presented in its International version, with English subtitles.

RUN TIME:  150 minutes

RATING:  Not rated; contains frequent strong, graphic violence. For 15 and up.

OFFICIAL URL: www.warrriorsoftherainbow.wellgomovies.com