Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (Chinese: 賽德克•巴萊; pinyin: Sàidékè Balái; Seediq: Seediq Bale; literally Real Seediq or Real Men) is a 2011 Taiwanese historical drama epic film directed by Wei Te-Sheng and produced by John Woo, based on the 1930 Wushe Incident in central Taiwan.
The full version of the film shown in Taiwan is divided into two parts — Part 1 is called "太陽旗" (The Sun Flag), and Part 2 is called "彩虹橋" (The Rainbow Bridge), running a total of four and half hours.
The film was shown in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival and was selected as a contender for nomination for the 84th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film in 2011. It was one of nine films shortlisted to advance to the next round of voting for nomination.
However, the original two parts of the film was combined into the
single international cut version; its run time was two-and-half hours.
The film is the most expensive production in Taiwanese cinema history. The film has also been compared to the 1995 film Braveheart by Mel Gibson and The Last of the Mohicans by the media in Taiwan.
Synopsis
The film Seediq Bale depicts the Wushe Incident, which occurred near Qilai Mountain of Taiwan under Japanese rule. Mona Rudao, a chief of Mahebu village of Seediq people, led warriors fighting against the Japanese.
Part One
The film begins with a hunt by a mountain river in Taiwan. Two Bunun men are hunting a boar, but they are attacked by a group led by young Mona Rudao of Seediq people. Mona Rudao invades the territory, kills one of them and takes away the boar.
In 1895, China cedes Taiwan to Japan via the Treaty of Shimonoseki. The Japanese invasion of Taiwan
ends with Japan defeating Han Chinese resistance. Japanese military
officials see the natives as an obstacle to the resources of Taiwan.
Later a team of Japanese soldiers are attacked by natives. The attack
leads to a battle between Japanese and natives including Mona Rudao on a
cliff trail. On his way to trade with Han Chinese off the mountain,
Mona Rudao also feuds with Temu Walis, a Seediq young man from Toda
group. The Japanese ban people from trading with Mona Rudao, and
collaborate with a group of Bunun to get Mona Rudao's men drunk and
ambush them when they are asleep. After some battles (the 1902 人止關 and 1903 姊妹原),
Rudao Luhe, Mona Rudao's father, is injured. Their village, Mahebu, and
neighboring villages are under the control of the Japanese.
Twenty years pass. Mahebu and other villages are forced to abolish
the custom of keeping the heads they have hunted. Men are subject to
low-wage logging
and kept from holding guns and from traditional animal and human
hunting. Women work in houses of the Japanese and give up the
traditional weaving work. Children including the boy Pawan Nawi attend
school in Wushe village. Men buy alcohol and medicine from a grocery
owned by a Han man and the men hold grudge as they are in debt. Above
all, they are forbidden to tattoo their faces. The tattoo is believed to
be the requirement for Seediq people to "go to the other side across
the Rainbow Bridge" after death. There are also young people such as
Dakis Nomin, Dakis Nawi, Obing Nawi and Obing Tadao, who adopt Japanese
names, education and life style and attempt to work and live among
Japanese. The Japanese, except a few, are not aware of the tension.
In late autumn of 1930, the village of Mona Rudao holds a wedding for
a young couple. Mona Rudao goes hunting for the wedding and quarrels
for hunting ground with Temu Walis, who is hunting with Japanese
policeman Kojima Genji and his son. At the wedding, Yoshimura, a newly
appointed and nervous Japanese policeman, inspects the village. Mona
Rudao's first son, Tado Mona, offers to share his homebrewed millet wine
with Yoshimura, but Yoshimura considers the beer unsanitary as it is
fermented with saliva. Tado Mona's hands are also covered in blood from
the animal he has just slaughtered. A fight with Tado Mona and his
brother Baso Mona ensues. The fight is stopped, but Yoshimura fears for
his life and threatens to punish the whole village. Young men, including
Piho Sapo from Hogo village, see the punishment unacceptable and urge
Mona Rudao to start war with the Japanese. Mona Rudao tells them that it
is impossible to win. But Mona Rudao also sees the war as necessary and
decides to fight.
In a few days Mona Rudao calls on villages with pacts to join force.
They schedule to attack the Japanese on October 27, when Japanese will
attend a sports game (in memory of Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa)
and gather on the schoolyard of the Wushe Village. The women, including
Mona Rudao's first daughter, Mahung Mona, know the men are planning for
a war and are sad.
Dakis Nomin, a young man who adopted the Japanese name Hanaoka Ichiro
and became a police officer, notices that Mona Rudao is preparing for
war. He comes to a waterfall and tries to persuade Mona Rudao not to
start the war, instead Mona Rudao persuades him to collaborate. After
Dakis Nomin leaves, Mona Rudao sings with the ghost of Rudao Luhe and
determines to start the war. In the night before, Mahung Mona tries to
seduce her husband to break rule so he cannot go to war the next day.
The natives attack the police outposts. Mona Rudao then rallies young
men from village to village, and at last chief Tadao Nogan of Hogo
village agrees to join Mona Rudao.
On October 27 the attack takes place as scheduled. All Japanese men,
women and children are killed. Pawan Nawi and other boys kill their
Japanese teacher and his family. Obing Nawi, a woman who wears Japanese
clothes, is spared only because her husband Dakis Nomin covers her with a
native cloth. Obing Tadao, who is daughter of chief Tadao Nogan and who
also wears Japanese clothes, survives by hiding in a storage room. Han
people such as the grocer are spared. Native people attack a police
station and take the guns. One Japanese police officer escapes and tells
the outside world about the attack. The film ends with Mona Rudao
sitting in the schoolyard which is full of bodies.
Part Two
The second film begins with Dakis Nomin and Dakis Nawi writing their
last words on the wall, telling their ambivalence. When the news of war
breaks open, policeman Kojima Genji is threatened, but he convinced Temu
Walis and his men to fight with Japan. The colonial government sees the
uprising as a major crisis, and sends Major General Kamada Yahiko
leading 3,000 police and soldiers to fight the 300 men on Mona Rudao's
side. Pawan Nawi and other boys earn their face tattoos. In a woods some
people begin to commit suicide. Dakis Nomin, his wife Obing Nawi and
young man Dakis Nawi die there.
General Kamada is furious with the stalemate and orders to use the illegal poison gas
bomb. On the other hand, Kojima Genji sets bounty on men, women and
children in Mona Rudao's village, and orders Temu Walis and his men to
fight Mona Rudao.
The battle turns against Mona Rudao's side. Many are lost to poison
gas and Temu Walis' men. Mona Rudao's people lose the village to the
Japanese and other natives and retreat to caves. Pawan Nawi and the boys
feel desperate and ask to fight side by side with Mona Rudao. Mona
Rudao asks them to recite their creation story in which the first man and first woman are formed from a tree that is half stone half wood.
In the retreat the women kill the children then hang themselves on
trees to conserve food for the warriors. Piho Sapo also helped his
injured relative, Piho Walis, to hang himself. Temu Walis is shaken when
he sees the hanged women, and claims that he fights for his own sake
not for Kojima.
Mona Rudao and his men launched a desperate attack on the Japanese
force occupying the Mahebu village. Baso Mona is injured and asks his
brother to kill him. Pawan Nawi and the boys die fighting. Meanwhile, in
a river, Temu Walis and his men are ambushed by Piho Sapo and other
men. In his illusion, Temu Walis thinks he is fighting young Mona Rudao
before he dies.
When Mona Rudao sees the fight is near the end, he gives leadership
to Tado Mona, and returns to his wife and children (the movie implies
two versions of the story, one is that Mona Rudao shot his wife, the
other is that the wife hanged herself).
Some people of the village surrender and survive. Natives present and
identify heads of the dead to Japanese for rewards, and it is shown that
in the battle they feud with each other even further. Mahung Mona is
resuscitated by the Japanese, and is sent to offer Tado Mona's men wine
and a chance to surrender. The men take the wine, and sing and dance
with the women, but refuse to surrender. Tado Mona tells Mahung Mona to
give birth to and raise offspring, and leads men to hang themselves in
woods. Piho Sapo is captured and tortured to death. The war ends, and
even Kamada is impressed by his enemy's spirit. The surviving people of
the villages that rebel are removed from their homes, and are later
attacked by Kojima. Mona Rudao is missing, and a native hunter is led by
a bird to find his body. The hunter then sees Mona Rudao and his people
following the Seediq legend to cross the rainbow bridge. The film ends
with a scene of several natives telling their creation story.
Source:1. wikipedia
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