Warriors of the Rainbow Seediq Bale - Part 1
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.
1 March 1978, Yuli, Hualien, Taiwan
9 December 1979, Hsinchu, Taiwan
9 February 1963, Kyoto, Japan
1 April 1939, Taiwan, Japan
16 July 1979, Jianshi, Hsinchu, Taiwan
17 March 1955, Japan
17 August 1981, Tokyo, Japan
2 November 1964, Taiwan
17 October 1960, Yilan, Taiwan
19 May 1975, Kanagawa, Japan
April 27, 2012
Given China's ongoing interest in the island and its unknowable future, this historical backstory behind current events is welcome indeed.April 26, 2012
You can see why Woo, the noted Hong Kong action director, would want to produce it: It fits right in with his "heroic bloodshed" cinematic legacy.April 26, 2012
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.April 26, 2012
Taiwanese natives battle occupying Japanese forces in a doomed uprising. Exciting if exhausting account of a real-life incident.September 05, 2012
Bruising, brutal tale of rebellion in early 20th Century Taiwan suffers from overkill.April 27, 2012
At times, Warriors sacrifices dramatic nuance for scale, but even its most rousing passages are tempered by a sense of loss.April 26, 2012
As the war drags on, "Warriors of the Rainbow" outstays its welcome. I've never seen more severed heads in a film and cared less.August 07, 2012
The Taiwanese epic doesn't shy away from anything even though the message is pretty hopeless. But all of the film's depth seems to have been stripped away.April 26, 2012
At 2 1/2 hours, "Warriors" is a bruising, relentless experience, one more tiring than inspiring.April 23, 2012
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.April 26, 2012
An ambitious, blood-soaked retelling of an uprising by Taiwanese natives against Japanese occupiers.