Warriors of the Rainbow- Seediq Bale{Full Version}DVDrip{Big_A_Little_A}

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Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
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Movie Information


Release year...........: 2010
Genre..................: Drama/Thriller
IMDb rating............: 7.2/10
IMDB Link..............: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2007993/
Language...............: Aboriginal(Seediq)/Japanese/Taiwanese Hokkien/Mandarin Chinese
Subtitles..............: English soft coded and .srt

Duration...............: 4h 34mn
Source.................: DVD R2
Format.................: MPEG-4
Format.................: Base Media
File size..............: 1.77 GB
Writing application....: HandBrake 0.9.6
Bit rate...............: 800 Kbps
Width..................: 720 pixels
Height.................: 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio...: 16:9
Frame rate mode........: Variable
Frame rate ............: 23.976 fps




Historical Background

The 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki ceded the island of Taiwan (aka Formosa) to Japan. There was immediate tension between the islanders and their new colonial masters, sparking many small rebellions, but the brutal suppression of the Taiwanese Revolt in 1916 brought an uneasy peace.

At that time, the aboriginal tribes of Taiwan – deemed primitive savages by the Japanese – were deprived of their lands and their weapons, along with their traditions of head-hunting and face tattooing. The tattooing was an integral part of tribal cultures: in the Seediq tribes, when a young man was given his face-tattoo it signified that he had passed from boyhood to manhood and become a hero of the tribe – a Seediq Bale. Despite all of Japans constraints on their culture, the aboriginal tribes submitted to Japanese rule for a time. In Wushe, a tribal township on Mount Chilai, the Japanese even set up a school, a post office, a vocational training center, and a branch of the Nenggao Police Ministry.

Mouna Rudo was the leader of the Seediq tribe in Wushe. He had sparked small rebellions against the Japanese in 1920 and 1925, but by 1930 seemed resigned to accepting Japan's rule. Thinking that they had tamed the savages, the Japanese reduced the number of policemen stationed in Wushe.

During the phoney peace of 1930, however, Pihu Sapu and other tribesmen from Hogo village persuaded Mouna Rudo to launch an ambitious new rebellion. They secretly lobbied other Seediq villages in the region and formed an underground alliance of six villages: Truwan, Mahebo, Bualon and Suku joined Wushe and Hogo in planning a surprise attack on the Japanese. The alliance mustered more than three hundred able-bodied fighting men in total.

The plan was to strike on October 27th, the day of a school sports meeting in Wushe, when the Commissioner for Nenggao and other high-ranking Japanese officials would be in attendance. The tribal army split into several teams to launch surprise attacks on all the region's police stations; they then converged to surround Wushe and massacre every Japanese in sight. The action was swiftly accomplished: 136 Japanese men and women were killed. There were 428 Chinese-Taiwanese living in Wushe at the time, and only two of them were killed, both by accident. It was a carefully planned and executed rebellion, nothing like a traditional tribal head-hunting attack.

In the days that followed, the Seediq rebels set fire to their own homes and villages. The Japanese were confounded and overwhelmed. When the police and army squads sent to crush the rebellion failed, the Japanese authorities tried to bribe the Seediqs to turn against the rebels. But the rebellion continued for fifty days.

It is said that more than one hundred Seediq women hanged themselves during the rebellion in order to free their husbands from the burden of taking care of them. Defeated in ground combat, the Japanese resorted to dropping poison gas on the rebels from aircraft – in breach of international conventions. The gas bombs caused some rebels to surrender and others to commit suicide. Mouna Rudo saw that the rebellion could go no further and instructed the members of his family to kill themselves. He personally shot his wife and two grandsons and then hid up the mountain, hoping that the Japanese would never find him. His eldest son Tado Mouna fought to the last bullet and then hanged himself, along with other rebels. The Wushe Incident – as the Japanese dubbed it – finally ended when one of the ringleaders, Pihu Sapu, was captured. It was a full fifty days after the sports day massacre.

The Japanese soon exacted their revenge. They first mounted The Second Wushe Incident: the execution of more than 200 captured rebels, designed to deter any further uprisings. They then moved all surviving Seediq tribes people to an offshore island (they named it Kawanaka-hara-jima) connected to the mainland only by a flimsy suspension bridge. The Seediqs were finally isolated and contained.





Distributed : The ARS Film Production/Fortissimo Films
Country: Taiwan
Release Date: 09/09/2011
Budget NT$ 700 - 750 million/(US$ 23 - 25 million)
Box office Taiwan: NT$ 900 million(US$ 30 million)

Warriors of the Rainbow: 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 Wushe Incident in central Taiwan in 1930. The film is divided into two parts - the full versions in Taiwan, the part 1 is called The Flag of Sun, and the part 2 is called The Bridge of Rainbow, both running at a total of up to 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 and was one of nine films shortlisted to advance to the next round of voting for
nomination. But the original two parts are combined into the single cut version; its running time is two and half hours. The film has been compared to the 1995 film Braveheart by Mel Gibson and The Last of the Mohicans by the media in Taiwan.

The film Seediq Bale depicts the Wushe Incident, which occurred near Cilai Mountain of Taiwan under Japanese rule. Mona Rudao, a chief of Mahebu village of Seediq people, led warriors fighting against the Japanese.


Part I

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, Treaty of Shimonoseki is signed between China and Japan, and Taiwan is ceded to Japan. Japanese invasion of Taiwan ends with Japan defeating Han Chinese resistance. Japanese military officials see the natives as obstacle to the resources of Taiwan, and Mona Rudao and his father, Rudao Luhe, see Japanese as invaders. Mona Rudao and Rudao Luhe attack Japanese soldiers and feud with Temu Walis, a Seediq young man from Toda group. The Japanese collaborate with a group of Bunun to get Mona Rudaos men drunk and ambush them when they are asleep. After battles, eventually Mona Rudaos village Mahebu is under the control of the Japanese.

Since then, some 30 years have passed. Mona Rudaos village is forced to bury the heads of the killed enemies they have collected. Men are subject to low-wage harsh labor and kept from traditional animal and human hunting; whereas women work in houses of the Japanese and give up the traditional weaving work. 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 through a bridge of rainbow after death. There are also young people who adopt Japanese names, education and life style and attempt to work and live among Japanese.

In late autumn of 1930, the tribe 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. On the wedding, Yohsimura, a newly appointed and nervous Japanese policeman, inspects the village. Mona Rudao's first son, Tado Mona, offers to share his homebrewed beer with Yoshimura, but Yoshimura considers the beer dirty and starts a fight with Tado Mona and his brother Baso Mona. The fight is stopped, but Yoshimura fears for his life and threatens to punish the whole village. Young men 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 necessary and decides to fight.

In a few days Mona Rudao collaborates the neighboring villages. They schedule to attack the Japanese on October 27, when Japanese will attend a game (in memory of Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa) and gather on the schoolyard of the Wushe Village. The women, including Mona Rudaos first daughter, Mahung Mona, know the men are planning for a war and are sad. Dakis Nomin, a young man who adopted Japanese name Hanaoka and became a police, notices that Mona Rudao is preparing for war. He comes to a fall 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. On October 27 the attack takes place as scheduled. Men, women and children are killed. Takayama Hatsuko, a woman who adopts Japanese name and wears Japanese cloths, survives by hiding in a storage. Seediq people attack police station and take the guns. One Japanese police escapes and tells the outside about the attack. The film ends with Mona Rudao sitting on the schoolyard full of bodies.


Crew

Director..............: Wei Te-Sheng
Script................: Wei Te-Sheng
Action Director.......: Yang Kil-Yong
Producer..............: John Woo
Producer..............: Terrance Cheung Ga-Jan
Producer..............: Jimmy Huang Chih-Ming
Cinematographer.......: Chin Ding-Chang
Art Director..........: Taneda Yohei
Editor................: Cheung Ka-Fai
Editor................: Chen Bo-Wen
Composer..............: Ricky Ho Kwok-Kit

Cast

Vivian Hsu Jo-Hsuan...: Hatsuko Takayama
Landy Wen Lan.........: Mahung Mona
Ma Chih-Hsiang........: Temu Walis
Law Meh-Ling..........: Hanako Kawano
Ma Ju-Lung............: Owner of trade center
Ando Masanobu.........: Genji Kojima
Cheng Chih-Wei........: Wu Chin-Duen
Tanaka Chie...........: Matsuno Kojima
Wu Peng-Fong..........: Volunteer armies leader
Da Ching..............: Mouna Rudo, young
Lin Ching-Tai.........: Mouna Rudo, middle-age
Hayashida Michio......: Hua-Lien Police Chief





Part II

The second film follows the attack on school. The colonial government sees the uprising as a major crisis, and sends Major General Kamada Yahiko leading 3000 police and soldiers to fight the 300 men of Mona Rudao. The Japanese use machine guns, airplanes and the illegal poison gas, but cannot win the battles in the mountains. Mona Rudaos people retreat to caves, and the women commit suicide to save foods. Caught in ambivalence, Dakis Nomin and his relatives commit suicide. Kojima Genji, a policeman who once was friendly toward natives, is enraged when his family is killed in the school attack. He sets bounty on men, women and children in Mona Rudaos village, and orders Temu Walis and his men to fight Mona Rudao. Temu Walis is ambivalent, and claims that he fights for his own sake not for Kojima. Temu Walis and his men kill many, and are ambushed and killed in a river.

Mona Rudao and his men continues to fight. When Mona Rudao sees the fight is near the end, he gives leadership to his son, and returns to the cave, kills his family and disappears. Some people of the village surrender and survive. The war ends, and even Kamada is impressed by his enemys spirit. Mona Rudao is missing and his bones are found four years later. The film ends with a scene of Mona Rudao and his people following the Seediq legend to cross the bridge of rainbow.


Crew

Director..............: Wei Te-Sheng
Script................: Wei Te-Sheng
Producer..............: John Woo
Producer..............: Terrance Cheung Ga-Jan
Producer..............: Jimmy Huang Chih-Ming
Cinematographer.......: Chin Ding-Chang
Special Effects.......: Foo Sing-Choong
Sound Recordist.......: Do Duk-Ji
Art Director..........: Taneda Yohei
Composer..............: Ricky Ho Kwok-Kit

Cast

Lin Ching-Tai.........: Mouna Rudo
Ma Chih-Hsiang........: Temu Walis
Vivian Hsu Jo-Hsuan...: Hatsuko Takayama
Ando Masanobu.........: Genji Kojima
Law Meh-Ling..........: Hanako Kawano
Landy Wen Lan.........: Mahung Mouna
Kawahara Sabu.........: General Yahiko Kamada
Da Ching..............: Mouna Rudo, young
Pawan Nawi............: Rudo Luhe
Yakau Kuhon...........: Tado Mouna
Lee Shih-Chia.........: Baso Mouna
Lin Yuan-Jie..........: Pawan Nawi
Chang Chih-Wei........: Pihu Sapu
Bokeh Kosang..........: Hanaoka Ichiro/Dakis Nawi
Soda Voyu.............: Hanaoka Jiro
Kimura Yuichi.........: Satsuka Ayu
Ma Ju-Lung............: Owner of trade center
Tanaka Chie...........: Kojima's wife
Cheng Chih-Wei........: Wu Chin-duen








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