Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011) Sàidékè balái (original title)

Director:

Te-Sheng Wei

Writer:

Te-Sheng Wei (screenplay)

Release Date:

13 September 2012 (New Zealand)

Genre:

Action | Drama | History

Plot:

An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and enslaving them.

Awards:

5 wins & 15 nominations

Cast

Ching-Tai Lin	...	Mona Rudao
Umin Boya	...	Temu Walis
Masanobu Andô	...	Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Chi-Wei Cheng	...	Jin - Dun Wu
Da-Ching	...	Mona Rudao - Young
Dean Fujioka	...	Miyakawa
Jun'ichi Haruta	...	Egawa Hiromichi, Police chief in Wushe area
Michio Hayashida	...	Hua-Lien Police Chief
Akira Hibino	...	General Oshima, Commander of occupying force
Vivian Hsu	...	Obing Tadao aka Hatsuko Takayama
Yi-Fan Hsu	...	Ichiro Hanaoka aka Dakis Nomin
Yoshitaka Ishizuka	...	Yasuichiro Fukabori
Kenji Kasai
Sabu Kawahara	...	Yahiko Kamada
Yûichi Kimura	...	Satsuka Aisuke
Junji Kumagai
Mei-Ling Lo	...	Obing Nawi aka Hanako Kawano
Ju-Lung Ma	...	Owner of the trade center
Minoru Matsumoto	...	Katsumi Yoshimura, Constable at timber factory
Hiroshi Noguchi	...	Admiral Kabayama Sukenori, Governor-general of Taiwan
Chie Tanaka	...	Matsuno Kojima, Wife of Officer Kojima
Shiang-Chu Tang	...	Li, Ching-Fang, Special envoy of China
Soda Voyu	...	Jiro Hanaoka aka Dakis Nawi
Landy Wen	...	Mahung Mona
Pong-Fong Wu	...	Taiwanese volunteer armies leader
Masaru Yoshitake

Directed by
Te-Sheng Wei

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Te-Sheng Wei		screenplay

Produced by
Terence Chang	....	producer
Leo Chen	....	line producer
Chih-ming Huang	....	producer (as Jimmy Huang)
John Woo	....	producer

Cinematography by
Ting-chang Chin		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Te-Sheng Wei

Casting by
Shiu-lan Lee
Fumiko Osaka

Art Direction by
Yohei Taneda

Set Decoration by
Yoshihito Akatsuka

Costume Design by
Row-Long Chiu
Amanda Deng
Xin-Yi Lin
Mei-Ling Tu

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Bo-Hao Hung	....	assistant director

Art Department
Yoshihito Akatsuka	....	art department producer

Sound Department
Shiang-Chu Tang	....	sound recordist
Du-Che Tu	....	sound

Visual Effects by
Sing-Choong Foo	....	visual effects supervisor
Jianghong Zhu	....	digital compositor

Stunts
Jae-won Shim	....	action choreography
Kil-Yong Yang	....	stunt choreography

Music Department
Guy Gray	....	music mixer
Ricky Ho	....	composer: theme music

Other crew
Hsiao Chu Tseng	....	production assistant
Adam Wilkinson	....	miscellaneous crew

Production Companies

• ARS Film Production
• Central Motion Pictures Corporation

Distributors

• Well Go (2012) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Uzumasa (2013) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Bounty Films (2012) (Australia) (DVD) (As "Warriors of the Rainbow")
• Cinemax (2012) (Hungary) (TV)
• Joyncontents Group (2013) (South Korea) (all media)
• Monster Pictures (2012) (Australia) (DVD)
• Senator Home Entertainment (2013) (Germany) (DVD)

Also Known As:

"Sàidékè balái" - Taiwan (original title)

Runtime:

Taiwan:276 min (2 parts) | 154 min (international version) | Japan:276 min (2 parts)

Country:

Taiwan

Language:

Aboriginal | Japanese | Hokkien

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

Singapore:M18 | USA:Not Rated | Hong Kong:III | Australia:MA15+ | Australia:MA | New Zealand:R18 | Taiwan:R-18 | Japan:R15+

Company:

ARS Film Production

Trivia:

Taiwan's official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 84th Academy Awards 2012.

Quotes:

Mona Rudao:[Asking Ichiro/Dakis Nomin] When you die, are you entering a Japanese shrine... , or the heavenly home of our ancestors? Are you Dakis or Hanaoka Ichiro?

A epic movie from Taiwan

Wei Te-Sheng had this movie planned way before his hit movie "Cape No.7" which was a big hit. And his efforts really shows in this movie, it's basically a high budget epic from taiwan that is most definitely worth watching. On the exterior it might seem like another historical movie about Japanese occupation and invasion and how they mistreated, enslaved and also raped the people on the land they invaded. While also taking away their tradition, culture, language and freedom. Thus making the people rise up and throw a rebellion and fight the Japanese for justice, pride and freedom. But this movie has a lot of interior elements as well. It really does a good job of now going down a narrow rebellion movie but brings out the scars, the harshness and manly pride. Some scenes are uncomfortable to see but it shows the brutality and the length the rebels are willing to go. The movie takes place in taiwan during the 1895 and 1945 on a land where two tribes use to fight each other. but what happens when a more menacing enemy comes to enslave all of them? This movie is simply very well crafted with good pacing and editing. Wei Te-Sheng seems like a talented director and I am grateful that his vision his got from a comic book came to life on the big screen. This feels kind of like a taiwanese version of the movie "300" except with more substance and emotion with scars going for it. Highly recommended to anyone that enjoys historical movies with some realistic guerrilla battle tactics.

8.2/10