Sai de ke · ba lai: Tai yang qi (2011)

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.

Director:

Te-Sheng Wei

Writer:

Te-Sheng Wei (screenplay)

Stars:

Masanobu Andô, Jun'ichi Haruta, Sabu Kawahara

13 wins & 23 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Nolay Piho	...	Mona Rudao (as Lin Ching-tai)
Chih-Hsiang Ma	...	Temu Walis (as Umin Boya)
Masanobu Andô	...	Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
Sabu Kawahara	...	General Yahiko Kamada
Vivian Hsu	...	Obing Tadao aka Hatsuko Takayama
Mei-Ling Lo	...	Obing Nawi aka Hanako Kawano
Landy Wen	...	Mahung Mona (Mona's Daughter)
Da-Ching	...	Mona Rudao - Young
Pawan Nawi	...	Chief Rudao Luhe, Mona's Father
Yakau Kuhon	...	Tado Mona (Mona's Eldest Son)
Pawan Neyung	...	Baso Mona (Mona's Younger Son) (as Lee Shih-chia)
Yuan-Jie Lin	...	Pawan Nawi
Chih-Wei Cheng	...	Biho Sapo
Yi-Fan Hsu	...	Ichiro Hanaoka aka Dakis Nomin (as Bokeh Kosang)
Soda Voyu	...	Jiro Hanaoka aka Dakis Nawi

Storyline

During the Japanese rule of Taiwan, the Seediq were forced to lose their own culture and give up their faith. Men were subject to harsh labor and kept from traditional hunting; whereas women had to serve the Japanese policemen and their families by doing the household work and giving up their traditional weaving work. Above all, they were forbidden to tattoo their faces. And these tattoos were seen as the Seediq's traditional belief to transform themselves into Seediq Bale ("true humans"). Mona Rudao, the protagonist, witnessed the repression by the Japanese over a period of 30 years. Sometime between autumn and winter 1930, when the slave labor is at its harshest, a young Seediq couple are married and a joyful party is thrown. At the same time, a newly appointed Japanese policeman goes on his inspection tour to this tribe. Mona Rudao's first son, Tado Mona, offers wine to the policeman with gusto, but is in return beaten up because his hands were considered not clean enough. With ...

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Plot Keywords:

taiwanese actor playing japanese character | taiwanese actress playing japanese character | epic | 

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Genres:

Action | Drama | History

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

Taiwan

Language:

Aboriginal Japanese Hokkien

Release Date:

9 September 2011 (Taiwan)

Also Known As:

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag

Box Office

Budget:

TWD 700,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$57,183, 27 April 2012, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$136,166, 27 April 2012

Company Credits

Production Co:

ARS Film Production,Central Motion Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

144 min 154 min (international) 156 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Taiwan's official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 84th Academy Awards 2012. To meet Academy regulations, the four-and-half-hour full version of the diptych was submitted as one entry.

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Quotes

Mona Rudao: Dakis, when you die, are you entering a Japanese shrine, or the heavenly home of our ancestors? Are you Dakis or Hanaoka Ichiro?

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Connections

Followed by Sai de ke · ba lai: Cai hong qiao (2011)

User Reviews

Watch 'The Last of the Mohicans (1992)' first,

then try to watch this 'Warriors of The Rainbow', and tell me if you could spot the similarities of these two movies. The invasion of the British soldiers to north America vs the Japanese soldiers invaded Taiwan; then there's a great fighter among the Mohicans warriors on par with a ferocious fighter among the Taiwanese aboriginal tribes; then again, the Mohicans got feudal sworn enemy of another tribe to the similar feud of two Taiwanese aboriginal tribes....Then when i watched this movie, i suddenly realized that the whole picture is more like when the American forces invaded Iraq, there were tribes to become the collaborators helping Americans and using them to help killed their own feudal enemies... But this is the first time that I felt this movie was a very mature production since I never found anything like it out of Taiwan. Because usually, all movies from Taiwan, the dialogs were disgustingly embarrassing feminine, males whining like females. Yet this movie is absolutely masculine and this is first time that I felt the male population in Taiwan sounded and acted more like man, not just whiners. Furthermore, this is also the first time that I consider this movie is at a higher international level with great acting, directing and cinematographic achievement. And this is very rare to me and totally win my respect back to the Taiwanese movie industry. Salute!