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Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale I (2011)
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Action , Drama , History
Masanobu Andô , Jun'ichi Haruta , Sabu Kawahara , Nolay Piho , Chih-Hsiang Ma , Vivian Hsu , Mei-Ling Lo , Landy Wen , Da-Ching ,
Pawan Nawi , Yakau Kuhon , Pawan Neyung , Yuan-Jie Lin , Chih-Wei Cheng , Yi-Fan Hsu , Soda Voyu
Te-Sheng Wei
IMDB 144
2011
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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