WARRIORS OF THE RAINBOW: SEEDIQ BALE Receives Limited Release Today

Well Go USA Entertainment's theatrical release of Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale, is today, April 27. The film is Taiwan's official entry for the Academy Awards® foreign language category. The film will open in key markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Washington, D.C., Toronto, Vancouver, Austin, and Honolulu.

Produced by John Woo, the epicWarriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale was directed by Wei Te-Sheng (Cape No. 7) and tells the true story of Taiwan's aboriginal people who were almost wiped out by Japanese colonizers in the 1930s. The film stars Lin Ching-Tai, Umin Boya, Ando Masanobu, Kawahara Sabu, Vivian Hsu, Lo Mei-Ling, Landy Wen, Da Ching, Pawan Nawi, Yakau Kuhon, Lee Shih-Chia and Lin Yuan-Jie

The film is described as centering around "some eighty years ago, in the mountains of Taiwan, as two races clashed in defense of their faiths.  One race believed in rainbows, the other believed in the sun.  Neither side realized that they both believed in the same sky.  Wei Te-sheng's epic film Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale reclaims an extraordinary episode from 20th-century history which is little-known even in Taiwan.  Between 1895 and 1945, the island was a Japanese colony inhabited not only by the majority (Han Chinese Immigrants) but also by the remnants of the aboriginal tribes who first settled the mountainous land.  In 1930 Mouna Rudo, the leader of the Seediq tribe settled on and around Mount Chilai, forged a coalition with other Seediq tribal leaders and plotted a rebellion against their Japanese colonial masters.  It was to begin at a sports day meeting where the assembled tribesmen were to attach and kill the Japanese officials and would then broaden to sieges on police stations and local government offices in the region.  The initial uprising took the Japanese by surprise and was almost entirely successful.  But the Japanese soon sent in their army to crush the rebellion, using aircraft and poison gas."