Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale

Mona Rudao, a leader of the Seediq tribe, guides his people through the misty mountain forests of Taiwan, where every hunt and ritual honors the ancestral spirits. Their intricate world, woven from ancient codes and a profound bond with the land, fractures with the arrival of Japanese colonial forces in the 1930s. The interlopers see only timber in the sacred woods and servitude in the proud hunters. As humiliation and forced labor strip away their dignity, the Seediq face a harrowing crossroads: to live on their knees under foreign rule or to reclaim their manhood through a suicidal rebellion, knowing that true freedom may only be found beyond the rainbow bridge in the afterlife.