Lin Ching-Tai is a 52-year-old Presbyterian minister in Taiwan. But for the epic action film “Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale,” he traded his vestments for tattoos and a fake scar, transforming into the legendary aboriginal chief Mouna Rudo, who led a bloody rebellion against Japanese colonizers of the island in 1930. The movie is now playing in Los Angeles.
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An epic film about an aboriginal tribe’s rebellion against Japanese colonial rulers and a sensitive domestic drama took the top honors at Saturday night’s 48th Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan. Read Post
In select theaters Friday is Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale, the epic historical retelling of a little-known uprising in 1930s Taiwan in which the indigenous Seediq people battled Japanese forces against all odds, suffering gr... Read Post
Want action? In the opening scene of Wei Te-Sheng’s historical epic Warriors Of The Rainbow: Seediq Bale, a young boy races through the jungles of Taiwan, chasing after a boar. Just as he fells the animal with an arrow, he catches a... Read Post