Two Bunun men are hunting a boar, but they are attacked by a group led by young Mona Rudao of Seediq people. Mona Rudao invades the territory, kills one of them and takes away the boar.
2 November 1964, Taiwan
16 July 1979, Jianshi, Hsinchu, Taiwan
1 April 1939, Taiwan, Japan
19 May 1975, Kanagawa, Japan
10 November 1946, Hiroshima, Japan
17 October 1960, Yilan, Taiwan
9 February 1963, Kyoto, Japan
6 June 1981, Taiwan
19 March 1975, Taichung, Taiwan
17 August 1981, Tokyo, Japan
17 March 1955, Japan
September 05, 2012
Bruising, brutal tale of rebellion in early 20th Century Taiwan suffers from overkill.
April 26, 2012
As the war drags on, "Warriors of the Rainbow" outstays its welcome. I've never seen more severed heads in a film and cared less.
April 26, 2012
An ambitious, blood-soaked retelling of an uprising by Taiwanese natives against Japanese occupiers.
April 27, 2012
At times, Warriors sacrifices dramatic nuance for scale, but even its most rousing passages are tempered by a sense of loss.
April 26, 2012
At 2 1/2 hours, "Warriors" is a bruising, relentless experience, one more tiring than inspiring.
April 26, 2012
Taiwanese natives battle occupying Japanese forces in a doomed uprising. Exciting if exhausting account of a real-life incident.
April 23, 2012
There's something to be said about a two-and-a-half-hour war epic that manages to make each of its countless decapitation scenes feel earned, even called for, in the moment.
April 27, 2012
Given China's ongoing interest in the island and its unknowable future, this historical backstory behind current events is welcome indeed.
August 07, 2012
The Taiwanese epic doesn't shy away from anything even though the message is pretty hopeless. But all of the film's depth seems to have been stripped away.
April 26, 2012
You can see why Woo, the noted Hong Kong action director, would want to produce it: It fits right in with his "heroic bloodshed" cinematic legacy.
April 26, 2012
At two and a half hours, Warriors Of The Rainbow has the shape of something weightier than the simplified good-vs.-evil movie it actually is.

