Today let’s take a brief introduction of a famous Chinese movie named “Seediq Bale”.Seediq Bale is a 2011 Taiwanese historical drama film directed by Wei Te-Sheng and produced by John Woo, based on Wushe Incident in central Taiwan in 1930. It took Wei Te-Sheng twelve years to design and involved twenty thousand actors from China and Japan. It firstly opened in Taiwan in September, 2011. Later on, this film won several awards of the Golden Horse Award, such as Best Feature Film, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Film Song, Best Sound Effects, etc.

The film is divided into two parts – the full versions in Taiwan, the part 1 is called “太阳旗” (The Flag of Sun), and the part 2 is called “彩虹桥” (The Bridge of Rainbow). It tells the true story of Taiwan’s aboriginal people who were almost wiped out by Japanese colonizers in the 1930s. Their rebellion under the leadership of Chief Mouna Rudo is recounted in a spectacular, almost non-stop sequence of grisly hand-to-hand combat scenes. They then moved all surviving Seediq tribespeople to an offshore island (they named it Kawanaka-hara-jima) connected to the mainland only by a flimsy suspension bridge. The Seediqs were finally isolated and contained.

 

金馬奖Jīnmǎ Jiǎng: a film award in Taiwan. It was founded in 1962, by Government Information Office, Republic of China (Taiwan).
賽德克族Sàidékè Zú: a Taiwanese aboriginal people who live primarily in Nantou County and Hualien County. Their language is also known as Seediq. They were officially recognised as Taiwan’s 14th indigenous group on 23 April 2008. Previously, the Seediq, along with the closely related Truku people, were classified as Atayal.