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（China Daily）  09:19, January 06, 2013

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale

Wei Te-sheng's blood-soaked epic offers impressive depictions of Taiwan's magnificent landscapes and brave characters.

Taiwan was a Japanese colony from 1895 until 1945. In 1930, the Seediq tribe, one of the aboriginal peoples who first settled on the mountainous land, rose up against the Japanese.

The film provides in-depth exploration of a little-known episode in history and the relationship between civilization and barbarism, and good and evil.

But due to the bizarre title, the 150-minute length and lousy marketing, it didn't perform very well in the mainland box office.