“Based on a history of Taiwan’s aboriginal people,” as the opening titles put it, this is a sweeping historical epic with no less than John Woo and his longtime producing partner Terence Chang serving ...

BEIJING — Taiwan’s entry for the foreign-language Oscar, “Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale,” has received more nominations than any other movie in the biggest Chinese-language kudofest, the Golden ...

Pictured here on September 23, Taiwanese director Wei Te-sheng posing with a poster of his latest movie "Seediq Bale," an epic tale of Taiwan's indigenous tribes fighting against Japanese colonial ...

Reader David has responded to my call for tips about the latest Asian cinema, directing me to a trailer for a new Taiwanese war epic, Seediq Bale. Here\'s part of the synopsis from the official ...

Taiwan's acclaimed aboriginal war epic "Seediq Bale" will be screened in China next month, its director said Tuesday, after concerns the film would not be approved for release by authorities. But the ...

A violent anti-Japanese uprising from Taiwan's aboriginal past is recounted with bombast and brutality in "Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale." Pic will be released locally mid-September in a ...

With a cast of fifteen thousand and billed as the most expensive film in the history of Taiwanese cinema, Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale recounts an extraordinary though little known historical ...

It’s not clear what Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale values more—endless preaching about ancestral spirits or gruesome CG decapitations. Wei Te-sheng’s lurching historical epic concerns the 1930 ...

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