This film is based on the true event of "Wushe incident"
Touch your bloodstained hands
Can they still hold the sand from our hunting grounds?
You've soiled me with blood.
Be still!
Get out!
Who the hell let you in?
Don't you know this is the Mehebu hunting ground?
I don't care if it's your hunting ground or theirs
because everything here belongs to us Japanese now
I hate the Japanese
no less than you do.
But do you realize that
we're going to die after all this and all our people will be wiped out?
Mouna,
you must keep the intruders away from our clan.
Inform the chiefs of all the 12 clans.
Tomorrow morning...
we're going to gather in Wushe
and offer a blood sacrifice to our ancestors.
My children! What are you doing?
What on earth are you doing, my children?
Tanah,
why are you doing this?
It was Mouna Rudo's idea.
How much regret do you swallow to fulfill your dreams?
Oh, children! What's wrong with you?
Oh, my children! What exactly is wrong with you?
Your dreams are vast like a blue ocean
We, the Hanaoka brothers are forced to leave this world
The savages are massacring the Japanese
bringing forth a situation out of control
Now we are driven to bay by the savages
and have no other choices
It is 9 o'clock on the morning of October 27th, 1930
The savages have already occupied most of this region
The commissioner and all his subordinates
have been killed in the school
Warriors of The Rainbow ll: Rainbow Bridge.
Make a phone call!
The Wushe savages are massacring the Japanese.
Make a phone call!
What happened?
Make a phone call!
Hurry!
How did it come to this?
Hurry up and call!
What happened?
What the hell?
- What... - The Wushe savages have revolted.
The Wushe savages have revolted.
Hurry up and call!
Phone!
Yes?
What?
The Wushe savages are massacring the Japanese?
Get everybody here right now.
- Massacre... - Gather all the policemen right away!
- The Wushe savages are hunting heads! - All the policemen gather up!
All the Japanese in the mountains have been killed.
And all the police stations have been burned down.
Only one of the Japanese survived.
Go back home! Come on! Hurry up!
The Wushe savages are coming down to kill more people.
They're coming to kill us.
Come on, everyone, hide!
- Don't get caught. - You bastard!
What are you talking about?
The Japanese knew already.
The savages are likely to charge all the way into Puli.
We're afraid even the plainsmen might seize the opportunity to join in the revolt.
This is an emergency.
All county governments please send in their armies and police forces
to lay siege to Wushe from Hualien and Tunghih.
And I want to know if the Governor-general can dispatch the troops
from Taipei and Tainan right away.
The Japanese this way, to the sugar refinery.
Come on! The family members of the Japanese to the sugar refinery.
Come on! Hurry up! Put all the stuff away.
This way! Hurry up!
The family members of the soldiers to the feedstock department.
The family members of the police to the mechanical department.
The family members of the officeholders to sugar extraction department! Come on!
You too. Come on!
- Come on! - Savages will always be savages.
You're nothing but beasts
I never know what you savages are thinking.
It's time for me to teach you a lesson.
Speak Japanese!
No one understands your savage language.
Your tribesmen have revolted.
No more peaceful life for you.
It's chilly!
Come on, Pihu!
Get a larger chunk of wood.
Good morning.
Chief!
It's chilly out here.
Why aren't you inside the house by the fire
instead of weaving this bag?
It's the first snow of this winter.
How could I miss it?
The snow has come early this year.
Takun,
what are you doing?
Takun!
Temu,
your son will perform well on sports day again, won't he?
Takun, what's going on?
You've got blood all over your body.
Takun!
What's wrong with you?
Chief,
today Mouna Rudo from Mehebu Clan
led the Seediqs from Tgdaya to offer a blood sacrifice to our ancestors.
They've occupied the whole Wushe region.
We Seediqs from Toda should join them as well.
Let's kill this Japanese man!
No way!
Kojima is our friend.
He's a good Japanese, not a bad one.
Go away!
Temu!
You're the chief of all the Seediqs from Toda.
Why don't you drive the Japanese away
and lead your own people?
Why should you expect the good Japanese to rule us?
He's right!
We don't have any Japanese friends.
Don't come any closer!
Kojima,
we'll let you answer the phone.
But...
do you have the guts to do it?
Have I been bad to you?
Kojima...
Is this how you repay me?
I can't fight back if you want me dead.
But the Japanese government
will do anything to punish you.
We might as well die together.
Kojima!
We have airplanes, but do you?
We have machineguns and cannons, but do you?
Think about how Mouna Rudo used to insult you.
Last time when we're out hunting they threatened to kill you all.
Don't you remember?
Are you willing to die with them in the battlefield?
Temu Walis,
you won't have the chance to grow up.
Hello?
Take it easy! There's more!
Hurry up!
Come on!
Chief Mouna?
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you all.
Thank you.
- Thank you. - Come on!
Thank you. Thank you all.
Thank you.
Tado!
Sapu, where's my father?
What's going on? Why did they want us back?
Father,
why did you give up Hakaw Supeitei?
So you're back!
Come on, let's go back to our clan.
Back to our clan?
You're giving up here as well?
Tado,
you can't think like the Japanese when fighting them.
You have to think like the wind.
The wind?
The wind is invisible.
Baso,
give up everything, everyone and come back to the clan with me
Japanese airplanes!
- Over there! - Fire!
Shoot it! Come on!
Are you so scared?
Are you really so scared?
I went head hunting for the first time when I was 15
I was so nervous that my arms and legs were trembling.
But my eyes were sharp as arrows.
As soon as I cut the enemy's head off
I forgot what it was like to be scared
because I knew
I'd go back to my clan to feast and celebrate, being treated as a hero
because I knew that
all my people male and female, young and old
would respect me for my bravery.
However,
it's different this time.
We successfully offered a blood sacrifice to our ancestors today
and are now qualified to stride over the rainbow bridge
but what awaits us
now is not a festive feast
but to choose how we die.
Run the electricity!
Before we initiated the revolt
you knew it'd turn out like this, didn't you?
My children...
...don't be scared.
You've been very brave today.
Our ancestors' spirits have seen it all.
But the battle to come is the real one.
It's a battle that will terrify the invaders.
Someone's here!
Sisin babblers in the forests are driving off the scavenging crows.
The rainbow will be more beautiful in the sunlight after the rain.
It's a bunch of Hans from Wushe.
Lock them all up!
My children...
...don't be afraid.
Our ancestors' spirits know we're good warriors guarding our hunting grounds.
The blood stains on your hands can prove it.
Every one of you is a Seediq Bale.
Remember,
you have to be proud.
Let's cross the rainbow bridge together.
Nobody's guarding here.
Not a single soul on this path.
How could it be?
Advance!
Wait!
Stop! Halt!
Don't rush uphill
I know these savages all too well.
What a chilly night!
It's warm here.
Savages!
Hold the fire!
I'm trekking over the high mountains
The creek water is so thick and muddy
I can't help but shed my tears
I'm walking along a wide road
He's asleep.
Ichiro?
Today is our wedding anniversary.
You remember, don't you?
We're walking on with perseverance and determination
We can't fall asleep any more
Let's go back to the heavenly home of our ancestors
Kojima!
Long time no see.
Captain!
Let me introduce you, Captain.
This is the chief of Tnbarah Clan, Temu Walis.
Got a good head on his shoulders.
Kojima?
I heard all your family were killed in the venue?
We will seek revenge.
Attack!
Officer, nothing here.
Officer Goto!
What the hell are these savages up to?
The Japanese are coming!
- Look behind you. - Yeah.
This clan is over here.
This clan is over there.
Behind them is a creek.
Where do the Hans live?
The Hans...
We're under attack! Duck!
Hide!
Awata! Awata!
Contact the Oizumi Squad
and find out where they are now.
This is Wushe Substation.
This is Oizumi Squad.
We're now by Suku Creek.
We're ambushed by the savages. We need back up.
We're stuck in the creek water.
Oizumi Squad...
Captain?
Assemble a banzai squad for a suicide charge.
Where is Yamada Police Squad?
Charge!
Pihu, let's go!
Watch out! Dodge!
Duck! Seek cover!
The women and children from Boarung Clan are all here.
Come on, let's go!
Have you packed up enough clothes, Mahung?
Yes, I have.
Pawan,
you kids know how to get there.
Take the Boarung women and children along
with those of us that are ready.
Baso, I'm no longer a child.
Don't let the dogs follow us We don't have enough food.
Mahung,
are you ready? Is it heavy?
Mahung,
you go ahead with Pawan and others
I'll wait for Sapu.
Why is everyone in here?
Mother, don't touch that!
You're out of your minds! The men in this house have all gone mad.
Go ahead to Paran Clan, Obing.
No!
Jiro, let me stay with you.
Jiro!
- Let go of me! - All pregnant women go to Paran Clan.
Auntie, I'm the wife of a policeman
but I'm the daughter of the Gungu Chief as well.
Auntie,
let go of me!
- Let go... - Give birth to your child in Paran Clan.
Jiro! I want to stay with you!
I don't want to go there, Auntie!
Give birth to your child in Paran Clan.
They're all pregnant.
The Japanese won't harm them.
Pawan!
What is it?
The cavern is right up ahead.
You can carry these over by yourselves.
We have to go now.
But where to?
- No, Mother! - Grandmother!
- Mother! - Grandmother!
- No, Mother! - Grandmother!
What are you doing?
Mother, don't!
- Grandmother! - What are you doing?
Chief Mouna and others will be here soon.
- Grandmother! - Mother!
You'll have to fight the Japanese for a long time.
There's not enough food for all of us.
What are you talking about?
Chief Mouna told us we're going to fight our decisive battle soon.
Grandmother!
Pawan!
I'm so glad that you're a warrior now guarding our hunting grounds.
We'll be waiting for you at the other end of the rainbow bridge.
You'll be meeting us after you finish your glorious battles.
Stop following us!
- Fight for your hunting grounds. - Mother!
Grandmother,
don't you want me any more?
Mother!
Pawan, please tell my husband Watan
that I'll have the wine ready for him at the other end of the rainbow bridge.
Watan is building up huts in the cavern.
You can go tell him yourself.
Lubi! Lubi!
- Stop following us! - Mother!
- Don't follow us! - Mother, don't!
- Please... - Mother!
- Don't cry. - Grandmother!
Listen to me...
you're a grownup man now.
Go on!
- Grandmother! - To the battlefield!
- Fight for your hunting grounds! - Grandmother!
To the battlefield!
Grandmother!
- Mother! - Grandmother!
Mother!
- Don't go, Mother! - Grandmother!
Mother...
With tears in my eyes
I'm walking along a wide road
I beseech you
Tell me if your hearts are at peace
Oh, poor innocent children
What's the matter with you?
We're really exhausted
Hanako?
You look just as pretty as you were on our wedding day.
Good boy! Close your eyes!
My child, let's go together.
Jiro?
Are we the subjects of Japan's Mikado?
Or the descendants of the Seediq ancestors?
Do it.
Cut it up and end your conflicts right here and now.
We don't have to go anywhere once we're dead.
Let's both be free wandering spirits.
Thank you.
This way please, General.
This is Officer Kabasoa, sir.
He's a local policeman
and he knows the Wushe savages very well.
Then why are you still alive?
He was not there when the incident happened.
General,
according to our investigation
there are six clans involved in the revolt
over 300 warriors in all.
Warriors?
You call them "warriors".
Each of these clans took actions separately at dawn
and annihilated the local police stations.
Then they got together to besiege Wushe.
That's why we don't think it incidental.
They had been planning it carefully from the beginning.
Planning it carefully?
Mr. Kabasoa?
Don't you think you're overestimating these savages?
General, all our reinforcements
were under fatal attacks yesterday
...including here.
This is nothing but animal-like savagery.
Once the rain stops, we'll besiege them immediately.
Yes, sir!
Headquarters of Kamada Detachment
Chief,
are we going for the decisive battle tomorrow?
Ah, it hurts!
Chief, the wounds are still fresh.
Pawan,
you're not a child any more.
Chief,
can we fight the decisive battle now?
What's happening?
Give me the gun!
Hurry up!
Let's go!
Hurry up!
Be careful!
Go over there!
Be careful!
Stop!
The savages!
Stop running!
Over there!
What the hell?
Fire!
Retreat!
All retreat!
Hurry up and run!
Seek covers! Down there!
Signalman, call for reinforcements.
Retreat downhill!
Hide!
Out of the way!
Watch out!
Quite slippery here.
Are you alright?
Halt, everyone!
Jump!
Machine gun!
- Step back! - Take aim!
You're aiming too high! Hold on to your guns!
Come on, fire it, Sapu ! What are you waiting for?
I can't fire it.
Move over! I'll do it!
Come on! Hurry up!
What the hell? Fell asleep or something?
Over there! Come on!
HE'S gone!
If I aim at the rock deliberately
will the bullet bounce off and hit the officer over there?
Why don't you give it a try?
No, it won't.
Have you two got too many bullets?
No,
but that is a military officer with a katana sword.
Chief,
Tado robbed a couple of machineguns.
Chief Mouna asked us to bring you one...
and...
here's the ammunition and...
and this bag of sweet potatoes.
Kids nowadays are so weak.
Look how they pant with so little running.
Do you know how to use it?
I don't think this machinegun works.
Why did you give me one that doesn't work?
That damned Mouna!
Chief Dahdo...
My Paran relatives told me...
that your entire family committed suicide.
Chief Dahdo,
a bigger and more powerful army is coming our way.
They have lots of cannons.
Pawan,
when I was young
I was no less strong or brave than your Mehebu Chief Mouna Rudo
you understand?
Awi,
lead the group and retreat to Rkudaya.
Chief!
Chief! Chief!
Retreat! To Rkudaya!
Give it to me! Let's go!
Retreat to Rkudaya! Our chief's dead!
Come on!
Pihu, come on!
Retreat to Rkudaya!
Come on! To Rkudaya!
Come on! Let's go!
Fire!
Chase them!
Come on!
Run in separate ways ! Let's meet up in Rkudaya!
Hurry up! Come on!
Awi, come on!
Here comes the airplane again!
Why is Pihu still there?
Come on!
Hurry up, Pihu!
The bridge is collapsing!
Come on, the bridge is collapsing!
Medic! Medic!
Hurry up!
No matter which route we took
we were ambushed by them.
These savages are too good at this.
We should ask for more reinforcements,
otherwise...
With thousands of soldiers and all kinds of powerful weapons
and you ended up being toyed with by 300 savages?
Our airplanes have been patrolling and bombing all this time
without killing any savage.
And you call yourselves military officers?
Those savages played hit and run.
They're like ghosts.
They ran easily over the ragged mountain paths
that we barely walked properly on.
We never knew where they came from or where they disappeared to.
They were so unpredictable.
For example, a kid named Pawan Nawi...
We saw him here the day before yesterday
but we found him here yesterday.
Then he was here today.
These are three different places far away from one another.
No one knows how he managed to do so
I don't know.
Pawan, have you fought any battle?
- Pawan! - Chief Mouna!
Chief Dahdo Nokan from Gungu Clan
was killed in a battle.
Has anyone seen Mouna Rudo yet?
Answer me!
No, sir.
That old bastard!
He had the guts to revolt
but he dares not confront me personally.
What kind of warrior is he? What kind of chief is he?
Be quiet!
They've got lines and lines of defense
and endless reinforcement
I can't believe those savages
would have battle plans so well-knit.
Ask the high command to provide us with gas bombs.
Gas bombs?
I wanted you to be civilized
but you forced me to be savage.
You're Mouna Rudo
but I'm Kamada Yahiko.
From now on...
you're part of the Japanese military and police forces.
You'll have to follow our wartime decrees.
Those of you who fight bravely
will be rewarded accordingly.
But those of you
who fail to take orders from the Japanese police or run away
will be punished harshly by law.
Do you understand?
Now I'm announcing the bounties of head-hunting.
We'll give every one of you a gun.
Come and sign for it after this.
A chief...
150 to 200 dollars.
An able-bodied man, 100.
A woman, 30.
A child, 20.
And a special bounty for the head of...
...Mouna Rudo!
Gas bombs?
But sir,
gas bombs are still being experimented on.
We don't know the effects yet.
Yes, sir.
But currently it's not ready for use.
Yes, sir.
Come on!
Watan, you go that way!
Sapu!
I'm alright. They hit my sweet potatoes.
Don't stop! Run!
Shoot! Shoot him!
Come on!
Out of the way!
Over there!
- A Seediq from Tgdaya! - Where?
He's over there!
Kill him!
Burn it down!
Temu!
Come on! Run!
Chief Mouna!
It's me, Pawan.
Chief Mouna!
It's me, Pawan Nawi.
Chief Mouna,
we heard what Baso told you.
We know that a large number of Japanese soldiers have gathered in Suku Clan.
Time for the decisive battle, isn't it?
Chief Mouna,
we have no family now.
Why don't you let us fight?
Like everyone else,
none of us can sleep or eat
and we don't want to be killed by gas bombs.
Chief Mouna,
look at the tattoos on our faces.
We're not children any more.
Please let us fight the Japanese
like everybody else.
Then I can have a good, long rest.
We're so tired.
We're really exhausted.
My children,
do you remember where our ancestors came from?
Mt. White Stone...
- I know. Once upon a time... - Let me tell the story!
Quiet!
Can't you wait?
A good hunter should learn how to lie in wait!
Pawan, you tell the story.
Once upon a time on Mt. White Stone
there was a big tree called Pusu Qhuni.
The tree trunk...
was half wood, half stone.
One day, a boy and a girl were born from the tree trunk.
Then the couple gave birth to lots of children
and here we are, the Seediq Bale.
Let me help you, Awi.
It's ready, my brother
I'm ready.
Let go, my brother.
Pihu Walis...
- Don't go! - Let go!
I'm in great pain.
Don't go
I'm not fighting any more!
No more!
You son of a bitch!
What do you mean by not fighting?
Kojima!
- What do you mean by that? - Kojima!
Pick it up!
Pick up your gun!
- Out of my way! - Temu!
Temu!
We fight to offer blood sacrifice to our ancestors
not to revenge the death of your family.
Temu,
I know what you saw
but Mouna Rudo has spread the word asking for your head.
This is not the time to make trouble.
Father,
you told me only the bravest warriors
are qualified to guard the most beautiful hunting ground.
So that's why Mouna Rudo's people
and we have to fight one another constantly
to prove to our ancestors that we're the bravest warriors?
So in the eternal hunting ground at the other end of the rainbow
we'll become allies forever
and there would be no more hatred?
Yeah, I guess so
I want to fight them
if possible to prove my bravery.
Sleep, my boy.
Is that our man?
Get him! He's a savage! Come on!
Stop!
What's wrong?
A savage ran over the suspension bridge into the woods.
- From there? - Yes, from there.
Gather up!
Gather up, First Team!
Gather up!
First Team!
Stop!
Good.
Come closer...
Good.
Stop, you little bastard.
Aoki!
- Okubo! - Aoki!
- Where are you? - Aoki!
- Okubo! - Aoki!
Aoki! Okubo!
Let's split up and search!
Aoki!
Okubo! Aoki!
Stop!
Everybody, stop!
These Seediqs from Tgdaya are driven crazy by hunger.
Okubo!
Where are you?
Aoki!
Where are you?
Okubo!
Someone's there!
- Where? - In that tree!
Get down!
- Get down! - Hide!
Machineguns?
Get the mortars!
Signalman! Signalman!
Here come the savages!
It's you then.
Chief, Baso is hit!
Baso! Baso!
Baso!
We're in the Mehebu Forest.
Baso! Baso!
Baso, are you alright?
Baso, be still!
Retreat!
Come on, retreat!
Get out!
Get out! Hurry!
Inside the hut! Come on!
Get in! Come on!
Out of here!
Don't come in! Get out!
Come on! Run!
Yes, sir.
Is it Mehebu Clan?
Yes, sir.
Aim all cannons at the Mehebu Forest.
End this battle before the sun's out.
Tado!
Kill me!
Come on!
It hurts so badly!
Out of the way!
Cut my head off! You hear me?
Get off him!
It's beautiful.
So beautiful.
Stop firing please.
They ran away.
Fight till you drop! Seediq Bale!
Fire the cannons! Fire!
We're under attack!
You damned Japanese! Get out of our territory!
You bastards! Get out!
That's one favor I did you Mehebus today helping you drive our the intruders.
Out of my way! Let me kill them!
Temu, give me the bullets!
Come on! Look out!
Climb up there!
Sine! Sine!
Sine!
Sine! Sine!
Stop!
Come back here!
You take care of him!
Load the guns! Come on!
Pawan?
You Japanese are finished!
- Quick! - Catch him!
Off with his head!
Stop!
Don't let him slip away!
Mouna Rudo!
Stop running!
Kill until our blood runs out!
Cut off their heads like true warriors!
The heavenly home of our ancestors, here we come!
I'm a chief, not your little brother.
Iyung! Iyung!
Don't touch it, Iyung.
Iyung!
What are you doing? Move!
Look out! It's falling down!
Pawan! Get out of there!
Pawan, get out now!
Pawan!
Iyung! Iyung!
Are you alright?
Pawan, I've got a good gun.
What's wrong?
- Batu! - Dakis!
Move!
Ubus!
Come on! The Japanese are out!
Watch out over there!
There's one behind him!
Don't go there!
Stop!
Bomb!
So you're Mouna Rudo.
Now I see you clearly.
Tado,
how do we dodge those cannons?
Chief,
let this ghost lead the way.
Fire!
Look!
Cherry blossoms everywhere!
Those who come forward voluntarily will be spared Come to the shelters to surrender
I'm crossing the rainbow bridge
I am Mouna Rudo
Look at the road I've trodden
No one's ever gonna stop us
The determined warriors
We're home with our enemy's heads
We're true warriors, like budding pine leaves
You must be starved
and you must be exhausted.
It's time to decide your future.
If you want to take your own life, do it.
If you want to turn yourself in, go ahead.
If you want to keep fighting...
Tado.
My dear son...
The hero of Mehebu Clan.
Lead them to fight until you use up all your bullets.
Father!
Chief...
Warriors,
forgive me.
Forgive me
I don't want the Japanese to insult me in front of my people.
Forgive me
I'll be waiting for you on the mountain peak.
Let's cross the rainbow bridge together to the eternal hunting ground.
Father?
Go...
Seediq Bale!
Chief Mouna?
Bakan,
bring over everyone from the chief's family.
Iwan,
go back and tell our people in the cavern
that those who don't want to surrender may as well kill themselves
I want to fight!
Me too!
It's over!
Mouna!
Mouna, where's your ancestral spirit?
Where is it?
There could be greater suffering if you survived.
Wipe your face clean.
Thank you, women and children
for sacrificing yourselves to complete the men's souls.
Shelter for Savages Protect
She's awake!
That savage woman is awake!
Officer Kabasoa!
- What's going on? - That savage woman is awake.
- Is it Mahung? - Yes, sir.
Excuse me!
Let me through!
Mahung! Mahung!
Mahung...
I'm Kabasawa.
I've been to your house.
Do you remember me, Mahung?
Why did you save me?
My husband and children are waiting for me.
Mahong...
100 dollars.
Son of a bitch! What are you doing?
Don't put it on the desk!
What are you looking at? Next!
It's only a child. You can't get 100 for it.
Get it off!
It's Temu Mouna from Truwan Clan.
What child? Don't you see the tattoos on his face?
Put it over there! What a nuisance!
It's Tanah Robe, the Boarung chief.
One of you from Gungu Clan killed our chief.
This one is Pawan Nawi from Mehebu Clan.
Ukan! Tado!
Where are you?
Where is that father going?
The father carrying a child on his back
is setting out to shoot the two suns in the sky
They go on and on for a long way
The child grows up
The father dies at an old age
The child takes his father's bow and arrows
The child follows his father's footsteps
toward the rising suns
He gets there at last
The child gets there at last
The child shoots a sun down with an arrow
The sun loses its rays
The dead sun becomes the moon
He's a sun-shooting hero
The sun-shooting hero is returning home
The sun-shooting hero has come a long, long way
The sun-shooting hero is home at last
But the hero is already gray-headed
I am drunk today
I saw him on the way
The boy from the freezing winter
A fair-skinned boy like a budding pine leaf
Let's dance together
Let's enjoy ourselves
I'm drunk today
Young girls, let's dance together
Surrender?
Why should we surrender?
We've had our enemy's sake wine.
Doesn't that mean conciliation?
Why do we have to surrender?
- Tado... - Say no more!
Come on, drink with me.
Mahung, my little sister...
it's much easier for me to die
than for you to go on living.
But you must endure
and have lots of children.
Teach them everything about the pride of our father.
Let your children have even more children
and more and more...
Mahung,
have lots of children.
Raise them up to be proud Seediqs
and to live on with pride.
Do you understand?
Father, Baso and I...
along with all our fallen people
will be watching over you from the rainbow bridge.
Look!
The sun is so beautiful.
Oh, my wife!
ls the wine ready now?
Here I come, my wife and children
On my way to the heavenly home of our ancestors
Wait a little longer for me please
I'll be seeing you soon
We're already on our way
Oh my wife and children, wait a little longer
Wait for us on the way to the heavenly home of our ancestors
Oh my wife and children, wait a little longer
We're almost there
We're about to cross the road
We'll be seeing you in no time
Wait for us on the way to the heavenly home of our ancestors
Oh my wife and children, wait a little longer
We're almost there
We're about to cross the road
We'll be seeing you in no time
Pihu Sapu was beaten up to death
in the detention house after he got caught
Tado Mouna and the last surviving warriors all committed suicide
Mouna Rudo disappeared without a trace
300 warriors against thousands of soldiers.
Those survived the battle killed themselves eventually.
Why did I see in such a remote mountain area in Taiwan
the bushido of samurais that died over a century ago in Japan?
Is it because the cherry blossoms here are far too red?
No,
these flowers have bloomed early this year.
It isn't the season of cherry blossoms yet.
After the incident...
Kojima Genji instigated the Seediqs from Toda
to revenge the death of their chief Temu Walis
by killing all the remaining defenseless tribesmen
staying in the shelter during the night
Out of the way!
Hurry up!
The few surviving tribesmen were forced
to relocate to a compound along Peikang River
Out of the way!
where the Japanese could monitor them easily
They burned down all their remaining houses
before they left
Four years later...
Mouna Rudo's remains were found
inside a cavern, somewhere deep in the mountains
Half of his body rotted to skeleton
while the other half was weathered to a mummy
In the following year...
the Japanese publicly displayed his remains and weapons
in a wooden crate at the exhibition celebrating the completion
of Nenggao City Hall construction project
After that, his remains disappeared once again
at the heavenly home of our ancestors
Yes, it's for real
Reminisce the people from the past
After the second disappearance
Mouna Rudo's remains were recovered 39 years later
in the specimen room of the College of Medicine
in National Taiwan University
Escorted by his offspring
after 43 years, he finally returned to his hometown Wushe
to be buried properly
We go hunting in the mountains
We share food in our clan
We fetch water from the creeks
I'm willing to give my life for these
Oh, creek! Be quiet!
Sisin babblers are singing
Sing us a beautiful song please
Sing for our people
a song of our ancestral spirit
I'm willing to give my life too
When the lightening rifts the rock
a rainbow appears
and a proud man emerges
A proud man emerges
Who is this man so proud?
It's your offspring
A Seediq Bale
Once upon a time on Mt. White Stone
there was a big tree called Pusu Qhuni.
The tree trunk...
was half wood, half stone.
One day, a boy and a girl were born from the tree trunk.
Then the couple gave birth to lots of children
and here we are, the Seediq Bale.
Behold! The beautiful rainbow over the hilltop
My wife and children, have you brewed the wine?
Drink it! The wine we offer to our ancestors' spirits
Behold! What beautiful rainbow!
My ancestors are calling me
My wife and children! Are you on your way to meet our ancestors spirits?
We should get going too
Stand still, our people who keep the bloodline going
We will be proud like a true Seediq
Our bodiless spirits will be watching over you from the rainbow bridge
Tell every child to live on forever
To live on like a true Seediq
Our bodiless spirits will keep you company in the woods
Behold! What beautiful rainbow!
My ancestors are calling me
My wife and children! Are you on your way to meet our ancestors spirits?
We should be on our way too
Stand still, our people who keep the bloodline going
We will be proud like a true Seediq
Our bodiless spirits will be watching over you from the rainbow bridge
Tell every child to live on forever
To live on like a true Seediq
Our bodiless spirits will keep you company in the woods
- Look! - Drink! Drink!
- What a beautiful sky! - We should be on our way
- Look! - Drink! Drink!
- What a beautiful sky! - We should be on our way
Children!
Did you see that? We see the rainbow
Children!
Did you see that? We see the rainbow
Children!
Did you see that? We see the rainbow
Children!
Did you see that? We see the rainbow
Children!
Did you see that? We see the rainbow
Children!
Did you see that? We see the rainbow
We see the rainbow