Original subtitles

Mouna! Take it easy!

A good hunter waits patiently

Out of the way! Let me do it!

Move!

Mouna! Mouna!

Mouna, be careful!

Mouna!

Mouna, here come the Bununs from Kntabang Clan!

Let's go! Come on!

Come on, let's go! Leave the boar!

There he is!

Mouna, get down!

Over there!

- Mouna is over there! - Shoot him!

Come on! Hurry!

Listen to me! My name is Mouna Rudo!

Be alert when you hear this name again!

It's your Mouna! He's back!

It's Mouna!

Mouna is a true man now

Mouna is back!

Well done, Mouna!

The hero is back!

Mouna...

you've offered blood sacrifice to our ancestors' spirits

I hereby tattoo the marks of manhood on your face

From now on...

you shall abide by our ancestral spirit

to guard our clan and our hunting grounds

On the rainbow bridge

our ancestors' spirits await the reunion with your valiant soul

In 1895

the island of Taiwan was ceded to Japan

under the Treaty of Shimonoseki between Japan and China

The island of Taiwan is the new territory of our empire

yet to receive our Mikado's grace

The islanders are warlike innately

It's said that they're armed to fight us

but they're a scattered bunch, nothing to be afraid of

Wait! Hold on!

Hold on!

Charge!

Hold on!

Charge!

Once disembarked at Keelung Port

we must sweep the entire island with force

We must prevent any disrespect from the people

so as to gain their wholehearted allegiance to our empire of the sun

Especially the heartland of Taiwan occupied by the tribal savages

There are ample resources of lumber and mines in the mountains

Endless treasures...

Father, last night I dreamt of a deer with white spots around its eyes...

Sisin babblers are singing an auspicious song

Go ahead and hunt the deer in your dream...

for your own wedding

Listen to me!

Dance! Let's dance!

Everyone Dance!

Come and dance, my in-law!

Come on, everyone! Let's dance!

This is my son Mouna Rudo

The bravest and strongest warrior in Mehebu Clan

He'll be an unparalleled chief

You're wise to marry your daughter to him

Dance! Let's dance!

Let's cheer for them!

Be joyful, everyone!

Hey, my old friend!

Oh no! It's him again

My old friend!

Hey, boss!

Must you wear such a big head on that small head of yours?

My old friend!

Mouna?

Seediqs from Toda - You from Tnbarah Clan, over here!

Hey, young man, don't you make trouble here

The tallest one is Mouna Rudo of Mehebu Clan from Tgdaya

You've come all the way here with so little meat for exchange?

Those of you from Toda are so shameless

Why don't you offer your hunting grounds to us for free?

Mouna Rudo, don't be too proud I'm not afraid of you

Mouna Rudo, I'm Temu Walis

I'll cut your head off when I grow up

Temu Walis?

You won't have the chance to grow up

Is that Temu Cire?

No, it's Temu Walis

I mean that grown-up man

I don't know. Not someone famous, I guess

Gather up, young men!

Come on! Bring your weapons!

Come with us! Quick!

Put these away!

Quick! All young men come with us!

Run!

Temu!

Mouna!

Mouna, he's one of our own

No one can ever run ahead of me, you hear?

Come on, Labay!

Are you alright?

Back off!

Put down your weapons! Go up there!

Hurry up!

Come on!

It's an ambush! Watch out!

Hide there! Quick!

They're up there!

Uwe! Uwe!

These intruders are out of their minds

How dare they show up at my doorstep

Retreat!

Throw them down!

Get out of here! Quick!

Hurry up!

Follow me!

I see. I see

I see

A Short Account of Taiwan

To find another route of attack

Come out, guys!

Bring your weapons!

All the human beings on this land

The gods bestow upon us a mortal life

But we are true men indeed

A true man dies in the battlefield

Stop it! It'll never be ignited

And he strides to the heavenly home of our ancestors

There lies a fertile hunting ground

- Be careful! - Over there!

That can only be guarded by a qualified true man

When he arrives at the heavenly home of our ancestors

he'll come across a beautiful rainbow bridge

The ancestors' spirits guarding it say...

"Let's take a look at your hands"

When the man opens his hands

we see bloodstains that can never be wiped clean

"Now you're a true man indeed!" says our ancestors' spirits

Stop!

"Go! Go ahead! My hero!"

"Your soul may now enter the heavenly home of our ancestors"

A man who's never decapitated an enemy or a woman who's not good at weaving

is not qualified to have their faces tattooed

the ancestors' spirits guarding it would see their clean faces and ask...

"You're not true Seediqs"

"You're not qualified to enter the heavenly home of our ancestors"

Run, Mouna!

Just go!

Rudo, are you alright?

Father!

Mouna...

you must keep the intruders away from our clan

Mouna, do you understand?

Abide by our ancestral dictations

and be a Seediq Bale (a true man)

These are all yours?

I will never!

Mouna!

Stop it!

Mouna!

Wushe, twenty-five years later

Schools, clinics, grocery stores

post offices, hotels, boardinghouses...

We've managed to civilize all the Wushe savages

It's not an easy task

Hard to imagine that this was once the most uncivilized heartland here

Carrying logs...

and walking from the lumberyard uphill to here takes them a whole day, doesn't it?

Don't worry. These savages are strong

And they're more than happy to earn some money for millet wine

No more wine for us please. We can't afford it

It's alright

This one's on me

You're indeed a beautiful serpent

Hey! It's going to rain

- Stop drinking and go home! - Good morning, sir!

Good morning, Mr. Policeman

You've worked all day long for such a mean wage

and you waste it on wine?

What else can we do with so little money?

Yeah, right! We're savages, aren't we?

We aren't supposed to know anything about saving money

Yeah, Mr. Policeman. You're Japanese, sir

You don't know how hard our lives are

Only Mr. Wu here understands us

Excuse me - Hello

I'd like some salt, please - No problem

Oh no! It's raining! Hurry up and go home, sir

Or your glorious uniform will be soaking wet

Go ahead!

Go on!

Run, sir! Your Japanese fur is too precious to spoil

Good morning

This is our policeman Hanaoka Jiro

This is our new police minister Ekawa Hakudo

Jiro is a savage too

Older sister - Older sister

Younger brother - Younger brother

Younger sister - Younger sister

Okay, one more time

Father - Father

Mother - Mother

Older brother - Older brother

Older sister...

Hurry! She's in labor!

Two savages can never give birth to a Japanese child

Are you alright, Hanako?

This job is for women only. What are you doing?

Dakis, get out of here! Get out!

Mehebu Police Station

Chief!

Pawan, why aren't you in school?

I'm sick

Sick? But you don't look like sick

Did your teacher beat you?

Chief, I hate the Japanese

Chief Mouna?

My grandpa said you were a hero when you were younger

Your grandpa said I was a hero when I was younger?

I'm still a hero. Does he know that?

Chief Mouna, will you take me along next time you go hunting?

Pawan, where is your hunting ground?

Chief Mouna!

Timber!

Hanako!

Awi!

What's wrong?

Are you alright?

What's wrong?

Are you alright?

Look what you have done!

How many times do I have to tell you that you cannot drag these logs along?

You destroyed the logs - Only the bark is scratched

The inside is still intact

You savages! How many times do I have to tell you?

What? You wanna fight?

The paths are slippery because of rain

He nearly lost his life slipping down a slope

Where is your log?

Slipped into the ravine

Do you know how expensive it is?

Pihu!

Yoshimura!

Chief Mouna...

Sir Yoshimura?

You're looking at me at such a disrespectful angle Aren't you afraid of being stabbed blind?

Who do you think you are?

You're not the boss here in Mehebu

I am!

You will not get paid today

The precious logs are destroyed

Do it again and you'll have to pay for the loss

- Keep working! - With what?

We get nothing from working for you

- What do you want us to pay with? - Pihu!

- Chief Mouna, he... - I saw it

Go home!

Yoshimura, stop picking on them

You don't know nothing

I was educating them

These damn savages!

I'll have you pay for this some day

Good morning

What? Checking out guns?

Watan Robo is getting married We've got some preparations to do

Tado? Baso?

I heard your father Mouna Rudo

has mobilized lots of men for this hunt?

Yeah, but what can we hunt in those disappearing forests?

You've about hacked down all the trees on our hunting grounds

If we don't go hunting now

we'll have nothing left once the trees are all gone

Tado Mouna!

You'd better watch your mouth!

Savages will always be savages

They have no manners at all

Wait!

Pawan?

What is the kid doing there?

Pawan!

Chief Mouna! My hunting ground is right here!

Temu Walis?

You red-foot pheasant!

Don't you know this is the Mehebu hunting ground?

Mouna! It's just a misunderstanding

This is the first time my eldest son goes hunting

I asked Temu to bring me here

Mouna, I asked Temu to teach him

Even so, you cannot trespass into our Mehebu hunting ground

This used to be our Toda hunting ground

You Mehebu clansmen robbed it from us

Rob it back if you can - Enough!

Mouna, can you do me this favor?

Kojima...

if you lived in Mehebu now, I'd do you this favor

But you live in Tnbarah Clan

Take these red-foot pheasants and get out of my hunting ground

I don't care if it's your hunting ground or theirs

because everything here belongs to us Japanese now

Temu, you just wait and see

Some day I'll destroy your Tnbarah Clan

Let's see who's killed first

I don't care if you're Mouna Rudo

Chief, the matches you wanted

Mouna! Mouna!

Bakan, why does Mouna need so many matches?

Who knows?

I've cut off the head of the Japanese Governor-general

Wow! What a party!

Sir Yoshimura

Whose wedding day is it?

It's Watan and Lubi's

Come! Have a drink with us, sir

No

No - Come on, have a drink

No way

I don't drink the wine with your nasty saliva in it

Come on, have a drink - I told you that I don't want to

Your hand is all dirty with blood

I invited you with good will - You son-of-a-bitch!

You've soiled me with blood!

- Stop! - I don't need to reason with a savage

What is it? Let's go look!

Hurry up!

I know what you said just now with a boar's head in your hand

Out of my way! Say it again in Japanese if you dare

Say it again!

- Get out of my way! - I dare you!

Tado!

Baso, kill him!

I'm holding down his feet! Beat him up!

I'm holding down his feet again!

Stop! All of you!

What is it? What the hell?

Stop! Stop! Yoshi...

Yoshimura

You're in big trouble

You have the nerve to beat me up - Let's kill him!

Shut your mouth!

Excuse us! Let us through!

I'll kill all you Mehebu clansmen

I'll kill you all

Let's do it, Father, before the Japanese kill us all

Why the hell did you provoke him when you knew he'd kill us all?

You're nothing but a bunch of hounds

that can only chase and hunt and know nothing of self-restraint

How much longer do I have to put up with you?

Out of my way!

Now you're here to bribe me with wine?

It's too late

I've filed the report on the case of you beating up a police officer

This time I'll destroy your clan

Yoshimura...

I, Mouna Rudo, come here to apologize to you personally

Stop being so arrogant

Who do you think you are?

You think you're still a chief?

You can't even control your own sons

I don't think you're qualified to be a chief anymore

Get out!

Who the hell let you in?

Get the hell out!

I don't want to see your faces again

Go home and rot!

- Hey! Why did you do that to him? - Shut up!

Yoshimura has reported Tado's case to the substation

I can't believe this Yoshimura

Chief Mouna apologized to him personally

Why did he insist on filing the case?

Yoshimura and Sugiura are not the same as Kojima after all

They will never try to understand our people

If Kojima were living in Mehebu there wouldn't be so much trouble

Since I was very little

I've always been scared of Chief Mouna

It looks as if underneath his mantle he's always gripping his machete

ready to draw it to kill anytime

He's no ordinary man

He's impossible to be tamed

It must be difficult for him to torn between the expectations of his fellow tribesmen

and the intimidation of the Japanese

Aren't we living like that as well?

We don't want to be savages

but however hard we try to dress up like the Japanese

we'll always be seen as uncivilized people

We've lived like this for 20 years

Another 20 years won't be impossible

By the time our children grow up

maybe we will have changed forever the savage image of ours

Do we still have the chance?

Mehebu Clan may be wiped out soon

Chief Mouna!

What?

Chief Mouna, can you tell me something about Japan?

I know you've been there before

They have armies, cannons, machine guns

airplanes and large steamers in Japan

I know why you're asking me this

You don't really want to know Japan

All you want is to remind me how powerful the Japanese are

Don't worry. I'll never forget

Humph! You Japanese policemen

always provoke us so much that I want to hunt your heads

Chief Mouna, I'm still a Seediq

Although I'm now a Japanese policeman

I never forget that the same blood runs in our veins

Dakis, when you die are you entering a Japanese shrine?

Or the heavenly home of our ancestors?

I heard that...

in the school for savage children you beat up our kids like the Japanese do

I beat them up because I don't want the Japanese to look down on them

You graduated from Normal School

You're more highly-educated than any other Japanese policemen

But how come you get the lowest salary?

Don't the Japanese look down on you already?

Beating up your own people makes them look down on you even more

During our stay in Japan

the Japanese knew all of us chiefs from different clans hated one another

but they made us sit together at the dining table deliberately

We were glaring at one another all the time while we were eating

intending to draw our machetes and kill

Humph! The Japanese are good at these things

Chief, is it so bad to be ruled by the Japanese?

At least we're leading a civilized life

Is it so bad to be ruled by the Japanese?

Is it so good to be ruled by them?

Our men are forced to bend over to carry logs on our backs

and our women have to kneel down to serve and pour wine

I'm a chief

but all I can do is get drunk and pretend I see nothing and hear nothing

What else can I do?

Post offices? Stores? Schools?

Do any of those things make our lives easier and better?

Instead, we're made to see how impoverished we are

Chief, can't we bear it for another 20 years?

In 20 years, there will be no Seediq and there will be no hunting ground

All our children will have turned Japanese

Chief Mouna?

- About Yoshimura... - I'm old

Don't worry

The Japanese are far too powerful

I won't go against them

Go home

This is the hunting ground that belongs to me only

Get lost

- Chief... - Get lost!

Mouna!

Father?

Mouna, the tattoos on your face are still so dark and clear

You're indeed a Seediq Bale

You're a true hero

Mouna? Look at the lines on that rock

It split into half when struck by the lightening, didn't it?

In the dim light at dusk the lightening splits a rock into half

What a beautiful sight!

Father?

I can't keep the intruders away

Ah, it's for real

Here I am

I used to guard these mountains and forests bravely

Oh yes, it's for real

Mouna, let's sing

We haven't sung together for long

Reminisce the people from the past

Here I am

I used to guard these mountains and forests bravely

These are our mountains

These are our creeks

We're the true Seediq Bale

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

Who is this man so proud?

It's your offspring

A Seediq Bale

Those Japanese are outrageous

I can't believe they beat up someone who offers them a drink

three girls from Boarung Clan were asked to serve them drinks

and they were raped

Why not to kill Yoshimura right on the spot?

Don't you remember how my family died?

My father killed only one Japanese man

and they burned my whole family alive

I was hiding in the woods watching

without even blinking my eyes

So...

that's why we can't kill only one Japanese man

We have to kill all of them to make a difference

Are you kidding me?

We wouldn't still be sitting here if we could kill them all

Now the Mehebu chief Mouna Rudo is driven to bay by that policeman from the lumberyard

and the day after tomorrow on October 27th is the big sports day

By then, all the Japanese in Wushe are going to gather in one place

Is it time already?

Father, there won't be a better chance

And we have no other choice

We can't have the Japanese look down on us anymore

We need to show them what we're made of

Let's fight them, Chief

Yeah! Let's fight them

Young men...

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?

Our ancestors shed their blood in exchange for our lives

Now we're taking our children along to the battlefield to shed blood

We're Seediq Bale, aren't we?

Temu, does your father know you're here?

My father told me that I should ask Chief Mouna

to help us youngsters get our faces tattooed

Father?

If we want revenge, it'd be the business of Mehebu Clan alone

But if we're offering a blood sacrifice to our ancestors

it will be the business of all the 12 clans in Wushe

Keep it a secret before action

We must tell none of the elders, children or women in all these clans

When did you...

I'm speaking here. Are you listening?

Keep it a secret before action

I knew Chief Mouna had a plan already

What do you know? It's your idea and your responsibility

Inform the chiefs of all the 12 clans

Tomorrow morning...

we're going to gather in Wushe

and offer a blood sacrifice

Our ancestors' spirits...

We're here for the guns. Sorry to disturb you

That old drunkard Mouna Rudo really can't take it anymore?

I'll ask the young men to get ready before they all get dead drunk

Young man, how dare you tell me these

in front of the police station!

No, I won't do it - Won't do it?

Chief Dahdo...

the chiefs of the other clans have all agreed to join us

and everything is ready now

Fighting the Japanese will lead us to death only

We've had three chiefs in our family that died of fighting the Japanese

Now we've stooped to bring you kids up

to carry on the lifeline of our people not to get killed on the battlefield

- Chief... - We're not afraid of death

Even Chief Mouna agreed to do it

Chief Dahdo, they'll laugh at us if you don't do it

They can laugh at me for all I care

I'll never allow our Gungu Clan to join the battle. Period

- But Chief... - Chief!

Are you going to be a hunter forever without guns or hunting grounds?

You have no tattoo on your face Don't forget whom you're talking to

What do we do now?

Tado, look! Only the gun barrel is left

No way

I won't allow our young clansmen to sacrifice themselves in vain with you maniacs

- But... - I won't let out this secret of yours

Bring your women and children here to our Paran Clan

to keep the bloodline of your clan

What are you doing?

Hello, sir!

Come closer

Stop fooling around! Go home and clean your places up

Yes, sir

Go on!

Sorry

Okay, ready

One, two, three

I'm not going in

Make me proud in tomorrow's games

Can you stay with us, Father?

No, I can't. I have to go back before dark

You're spending the night here Be a good boy, you hear?

See you then

Bye - Take care

Let's go!

Why did you get all our hounds to bark like crazy?

Chief Mouna, didn't you say that you wouldn't do it?

Dakis, you're nothing but a police dog wearing a collar

- Did your master send you here as a persuader? - Tado!

Dakis, you haven't answered my question from last time

When you die, are you entering a Japanese shrine or the heavenly home of our ancestors?

Are you Dakis? Or Hanaoka Ichiro?

I'm a true Seediq tribesman. I am!

- But... - If you are, take off your uniform

and offer blood sacrifice to our ancestors with us tomorrow

You know well how many soldiers the Japanese have

You're going to get killed for nothing

There are more Japanese people than the tree leaves in the forest

than the pebbles in Jhuoshuei River

But my determination to fight them is more adamant than Mt. Chilai

If your civilization wants us to cringe

I'll show you the pride of savages

The true Seediq tribesmen

Listen carefully, Dakis

A Seediq Bale can lose his body

but he fights to keep his soul at all cost

A Seediq who loses his soul

will be forsaken by our ancestors' spirits

Do you understand...

my child?

There are over 130 guns in the Wushe substation

and many boxes of ammunition too

On the sports day tomorrow

Jiro... Dakis Nawi will be on duty

I'll tell him everything beforehand

Father, will he betray us?

No, he won't

Can't believe all the gunpowder I spent years collecting will go to waste

- What is it, Pihu? - They're all cowards!

Chief, only six clans are willing to join us

A little more than 300 men in all - 300 men?

I tried so hard to persuade them

I was so incensed that I nearly drew my machete

- But they... - Take it easy

Chief...

It's quite enough to have 300. Go home quietly

Don't get caught before action - Chief...

Get out of here. All of you

Get out!

The sun...

You don't think I know what you men are up to, do you?

I'm the chief's daughter

Wherever you're going the children and I will follow

Your job is to guard this fire pan and keep the fire burning

When it's time to leave I'll take you along with me

Yamada!

♪ Do you know who I am? ♪

♪ I'm Tado Mouna, a true warrior ♪

He'll be an unparalleled chief

♪ I'm Tado Mouna, a true warrior ♪

Come on, coward - Who is it? What's going on?

Baso, what the hell?

What the hell are you doing? Are you out of your mind?

Shut up!

♪ I'm a true warrior ♪

♪ I'm a Seediq Bale, a true warrior ♪

♪ Your soul is welcome to dwell with me ♪

♪ I'll feed you with millet wine and foods ♪

♪ There's no longer hatred between us ♪

♪ When you bleed, the animosity between you and me no longer exists ♪

♪ You'll be with our ancestors' spirits ♪

♪ to watch over my people ♪

Women! Children! Why aren't you singing?

Sing!

Mouna!

My old friend!

Mouna! Chief Mouna!

Shut up!

Not you

Tanah, split your men into two teams

You lead one team along Bkasan River to annihilate all the police stations

and cut off the communication of the Japanese to the east

The other team follows me to Gungu Clan to meet up with other clans

What do we do after those police stations are annihilated?

After that? Come to Mehebu Clan for a drink

Chief Mouna!

Where are they? Aren't they here yet?

They're all here

but Chief Dahdo doesn't allow our Gungu Clan to join in the battle

Everyone's trying to convince him

Have all the police stations been annihilated?

We've burned down every one of them

I said no

Our clan is big. We must join in

Chief Dahdo...

even a boar fights back when driven to bay Why don't you understand?

I'd rather be punished by the Japanese than have our whole clan wiped out

My children, don't you remember how your fathers died?

No one from our Gungu Clan is allowed to go

Are you frightened to death by the Japanese? Or are you spoiled by them?

Chief! Chief Mouna!

You know well that we're bound to lose this battle

Why do you insist on fighting it?

Because of our ancestral spirit that's soon to be forgotten

Look at these young men

Their faces are clean without the Seediq tattoos

Do you want to see their souls forsaken by our ancestors' spirits?

Or don't you think they're qualified to be Seediq Bale with hands stained with blood?

Ancestral spirit?

Ancestral spirit!

You want to sacrifice their lives in exchange for these tattoos

but what does it take to get these young lives back?

Pride!

Let's go!

Here comes your brother. Good luck!

Good luck!

What a thick mist!

Yeah, it's often misty around here

Come on, have more hot tea. It's chilly

Thank you

We still have time for a rest

- Be careful! - I'm sorry

- Are you alright? - Yeah, thank you

Let's do it. There's no turning back

My children...

at the other end of the rainbow in the heavenly home of our ancestors

lies a fertile hunting ground

Our ancestors are all there

Only brave souls are allowed to enter

It's the one hunting ground we cannot afford to lose

Fellow tribesmen!

My fellow tribesmen! Let's hunt the heads of our enemies

We can no longer keep the hunting ground in the Wushe mountains

Let's wash our souls clean with blood

Stride over the rainbow to our eternal hunting ground

We're offering a blood sacrifice to our ancestors

Young men, let our ancestors' spirits be possessed in your blades

Entrust your hatred to the clouds and mists

Let's do it

Be still! How many times do I have to tell you?

Go to the back of the line!

No, it's not what you think

Hello?

Really?

- How fair-spoken you are! - No, you're too kind

Hatsuko!

What the hell! Lower you voice

Hanaoka? It's your shift at the ammunition storage

Hello

It's Ichiro!

This way please - Thank you

It's spectacular

All rise!

Be quiet!

Sing the national anthem

Our Mikado rules the world

For generations to come

Like sands accumulating to rocks

Get him!

Stop!

What's going on?

Keep playing! Come on!

Sing! Keep singing!

Keep singing!

Play it!

Keep singing!

Like sands accumulating to rocks

Get him!

Here comes the blood sacrifice!

Come on!

Run! Come on!

Hatsuko! Hatsuko!

Hatsuko!

Come on! Unlock the storage The savages are hunting heads

Hanaoka!

Unlock that one too!

Chief Mouna, my wife Obing is still dressed in kimono

Shut up! Open the door!

Run for your lives!

I'm a descendant from a samurai as well

- Mr. Satsuka! - Come on!

Mr. Satsuka!

Hide in there! Be quiet!

Hush! Be quiet!

Aren't you a savage too? Why are you hiding with us?

We're offering blood sacrifice What are you daydreaming for?

Follow me!

Pawan!

Damned Japanese! I'll make you weep!

Come with me!

♪ Oh, my children, I know ♪

♪ In those passionate days ♪

♪ You've learned a song ♪

♪ To sing for the soon-be-forgotten ancestral spirit ♪

What on earth are you doing, my children?

♪ But my children! ♪

♪ Your hatred darkens the heaven and the earth ♪

Go to the school right now to save your daughter Obing

♪ Oh, see how the stars are dimming ♪

Didn't we agree not to kill the Hans?

You'd better stay sober today!

♪ The sound drifting down from the forest ♪

♪ Is it the sigh of our ancestors' spirits? ♪

♪ Or is it the sigh of the wind? ♪

♪ Oh, my children! ♪

♪ Look! The world keeps shivering ♪

♪ Look! The reddened earth is silent ♪

♪ Look! The bark of Pusu Qhuni is peeling off ♪

Get up!

This way!

I really can't run anymore!

♪ Touch your bloodstained hands ♪

I don't want to die here!

Tado, don't shoot!

Temu, you'd do anything to become a hero, huh?

♪ Can they still hold the sand from our hunting grounds? ♪

Where's the other one?

♪ Oh, my children! Do you know? ♪

♪ Time is light as a flame ♪

♪ Time is light as a flame ♪

♪ Time is light as a flame ♪

- Obing! - Jiro!

- Obing! - I'm in here!

- Obing! - Help me!

Father!

Why must you hunt heads?

♪ Oh, my children! Do you know? ♪

♪ How much pain do you swallow to sing the song of our ancestral spirit? ♪

♪ How much shame do you swallow to speak what you want to say? ♪

♪ 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? ♪

Make a phone call!

The Wushe savages are massacring the Japanese

- Make a phone call! - What happened?

- Hurry! - How did it come to this?

- Hurry up and call! - What happened?

- What the hell? - The Wushe savages have revolted

The Wushe savages have revolted

Hurry up and call!

Yes?

What?

The Wushe savages are massacring the Japanese?

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

Takun, what are you doing?

Takun!

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!

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 machine guns 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?

Take it easy! There's more!

Hurry up!

Father, why did you give up Hakaw Supeitei?

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

They 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...

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

My children...

don't be afraid

Every one of you is a Seediq Bale

Our ancestors' spirits know we're good warriors guarding our hunting grounds

The blood stains on your hands can prove it

Remember...

let's cross the rainbow bridge together

Attack!

Officer Goto!

What the hell are these savages up to?

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

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!

Give birth to your child in Paran Clan - Jiro! I want to stay with you!

I don't want to go there, Auntie!

I don't want to go there! I want to stay with you!

They're all pregnant

The Japanese won't harm them

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

This is nothing but animal-like savagery

Once the rain stops, we'll besiege them immediately

Yes, sir!

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 anymore?

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

Chief, are we going for the decisive battle tomorrow?

Ah, it hurts!

Chief, the wounds are still fresh

Pawan, you're not a child anymore

Chief, can we fight the decisive battle now?

What's happening?

Give me the gun!

Let's go!

Stop! The savages!

Over there!

What the hell?

Fire!

Retreat! All retreat!

- Seek covers! - Down there!

Quite slippery here

Are you alright?

Halt, everyone!

Jump!

Retreat downhill! Hide!

Out of the way!

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 machine guns

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 machine gun 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!

Fire!

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!

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!

With thousands of soldiers and all kinds of powerful weapons

and you ended up being toyed with by 300 savages?

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

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?

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!

Out of the way!

Don't stop! Run!

Shoot! Shoot him!

- A Seediq from Tgdaya! - Where?

He's over there!

Burn it down!

Temu!

Come on! Run!

Let me help you, Awi

I'm ready

Let go, my brother

Pihu Walis...

- Don't go! - Let go!

I'm in great pain

Don't go

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 anymore

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

I'm not fighting anymore! 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!

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

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

Gather up!

Gather up, First Team!

Gather up!

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!

Stop!

Everybody, stop!

Where are you?

Okubo!

Someone's there!

- Where? - In that tree!

Get down!

- Get down! - Hide!

Machine guns?

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!

Get in! Come on!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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

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

On October 27, 1930

The Seediq tribe of Taiwan's mountain region burst into large-scale revolt

Of the 1,236 people of the six tribes that took up arms

less than 300 survived after 50 days of battle

The few surviving tribesmen were forced to relocate to a compound along Peikang River

where the Japanese could monitor them easily

As of today, they have never returned to their homeland

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

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

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