Seediq Bale (Warriors of the Rainbow)

[Drunk Monk]

Excellent ultravi. A native Taiwanese tribe fights off Japanese invaders - barefoot machete & bows vs. machine guns, grenades & biplanes. This is a great jungle warfare flick. The tribe are headhunters so there are a lot of decapitations. It's almost 3 hours long and I never lost interest. There's a story too, with complex characters even, and it's not at all distracting from the fight scenes - quite the opposite really. There are themes of traditional warrior codes, native cultures, rascism/culturalism, modernization, honorable deaths, transition to manhood, and did I mention there were lots of decapitations? Sword fights? Hell yeah, machete vs. gunto. Could have used a Bollywood dance number at the end, but otherwise, a perfect dose of the ol ultravi - goes great w/some moloko+.