"Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale"

[survivingIncelMan]

has anyone seen this movie?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53QsTkZMV1A

Its a famous Taiwannese movie, easily the most violent movie I have ever seen. The plot of the movie is based on the true events during WWII, during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, and the uprising of the Seediq aboriginals against Japanese Colonialism.

The story starts during the period where the last Imperial Dynasty of China, the Qing dynasty signed over the sovereignty over Taiwan to Japan, the Japanese started to aggressively acculturating the natives, bringing peace among the warring native peoples. However, the Seediq people have a religious belief that is shockingly similar to that of Vikings.

The men must behead an enemy to be considered a true man, where he will receive tattoo on his face. Then he can marry and have children. In the afterlife, the ancestors will grant him passage, across a rainbow bridge, to their sacred hunting ground where game will never run out. A man who never beheaded an enemy is considered juvenile and will never be granted the hunting ground in the afterlife.

So when Japanese started to acculturate the people, bringing in modern technology and life style. The younger generation are now speaking Japanese. the tribes can no long hunt heads, the future generation continued to remain juvenile in their culture. One generate later, there might never be an more seediq people left, and the culture will die. This is one of the main motivator for the Seediq uprising.

Were the Japanese right for bringing civilization to the "savages"? or should we lament at the destruction of indigenous Seediq culture due to colonialism?