The Bird People in China

The children of the sky.

7.219981h 58mReleased
Adventure
Drama
Comedy

Overview

Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada encounters a violent, yet sentimental, yakuza, who takes the liberty of joining his adventure through China. Led on their long and disastrous journey to the mine by Shen, the three men come across something even more magical and enticing.

StatusReleased
Release Date1998-06-10
Runtime1h 58m
Languages日本語普通话English
CountriesJapan

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The Bird People in China trailer (1998)

Reviews

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badelf

Dec 4, 2023

9/10

What a delightful and complete surprise coming out of Takashi Miike! The first part of the movie is hilarious. I was thinking it would look like this if Herzog and Kinski were accidentally cast as the two protagonists in a Takashi Yakuza movie! At the end, I decided that this film is very Fellini-esque. Sure, there's the obvious capitalist vs Na

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