The Bird People in China

1998

AdventureDrama

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.

"The children of the sky."

Rating

7.186
86 votes

Popularity

0.7331

Origin & Countries

JP | ja | Japan

Production

Excellent Film,Sedic

Runtime

118 min.

Status

Released

Release: 6/10/1998

Credits

The Bird People in China

Takashi MiikeDirector

The Bird People in China

Masahiro MotokiWada

The Bird People in China

Renji IshibashiUjiie

The Bird People in China

MakoShen

The Bird People in China

Li Li WangSi-chang Yan

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Reviews

badelf

12/4/2023

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 Nature struggle on the surface. But the story has something much deeper to say and it's been captured well by this team. And very much like Fellini, it's a deep look into human personal Weltanschauung.

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