

The Bird People in China
The children of the sky.
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.
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- Japanese
- based on novel or book
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United StatesUS
- Theatrical20 May 1999
FranceFR
- Physical16 Nov 2004
JapanJP
- Theatrical10 Jun 1998
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The Bird People in China was released on 10 June 1998.
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1- B9/10
badelf
12/4/2023
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 …
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