The Bird People in China (1998)

★ 7.2 1h 58m 88 votes IMDb
Comedy Drama Adventure

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 Bird People in China

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Masahiro Motoki
Masahiro Motoki as Wada Age 60 Masahiro Motoki (本木雅弘 Motoki Masahiro, born December 21, 1965 in Okegawa, Japan) is a Japanese actor. He portrayed protagonist Daigo Kobayashi in Departures, which won the 81st Academy Awards for Best...
Renji Ishibashi
Renji Ishibashi as Ujiie Age 84 · Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Mako
Mako as Shen Died 2006 · Kobe, Japan Mako was born in Kobe, Japan, the son of noted children's book author and illustrator Taro Yashima. His parents moved to the United States when he was a small child. He joined them there after World W...
Yūichi Minato
Yūichi Minato Died 2019 · Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan Actor..
Manzo Shinra
Manzo Shinra Age 66 · Oita Prefecture, Japan Manzo Shinra (森羅 万象, Shinra Manzō, born May 20, 1959) is a Japanese actor and narrator from Oita prefecture. He has appeared mainly in films, V-cinema, and pink films. He has also appeared in many fil...
Director Takashi Miike
Cast Masahiro Motoki, Renji Ishibashi, Mako, Li Li Wang, Yūichi Minato, Tomohiko Okuda, Manzo Shinra, Michiko Kichise

Audience Reviews

badelf 9/10 Dec 04, 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 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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