The Birdman of China
Takashi Miike
Masahiro Motoki, Renji Ishibashi, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu, Wang Lili, Tomohiko Okuda, Xu Guanghui, Koichi Minato, Michiko Shimizu
1998
Japan
Completed
Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, English
118 minutes
Detailed introduction
This film (drama)Also known as中国の鳥人，is aJapanProducerwomen sex，At1998Released in year
。The dialogue language isJapanese, Mandarin Chinese, English，Current Douban rating7.5(For reference only)。
A junior employee at a jewelry company, Watanabe (played by Masahiro Motoki), takes on the task of traveling to Yunnan, China, to search for jade mines due to a colleague's hospitalization. He is accompanied by a translator, Mr. Shen (played by Mako Iwamatsu), and a gangster boss, Ushiie (played by Renji Ishibashi). Ushiie has a rough personality and a bad temper, living a life on the edge, and is sent by his organization to supervise Watanabe's work. This strange trio journeys to Yunnan, encountering many peculiar characters and stories along the way. Upon reaching the deep mountains, they discover a legendary tribe of birdmen. The ancestors of this birdman tribe seemed to have the ability to soar with the winds, a legend that has long been forgotten...