One of the most extraordinary films from an extraordinary director, The Bird People in China employs a magical realism to explore human yearning & frustration. We're taken on a journey, with a Japanese 'salary-man' and a Yakuza debt-collector, of investigation into a jade mine, which leads to a search for the 'bird people' but ultimately becomes a voyage of ideological discovery of modern man. Scenically stunning cinema that never wants for pace, Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer) again turns his comic vision towards the only truly overwhelming adventure... the hunt for meaning.