The Bird People in China

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William D I came close to recommending this one, but I just can't quite get there. Most of the film is rather charming - not an adjective usually used for Miike's films - but the story started to take itself too seriously and dragged a bit towards the end. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/27/23 Full Review roberta r hard to find but worth it. beautiful, funny, meaningful, what cinema should be Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member This is one of the older Takashi Miike films that I've always heard good things about, but hadn't been able to track down until pretty recently. I can say that it was worth the wait, a more thoughtful film in the midst of his period of excesses and violence at the time. The film is an interesting journey of two men from the city venturing into the countryside and finding their own forms of absolution there, and I would recommend checking it out. Give it a rental at the very least. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Didn't really work for me. I found the first half pretty annoying, with bad pratfalls and dumb jokes, and the second, apparently more, uh, "lyrical" (ugh) half to be a bit cloying and sentimental, especially towards the end. Maybe it's because I only recently saw Aguirre, but I felt like the amazing setting wasn't utilised very well, with Miike's go-to conflict contrivance of a violent Yakuza feeling completely out of place. These complaints aside, I didn't outright hate it, but it never managed to draw me in. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie breaks the rules, as Miike usually does. It's beautiful and well constructed with a thick plot. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Something fresh from Visitor Q and Ichi the Killer director Takashi Miike. This is an enjoyable comedic art house drama with little to none of his trademark gore/disturbing scenes. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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