The Bird People in China (1998) on Netflix
TV-PG19981h 58mAdventureComedyDrama
Mr. Wada is sent from Japan to Yunnan, China, to look into a jade vein for his company. A yakuza, Ujiie, forces his way onto the trip, and Mr. Shen guides them.
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Mr. Okamura is in the hospital with a hernia, so Mr. Wada takes his place and travels to a far-off village in Yunnan, China, to judge what a jade vein there is worth. Mr. Shen, a Chinese guide who knows some Japanese though almost no English, comes with him. Ujiie is a yakuza who tells Mr. Wada that the company owes his organization money, and he comes along so the debt can be settled in gemstones. The group also meets a Japanese researcher who has collected carvings of bird people across Japan and thinks Yunnan is where Japanese culture began. A storm strips them of their bags and their papers.
