The Bird People in China (中国の鳥人, Chūgoku no chōjin) is a 1998 Japanese comedy-drama film directed by Takashi Miike from a screenplay by his frequent collaborator Masa Nakamura.

When Mr. Okamura is hospitalized for a hernia, a young Japanese businessman named Mr. Wada is sent as his replacement to assess a vein of jade in a remote village in Yunnan, China.

They encounter a woman with blue eyes who teaches a school for flying as bird people based on diagrams in documents left by her grandfather, a Royal Air Force pilot who crashed near the village many years earlier.

He kills the tortoises being used to pull their raft, then threatens to shoot Mr. Wada, Mr. Shen, and the ferryman in order to prevent modern civilization from exploiting the village.

Chinese locations in the movie include Dali City, Yunnan, where the characters enter through a stone arched gate and the Nujiang River, where they see people riding pulleys on steel cables over the water.