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The Foolish Bird
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The Foolish Bird

Jun 30, 2017
1h 56m
★ 7.0

Overview

Lynn lives with her grandparents in Meicheng, a small Hunanese city unsettled by an ongoing rape-murder investigation. With little structure to regulate her life outside of school, where she is bullied, Lynn begins smuggling and reselling confiscated mobile phones with her friend, which leads to encounters with the city’s seedier inhabitants.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Yellow-Green Pi
Coolie Films Corporation

Cast

Yao Honggui

Lynn Lin

Yao Honggui

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Dawei

Liqiao Xiao

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May

Fang Yao

Huang Ji

Huang Ji

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Lynn's Grandfather

Huang Zifan

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Lynn's Grandmother

Yan Shixiang

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Lynn's Mother

Liu Xiaoling

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Lynn's Teacher

Wei Xincai

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Hair Salon Boss

Huang Weiliang

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Mannie

Wang Manling

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Fatty

Liu Yang

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Peng Na

Peng Na

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