The Foolish Bird

The Foolish Bird

2017•1h 56m•7.0/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.0/10(4)

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.

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Production

Yellow-Green Pi, Coolie Films Corporation

Language

ZH

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Yao Honggui

Yao Honggui

Lynn Lin

Liqiao Xiao

Dawei

Fang Yao

May

Huang Ji

Huang Ji

Huang Zifan

Lynn's Grandfather

Yan Shixiang

Lynn's Grandmother

Liu Xiaoling

Lynn's Mother

Wei Xincai

Lynn's Teacher

Huang Weiliang

Hair Salon Boss

Wang Manling

Mannie

Liu Yang

Fatty

Peng Na

Peng Na

Li Tenghui

E Mart Boss

Liu Wenmao

Dawei's Father

Mo Jiajian

Teacher Mo

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