It is about time … that’s all you can say. Long ago it became a futile exercise to try
and figure out why some films arrive swiftly — in an orderly manner, of course
— on DVD and Blu-ray, while others go into the great abyss.
When a foreign language film grosses $1.4 million in
the domestic market, that’s a prime candidate for DVD, but writer/director Hu
Guan’s mega-hit action film, Mr. Six —
which was released theatrically in 2015 — just disappeared, despite taking in a
whopping $139.2 million worldwide.
Well, there is good news this week as Bayview
Entertainment has acquired domestic distribution rights to Mr. Six and
will be bringing the Beijing street-gang thriller to DVD on May 5.
Get this, the ARR works out to an eye-popping 1,593
days.
You knew that Mr. Six was
an important film when its debut took place in competition at the Venice Film
Festival in September of 2015 and then quickly followed with the Toronto
International Film Festival later in the same month.
In addition to working the festival circuit, where
it piled up an impressive collection of awards, Hu Guan’s thriller was released
to the general public and Chinese audiences made it an end-of-the-year box
office sensation.
As to story itself, the title character, “Mr. Six,”
Liu Ye (played by Feng Xiaogang — Ash Is Purest White, Let the Bullets
Fly), is a “retired” street thug who now passes
his days running the equivalent of a Beijing “bodega.” He misses the good old days, but misses his
son, Xiaobo (Li Yifeng — Animal World),
even more.
This all changes when Xiaobo is abducted by a gang
of young street-racing punks lead by Xiao Fei (Kris Wu — Sweet
Sixteen, xXx: Return of Xander Cage, Valerian and the City of a Thousand
Planets). He got caught fooling around with their Fei’s
hot chick girlfriend and doing the unthinkable, scratching the door of his
luxury import. His father tries to
reason with them, but they blow him off … no respect.
That, of course, means war and Mr. Six sends word to
his old crew that he needs their help … old school vs. the new breed on the
streets of Beijing!!
Mr. Six is
presented in Mandarin with English subtitles.
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