In this unusually fight-skittish action-movie scenario, Chinese director Feng Xiaogang plays a reformed criminal struck by how much the codes of behavior have changed when his son is kidnapped. Though ...

Mr. Six is a grumpy, old fixture on his Beijing back street, ready to scold or shoot a withering look. But as we are frequently reminded in director Guan Hu’s character study “Mr. Six,” he was one bad ...

Honor among thieves is a thing of the past in the new China, where cash trumps respect. By THR Staff Flying the flag in prestige slots at Venice and Toronto, Guan Hu’s Mr. Six (Lao Pao Er) is China’s ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Chinese director Guan Hu's Mr Six is a comic, elegiac film that never settles into one particular genre or mood. Its central character ...

I still don’t know who Mr. Six is. I went to Six Flags Great America on Friday with high hopes of using some investigative journalism skills to answer the question half of America’s been asking: Who ...

One R. L. Six, an unidentified foreigner, presumably a missionary, accompanied four friends to Luchowfu, Anhwei Province, to see the native religious festival in honor of the Goddess of Mercy. Amid a ...

“Kids these days,” sighs the lead character in “Mr. Six,” sounding like the grizzled hero in a late-career Clint Eastwood movie. Now well into his fifties, the neighborhood peacekeeper — played with ...