Brother
is a 2000 crime film starring, written, directed, and edited by Takeshi Kitano. The film premiered on September 7, 2000 at the Venice Film Festival. The plot centers on a mature yakuza gangster who has to flee to America, where he unites forces with his little brother and his brother’s gang in Los Angeles.
Plot
Yamamoto (Takeshi Kitano) is a brutal and experienced yakuza enforcer whose boss was killed and whose clan was defeated in a criminal war with a rival family. Surviving clan members have few options: either to join the winners, reconciling with shame and distrust, or to die by committing seppuku. Yamamoto, however, decides to escape to Los Angeles along with his associate Kato (Susumu Terajima). There he finds his estranged half-brother Ken (Claude Maki), who runs a small-time drug business together with his local African-American friends. At the first meeting, Yamamoto badly hurts one of them, Denny (Omar Epps), for an attempt to scam him. Later, Denny becomes one of the Yamamoto's closest friends and associates.
More details
| author | Takeshi Kitano |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | United States of America |
| director | Takeshi Kitano |
| editor | Takeshi Kitano |
| genre | crime thriller |
| keywords | estrange hunt kill little tokyo los angeles masaya kato meet one by one seppuku survive think |
| musicBy | Joe Hisaishi |
| producer | Jeremy Thomas Masayuki Mori |
| productionCompany | Recorded Picture Company |
| publisher | BAC Films Film4 Productions Shochiku Co., Ltd. Sony Pictures Classics |
| theme | gangster independent japanese yakuza |