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BROTHER

Format DVD

Producer Masayuki Mori, Jeremy Thomas

Language English\Japanese

Release Year 2003

Actor James Shigeta, Susumu Terajima, Kuroudo Maki, Ren Osugi, 'beat' Takeshi Kitano, Omar Epps, Tatyana M. Ali, Masaya Kato

Director beat' Takeshi Kitano

Features Widescreen, Closed Caption, Theatrical Trailer\Featurette\On Location\Cast And Crew Interviews\Scenes By The Sea\The Life And Cinema Of Beat Takeshi Kitano

Run Time 108 Mins

Genre

Thriller, General

Film/TV Title

Brother

Aspect Ratio

16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

About this product

Product Information

Yamamoto, a Yakuza ganster who is forced out of his own country, travels to America to find his brother Ken. Whilst there he meets up with Denny, a hustler and together they set out to make Ken's crime syndicate the post powerful gang in Los Angeles...

Product Identifiers EAN 5014138291143

Producer

Masayuki Mori, Jeremy Thomas

Product Key Features

Actor

James Shigeta, Susumu Terajima, Kuroudo Maki, Ren Osugi, 'beat' Takeshi Kitano, Omar Epps, Tatyana M. Ali, Masaya Kato

Widescreen, Closed Caption, Theatrical Trailer\Featurette\On Location\Cast And Crew Interviews\Scenes By The Sea\The Life And Cinema Of Beat Takeshi Kitano

Genre Thriller, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs 1

Certificate 18

Hearing Impaired English

Composer Joe Hisaishi

Reviews

Premiere - ...[Kitano] returns to more familiar form with a vengeance..., Hollywood Reporter - ...The supporting, mostly Japanese cast is effective, particularly Kato..., Sight and Sound - ...BROTHER boldly juxtaposes images of geographical displacement and transience with underlying themes of cultural permanence and immutability..., Total Film - ...Tense, edgy and compulsively unpredictable....This is Kitano's GODFATHER..., New York Times - ...Mr. Kitano's scenes with Mr. Epps have an intriguing give-and-take...

Additional Information

In his first film shot in the United States, Japanese director Takeshi Kitano stars as Aniki, a stoic "yakuza" (the Japanese version of the Mafia) who heads to Los Angeles after his clan loses a mob war. Unable to speak English, he still manages to take control of his little brother's small-time gang of drug dealers and quickly moves them up the criminal ladder by impassively blasting all their higher-ups and imparting an Eastern sense of honor to the new "family." Between the ritual suicides, tortures, self-mutilations, and blood-soaked gun battles, Aniki forms a special bond with black gang member Denny (Omar Epps), who teaches him some English slang in exchange for guidance. As with Kitano's previous films such as FIREWORKS, VIOLENT COP, and SONATINE, an overall sense of Zen stillness contrasts with sudden macho eruptions into violence. The film takes a uniquely Japanese look at the male psyche, which makes it nicely comparable to the works of Takeshi's American counterparts like Peckinpah, Tarantino, and Abel Ferrara. Offbeat and strangely subdued, BROTHER still delivers all the desired gangster goods and should make new Takeshi fans out of anyone who has seen SCARFACE or THE GODFATHER.

Screenwriter

'Beat' Takeshi Kitano

Sound source

Dolby Digital 5.1

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