Synopsis
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.
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Cast
- Takeshi KitanoAniki Yamamoto
- Omar EppsDenny
- Claude MakiKen
- Susumu TerajimaKato
- Masaya KatoShirase
- Royale WatkinsJay
- Lombardo BoyarMo
- Ryo IshibashiIshihara
- James ShigetaSugimoto
- Tatyana AliLatifa
Recommendations
- 80
Village Voice
If nothing else, Brother confirms Kitano's stature as the most original purveyor of on-screen mayhem since Sam Peckinpah. - 70
The New York Times
Mr. Kitano directed, edited and wrote Brother -- and his style of close-to-the-vest brutality travels extremely well. - 70
L.A. Weekly
Brother is a solid return to gangster form for Kitano, who knows how to transcend the most overly familiar genre clichés without betraying the rules of engagement. - 70
Chicago Reader
A wizard at manipulating time, Kitano introduces staccato elements that interrupt the meditative pace even as they help set it. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
Delivers some powerful emotional wallops alongside the chopsticks-up-the-nose violence, and manages the remarkable feat of making venerable American genre conventions seem eerily alien. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
Enough odd twists to be mildly interesting. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
A typical Kitano film in many ways, but not one of his best ones. Too many of the killing scenes have a casual, perfunctory tone. - 38
New York Post
Takeshi's elliptical directorial style here is overwhelmed by the script's crudeness and lack of narrative power.
