Brother (2000)

Directed by Takeshi Kitano

Running Time: 114 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 2000

Rating: 18 Certificate

Production Country: USA/UK

Filmed in Colour

When Yakuza gangster Yamamoto (Takeshi Kitano) is forcibly retired from his clan after a hostile takeover, he flies from Tokyo to Los Angeles to find his younger half brother Ken (Kuroudo Maki), whom he believes he has been financing through college.

When he finds that Ken has dropped out of school to run a sloppy drug-dealing operation with his buddy Denny (Omar Epps), Yamamoto slaps him on the back of the head in disgust, then shows the motley crew how to take over the LA underworld, Yakuza style.

In the most violent ways imaginable, Yamamoto transforms the ragtag gang into a styling posse of professional punishers and schools them in a kamikaze code of honor that puts all other forms of gang bonding to shame.

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Cast

	Takeshi Kitano		Aniki Yamamoto
	Omar Epps		Denny
	Kuroudo Maki		Ken
	Masaya Kato		Shirase
	Susumu Terajima		Kato
	Royale Watkins		Jay
	Lombardo Boyar		Mo
	Ren Osugi		Harada
	Ryo Ishibashi		Ishihara
	James Shigeta		Sugimoto
	Tatyana Ali		Latifa
	Makoto Otake		Chief of Police
	Kouen Okumura		Hanaoka
	Naomasa Musaka		Hisamatsu
	Rino Katase		Night Club Madame