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Writer:
Takeshi Kitano (written by)
Release Date:
24 November 2000 (Italy)
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Tagline:
The one guy you trust to get your back when a whole city's trying to put a bullet in it. more
Plot:
A Japanese Yakuza gangster is exiled to the United States. Takeshi settles in Los Angeles where his younger...
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1 win
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(From IFC. 4 November 2009, 11:14 AM, PST)
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Lyrical genius in love with savage violence?
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Takeshi Kitano | ... | Aniki Yamamoto (as 'Beat' Takeshi) |
 | Omar Epps | ... | Denny |
 | Kurôdo Maki | ... | Ken (as Claude Maki) |
| Masaya Katô | ... | Shirase |
| Susumu Terajima | ... | Kato |
| Royale Watkins | ... | Jay |
 | Lombardo Boyar | ... | Mo |
| Ren Ôsugi | ... | Harada |
 | Ryo Ishibashi | ... | Ishihara |
| James Shigeta | ... | Sugimoto |
 | Tatyana Ali | ... | Latifa |
| Makoto Ôtake | ... | Chief of Police |
| Kouen Okumura | ... | Hanaoka |
| Naomasa Musaka | ... | Hisamatsu |
| Rino Katase | ... | Night Club Madame |
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MPAA:
Rated R for pervasive strong violence, language and brief nudity.
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Runtime:
114 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:16 |
France:-16 |
Canada:16+ (Quebec) |
Portugal:M/16 |
Italy:T |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:R |
Finland:K-18 |
Germany:18 |
Hong Kong:III |
Japan:R-15 |
Netherlands:16 |
New Zealand:R18 |
Norway:18 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:18 |
USA:R (cut) |
Singapore:M18 (DVD rating) |
Singapore:R(A)
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The dead bodies found in the headquarters (toward the end of the film) are arranged in the Japanese symbol (kanji) for "death".
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Continuity: Ken takes the photo of the potential blackmail victim with his right hand while his left hand is on the table. In the close-up he's holding it with both hands, and then he returns the picture with his right hand while his left hand is on the table again.
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Casta Diva che inargenti
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"Brother" makes the "Godfather" trilogy look like a kindergarten Christmas production. Kitano is definitely glorifying gratuitous violence, I am sorry to say it but it's true. He's smart and chic enough to know that he could be making wonderfully poetic films for the artsy crowd but perhaps he wants to offend on purpose. However, he ends up making beautifully directed odes to brutality in which japanese contemporary society appears only as backdrop against the vicious and callous homicidal maniacs obssessed with serial killing. Here, Kitano ,expatriated in LA, quickly manages to practically wipe off entire Cholo (Chicano) mob population: dozens of bodies mowed left and right with an aide from three inept street hustlers (one of whom is his americanized half-brother)... Of course, "Brother" does have Kitano's trademark scenes even if not nearly as elaborate as those in "Sonatine" or "Fireworks": a brief long-shot scene at the beach and a GREAT roof scene with the paper airplane...LOOK, OF COURSE, FOR SOME CHOPPED FINGERS ETC.
I am perhaps rambling a little. It shows you how ambivalent my feelings about Kitano in fact are. On one hand I like him a lot and consider him a rarely gifted film maker. In fact, one of the finest. On the other hand I deeply deplore his basic premises: death and misogyny. I can't make up my mind. I keep wanting to stay away from his films and I end up seeing them one after another. A strange experience for me.