Brother (2001)
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
Studio Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Release Date 2001
Country USA
Language English
Audience Rating R
Running Time 113 mins
Format DVD
Color Color
IMDb Rating 7.1
Cast
Omar Epps Denny
Beat Takeshi
Claude Maki
Takeshi Kitano Aniki Yamamoto
Kuroudo Maki Ken
Masaya Kato Shirase
Susumu Terajima Kato
Royale Watkins Jay
Lombardo Boyar Mo
Ren Osugi Harada
Ryo Ishibashi Ishihara
James Shigeta Sugimoto
Crew
Director Takeshi Kitano
Writer Takeshi Kitano
Producer Jeremy Thomas
Producer Masayuki Mori
Producer Ann Carli
Producer Shinji Komiya
Plot
The one guy you trust to get your back when the whole city's trying to put a bullet in it.

After being exiled from Tokyo, a yakuza gangster (Takeshii "Beat" Kitano, Fireworks [Hana-Bi], Sonatine) arrives in Los Angeles with a big bag of money and a really bad attitude. He hooks up with his half-brother, the leader of small-time drug ring, and together with a local street hustler (Omar Epps, Love and the Basketball), the brothers declare war on the other local drug traffickers, and igniting the bloodiest and dirtiest power struggle the mean streets of L.A. have ever seen.
Personal Details
Rating
Collection Status In Collection
Links DVD Empire
IMDB
Edition Details
Format DVD
Region Region 1
Release Country USA
TV System NTSC
No. of Disks/Tapes 1
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Widescreen 1.85:1 (Anamorphic)
Subtitles English; French; Spanish
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround
JAPANESE: Dolby Digital 5.1
Layers Single Side, Single Layer
Release Date 02-01-2002