Brother (2001) (R)
synopsis
When Yakuza gangster Yamamoto is forcibly retired from his clan after a hostile takeover, he flies from Tokyo to Los Angeles to find his younger half brother Ken, 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 Danny, 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.
details
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1 hr. 47 min.
Opened January 19th, 2001
MovieGoer Review
You can take the guy out of the yakuza but you can't take the yakuza out of the guy, as this movie about a Japanese gangster in America proves.
Story
Hardened bad guy Yamamoto (Beat Takeshi, who also wrote and directed... MORE
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synopsis
When Yakuza gangster Yamamoto is forcibly retired from his clan after a hostile takeover, he flies from Tokyo to Los Angeles to find his younger half brother Ken, 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 Danny, 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.
details
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1 hr. 47 min.
Opened January 19th, 2001
MovieGoer Review
You can take the guy out of the yakuza but you can't take the yakuza out of the guy, as this movie about a Japanese gangster in America proves.
Story
Hardened bad guy Yamamoto (Beat Takeshi, who also wrote and directed... MORE
