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VHS : Brother (2000) (Dts)In association with Amazon.com List Price: $9.95 Price: $2.75 You Save: $7.20 (72%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780767866071 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 076786607X Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Release Date: June 04, 2002 Running Time: 114 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: 2000 Sales Rank: 60042 Related Items: Editorial Review: Amazon.com: It's hard to describe the hypnotic authority of director and actor Takeshi Kitano. In his first American venture, Brother, Kitano plays a yakuza who's been exiled from Japan after the death of his boss. In Los Angeles, he discovers that his half-brother has become a small-time hood. Kitano quickly takes over, casually setting in motion gang wars and killing sprees. But a basketball game gets as much emphasis as an assassination; Kitano's camera watches a dead body lit up by the flash of gunshots, completely ignoring the shootout that's causing the light. Yet his movies don't seem arty, just efficient--and effective: you may not know whether to laugh or flinch, but you will not stop watching. As an actor, Kitano slouches, twitches, and stares blankly--but you won't stop watching him either. If you like Brother, check out Fireworks and Sonatine; gangsters will never seem the same. --Bret Fetzer Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Pretty good film given a lackluster DVDWhile in no way Takeshi Kitano's best film, it is definitely an entertaining one. Kitano plays a Yakuza gangster forced to leave Japan for the U.S., where he unleashes just as much carnage as he did in his own homeland. The acting on the end of the Japanese actors is great on all counts. The English speaking actors don't fare as well and I don't think it could be attributed to inexperience as much as it would the language barrier. Still, it's definitely worth watching as it is pretty ... Read More Rating: - A Japanese gangster in LAIts hard to put a finger on exactly what went wrong with "Brother." Takeshi Kitano is an immensely talented film director and actor, but i suppose even he has to miss the mark sometimes. The story has potential. An exiled yakuza goes to his half-brother in Los Angeles after finding himself on the wrong side of a gang war in Japan. There, he does what he knows best and begins forging a rag-tag collection of petty thugs and drug dealers into a professional gang, finally feeling big enough ... Read More Rating:  - Beat Takeshi: Paragon of cool.Brother (Takeshi Kitano, 2000) When I see a film that has both the names Ren Osugi and Ryo Ishibashi in the credits at the video store, I know I'm in for a good time. Brother did not disappoint. Kitano does what so few foreign directors manage to do: come to Hollywood and make a good movie despite having to work within the strictures of the MPAA. That said, the DVD release is, of course, unrated; it makes me wonder what on earth the MPAA found so objectionable that the film would ... Read More Rating: - The coolest man on EarthKitano's first (and only) feature film foray into English language territory, BROTHER may be Kitano at his simplest, but most certainly at his coolest - since Hana Bi, anyway. Kitano plays a disgraced Yakuza foot soldier whose extreme behaviour sees him exiled in the US, where his younger brother lives. Kitano starts his new life exactly where his old life left of - with extreme violence. This is Kitano at the height of his self-destructive performances. Separated from his "family", ... Read More Rating:  - A great movie - beyond just violenceBeat Takeshi provides another violent movie, whose purpose seems to be that violence begets violence, and ultimately it's a dead end. The basic plot has Takeshi playing a yakuza forced to leave Japan upon the death of his boss. He finds his half brother in LA pushing drugs rather than attending school. Takeshi violently turns the small time crew into a major crime cartel. Yakuza themes of loyalty to family and honor over life pervade the movie. The omnipresent violence somehow avoids being gratuitous, ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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