Brother

Dec 13, 2000

1h 54m

★ 7.1

Are You Japanese?

Overview

A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Thriller

Production Companies

Recorded Picture Company

Office Kitano

Bandai Visual

Fuzzy Bunny Films

Little Brother

Tokyo FM

Brother Trailers

Cast

Aniki Yamamoto

Takeshi Kitano

Denny

Omar Epps

Ken

Claude Maki

Kato

Susumu Terajima

Shirase

Masaya Katō

Jay

Royale Watkins

Lombardo Boyar

Ishihara

Ryo Ishibashi

Sugimoto

James Shigeta

Latifa

Tatyana Ali

Rossi

Joseph Ragno

Harada

Ren Osugi

This is the story of three brothers - a priest, a soldier, and an outlaw - that are raised separately by their godfathers once their mother dies. They cross their paths again when the soldier and the priest move into two towns near the town the outlaw lives in. The drama will unfold once the three brothers meet each other.

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