Brother

Anyone seen it? It's the story of brothers that are involved in the Mob in Japan and One brother comes to America to try and recreate the life he had here. There's run ins with the Italian Mafia(they kick ass btw). It's just a great mafia flick.



In "Brother," he (the director) brings his Yakuza gangster legend to the shores of California. Yamamoto (Takeshi Kitano) is a member of the Japanese Yakuza who is deeply involved in a gang war. When he gets banished to the United States, he looks up his younger brother, Ken (Claude Maki), who's fighting a drug war of his own against the Mafia. Yamamoto, with the help of his brother and new-found friend (Omar Epps), turns their small-time outfit into a powerful one that holds a grip on the L.A. underworld.

I did ! Very funny movie

I love Takeshi Kitano, he always looks so calm and as if he was making fun of everybody. The story was interesting too although I can't remember it well, I saw the movies a couple of years ago.

Almammater

is it anygood? when did it come out?how long is it?

Yes, it's very good. They even try to enact a scene from Godfather where they hide the gun in the bathroom before the meeting. You have got to see this movie. It's 113 minutes.

"Internationally acclaimed director and Japanese media phenomenon Takeshi Kitano follows up his well-regarded Kikujiro with this straight-ahead gangster saga with a cross-cultural twist. The film focuses on Yamamoto (Kitano), a yakuza forced out of the country when a gang war all but wipes out his clan. Armed with a fake credit card, a forged passport, and a bag of money, he journeys to the strange and foreign land of Los Angeles to join his half-brother Ken (Claude Maki), who works as a low-rent street tough alongside fast-talking hustler Denny (Omar Epps). With brutal efficiency, the poker-faced Yamamoto starts staking out turf and organizing Ken's mob into one of the most powerful criminal syndicates in the city. As his gang grows in number and power, he is joined by Kato (Kitano regular Susumu Terajima), his former lieutenant from Japan, who entreats Little Tokyo's pathological crime boss Shirase (Masaya Kato) to join the group. Yamamoto seems unstoppable until his gang runs afoul of the Mafia. Soon, all that he built quickly and bloodily starts to unravel as every member in his gang is marked for death. This film was screened at the 2000 Toronto Film Festival."

oh, yeah it came out in 2000. But the dvd just came out at the first of this year.

nice but if it rips off The Gf i'm staying away from it thank you for the feedback however.

no it doesn't "rip off" the Godfather. More like a nod to the Godfather.