Brother / Sony Pictures Classics ; Recorded Picture Company and Office Kitano present a Jeremy Thomas and Masayuki Mori production ; in association with FilmFour and BAC Films ; a Takeshi Kitano film ; produced by Jeremy Thomas, Masayuki Mori ; written, edited & directed by Takeshi Kitano.

After his crime boss is murdered in a Tokyo gang war, a yakuza gangster is exiled to Los Angeles. He has a big bag of money and a really bad attitude and hooks up with his half-brother who is the leader of a small-time drug ring. Together, with a local street hustler, the brothers declare war on the...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Corporate Authors: Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
Recorded Picture Company
Ofisu Kitano
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)
Other Authors: Bīto Takeshi (Director)
Thomas, Jeremy (Producer)
Mori, Masayuki, 1911-1973 (Producer)
Epps, Omar (Actor)
Maki, Kurōdo (Actor)
Kato, Masaya, 1963- (Actor)
Watkins, Royale, 1969- (Actor)
Boyar, Lombardo (Actor)
Watari, Tetsuya, 1941-2020
Language:Japanese
English
French
Spanish
Language of the Original:
Japanese
Language and/or Writing System:
Dialogue chiefly in Japanese with some English; optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish; closed-captioned in English.
Published: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2001]
Edition:Widescreen version.
Series:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:
Yakuza > Japan > Tokyo > Drama.
Gangs > California > Los Angeles > Drama.
Drug traffic > Drama.
Japanese > California > Los Angeles > Drama.
Feature films > Japan.
Foreign language films > Japanese.
Drama.
Drug traffic.
Gangs.
Japanese.
Yakuza.
California > Los Angeles.
Japan > Tokyo.
Action and adventure films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Genre:
Drama.
Feature films
Foreign language films
Action and adventure films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Also issued on VHS.
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
After his crime boss is murdered in a Tokyo gang war, a yakuza gangster is exiled to Los Angeles. He has a big bag of money and a really bad attitude and hooks up with his half-brother who is the leader of a small-time drug ring. Together, with a local street hustler, the brothers declare war on the other local drug traffickers. This ignites into the bloodiest, dirtiest, nastiest power struggle L.A. has ever seen.
Note:Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000.
Special features include trailers.
Videorecording.
Call Number:AF3 D0010042 VideoDVD
Audience:
MPAA rating: R.
ISBN:0767866304
9780767866309
Credits:Music by Joe Hisaishi ; cinematography by Katsumi Yanagijima ; edited by Yoshinori Ota.
System Details:DVD; dolby digital 5.1 or 2.0; NTSC; region 1.
Cast:
Beat Takeshi, Omar Epps, Claude Maki, Masaya Kato, Royale Watkins, Lombardo Boyar, Tetsuya Watari.
Additional Physical Form:
Also issued on VHS.