Movie: Brother (2000)

• Director: Takeshi Kitano
• Release Date: 23 August 2001 (Russia)
• Run Time: 114 min
• Country: USA , UK , Japan
• Genre: Crime , Drama , Thriller  
• MPAA: Rated R for pervasive strong violence, language and brief nudity.

Tagline: The one guy you trust to get your back when a whole city's trying to put a bullet in it.  

Trivia: Heavily cut for violence by the MPAA to obtain an ‘R’ Rating in the United States. 

Goofs: Continuity: Ken takes the photo of the potential blackmail victim with his right hand while his left hand is on the table. In the close-up he’s holding it with both hands, and then he returns the picture with his right hand while his left hand is on the table again. 

“A Japanese Yakuza gangster is exiled to the United States. Takeshi settles in Los Angeles where his younger, half brother lives and finds that although the turf is new, the rules are still the same as they try to take over the local drug trade. Written by Anonymous”