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Actors: Takeshi Kitano, Omar Epps, Kuroudo Maki, Masaya Kato
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Brother |
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A most recent of Takeshi Kitano's films - Brother focuses on a yakuza (played by Kitano) fleeing from problems in Tokyo and escaping to LA. However in LA all the problems of a yakuza life are there - gang conflict and Yamamoto's (Kitano) and his crews extermination of them and so forth. It is the sort of film that is quite difficult to convey, like most other of Takeshi's films hence it is better to see it. Many scene's in the film raise numerous questions - such as why did that guy Kato just shoot himself? Well the answer is simple - he sacrificed himself for the well being of his boss Yamamoto in due course uniting the two Japanese gangs. If visual references such as these are understood rather than ridiculed than the film becomes much more, in both content and action - than it may appear to be at first sight. After all it is Japanese, it's by Takeshi and it is imbued with traditions of bushido, yakuza, comedy and a philosophy of life and death - again if its comprehended the plot becomes rather meaningful and upsetting.
--anastasia g, Resident Scholar
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BROTHER is a movie written and directed by japanese director Takeshi Kitano in 2000. Kitano is a yakuza who has lost his boss in a gang war in Tokyo. Sentenced to death by the local mobsters, he decides to fly to Los Angeles and meet his half-brother, a young drug dealer with no ambition. Soon Kitano forms a new family who will have to face the mexican and L.A. japanese gangs and at last the Mafia. Violent and superb.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Brother |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Criminal enemy is...
- law enforcement gone bad
- Asian crime gangs
- drug dealers
If this is a criminal POV story...
- criminals stealing from other criminals
- criminals killing each other
- one man's rise in a criminal organization
- bad criminals on the run
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- criminal
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
- cynical
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) bald
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- muscular (man)
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
- Hispanic/Latinoa
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
- dangerous
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- resort/hotel
- sewers/subways
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- in awe
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
- dozens
Kind of violence:
- karate chop
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- poisoning
- fright
- decapitated
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Japanese
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
- A lot of foul language
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