Thanks for the memories!

Excellent but underrated film

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Yakuza tale set in AmericaEx-yakuza member starts a new life in America , and gets back to his old ways

Brother like many other Takeshi Kitano films it is a gangster related action film the film itself is worth a 7 out of 10 but it's Kitanos witty dry almost British humour in his films that brings him up a notch, in this film the scene where he is betting on whether a man or woman comes round the corner scene, no spoilers u gotta check it out. Just like his other films with action great directing but mainly his cheeky banter and professional acting skills that makes the film. If you likes his 93 film sonatine this film is on par with that , but even better if you prefer less subtitles as its set in us only half is subtitles but to me I love my world cinema so it is all good. This film is definitely a good Friday night watch ..

I regret wasting my time watching this awful movie. I took it from the good ratings and the reviews comparing this film to Goodfellas and The Godfather which is absolute blasphemy! In fact this film is not worth watching at all. The plot, acting, direction, everything about this movie is garbage. The only thing I could say was watchable about this film is occasional gory action. Other than that this movie doesn't make any sense to me. Total waste of time.If you still for some reason are planning to watch it, please refer to the "hated it" section of the reviews to get the accurate insights as to why not to do it. Please save yourself some time and watch Tarantino's movies for "bloody action".

I know my friends here in IMDb that this is an strange question and also is very illogic because well, Kitano is much older than Quentin in films question but also in age and also Quentin release a Kitano film in his Rolling Thunder Collection: Sonatine (1993) ...but this question is the tag line of the BROTHER DVD here in Mexico City, the DVD says: Brother (El Capo): A film by Takeshi Kitano "The new Tarantino" This is for laugh to all the KItano fans........but for me was really helpful because i never knew about Takeshi KItano (sorry for that) and of course i knew about Quentin and when i saw this film in DVD with this tag line, well i buy it very fast and saw it the same afternoon.Later i start to investigate about who is Kitano, and i found this surprise: Takeshi Kitano is like a influence for Tarantino and is one of the most important films maker of Japan.And well right now i'm trying to buy all the films of Takeshi Kitano but is a little hard here in Mexico City because not many people Knows about Takeshi Kitano.ABOUT THE FILM BROTHER: The reason why i started to investigate about Kitano was that i really enjoy and love this excellent film.This is not the common film about gangsters that we already know........this is a very original and great history about a gangster of Japan who need to move to the US for questions of his work.There in US, this gangster (Takeshi Kitano) show to the little gang of his young brother that what they need to grow up in the matter of business is a leader like him.Very soon this gang start to take the control of LA and finally they need to fight against the most powerful gang in LA: The Italian mafia.The story is,for a lot of people and critics, very common but for me KItano make this story very original because he put elements that never were released in another film about gangsters.This elements are of course, the character that plays himself because he can't talk English but still can control the gang of his brother. Other elements are the excellent scenes like the one were he cut the face of a black guy that latter is in his gang and well the performances (all) are excellent and also the direction is great.BROTHER (2000) is an excellent film and well: Takeshi Kitano is not the new Tarantino...OK???