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Directed by | Takeshi Kitano |
Written by | Takeshi Kitano |
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Edited by | Takeshi Kitano |
Music by | Joe Hisaishi |
Production companies | Recorded Picture Company Office Kitano |
Distributed by | Shochiku Co., Ltd. (Japan) BAC Films (France) Sony Pictures Classics (United States) FilmFour Distributors (United Kingdom) |
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Running time | 114 minutes |
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Languages | Japanese English |
Box office | $15.3 million[2] |
Brother (Japanese: ブラザー, Hepburn: Burazā) is a 2000 crime film starring, written, directed, and edited by Takeshi Kitano.[3] The film premiered on September 7, 2000 at the Venice Film Festival. The plot centers on a mature yakuza gangster who has to flee to America, where he unites forces with his little brother and his brother’s gang in Los Angeles.[4]
It is the only American production directed by Kitano and also the only such film in which he starred.[5]