closeup of Takeshi Kitano aka Beat Takeshi, wearing sunglasses

In Brother, Beat Takeshi shows LA hoods Yakuza style

Brother is very. Very interesting. Very dry. Very understated, for all the violence. Beat Takeshi Kitano directed this movie, his first outside of Japan. Photo of Takeshi Kitano, in black suit and dark sunglasses. Still from his film Brother. Takeshi Kitano aka “Beat” Takeshi in Brother. (If you don’t know Beat, you may still recognize his face.) Wikipedia currently remarks: Brother (2001), shot in Los Angeles, had Kitano as a deposed Tokyo yakuza setting up a drug empire in L....

 · Laura Lis Scott