https://lauralisscott.com/tags/brother/ Recent content in brother on Laura Lis Scott https://lauralisscott.com/images/lls_icon.png https://lauralisscott.com/images/lls_icon.png Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://lauralisscott.com/blog/2009-01-03-brother-beat-takeshi-shows-la-hoods-yakuza-style/ Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://lauralisscott.com/blog/2009-01-03-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.