The Boston Herald, July 27th, 2001
"Brother."
In English and Japanese with English subtitles. At the Kendall Square and Embassy cinemas.
2 1/2 stars (out of four)
Cultures collide furiously in "Brother," a film offering a more intense and violent look at the East-meets-West dynamics of the 1998 action-comedy, smash hit "Rush Hour."
Kitano "Beat" Takeshi ("Fireworks," "Sonatine") is Japan's foremost practitioner of the art of the yakuza film, Japan's variation of classic American gangster movies. His disappointing, bilingual film "Brother" is yet another fish-out-of-water story. In flashbacks set in Japan, Takeshi's Yamamo...
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