Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
Brother
TITLE DETAILS

Brother

2000-12-13 · 113 min · ★ 7.1

Crime · Drama · Thriller

A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
Takeshi Kitano
Production companies
Recorded Picture Company, Office Kitano, Film4 Productions, Bac Films
Countries
Japan, United Kingdom, France
Status
Released
Budget
USD 12,000,000
Revenue
USD 15,250,000

Top Cast

Takeshi KitanoTakeshi KitanoAniki Yamamoto
Omar EppsOmar EppsDenny
Claude MakiClaude MakiKen
Susumu TerajimaSusumu TerajimaKato
Masaya KatōMasaya KatōShirase
Royale WatkinsRoyale WatkinsJay
Lombardo BoyarLombardo BoyarMo
Ryo IshibashiRyo IshibashiIshihara
James ShigetaJames ShigetaSugimoto
Tatyana AliTatyana AliLatifa
Joseph RagnoJoseph RagnoRossi
Ren OsugiRen OsugiHarada
Noel GugliemiNoel GugliemiMexican Mafia Soldier
Pat MoritaPat MoritaGuy at the Poker Table
Tetsuya WatariTetsuya WatariJinseikai Boss
Amaury NolascoAmaury NolascoVictor
Joy NakagawaMarina
Rino KataseRino KataseNight Club Madame
Kōen OkumuraKōen OkumuraHanaoka
Naomasa MusakaNaomasa MusakaHisamatsu

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Rental

Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

Purchase

Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

View authorized watch options on TMDb

Recommendations

We Die Young
★ 6.8
We Die Young2019Crime · Drama · Thriller

Lucas, a 14-year-old boy inducted into the gang life in Washington D.C., is determined that his 10-year-old brother won't follow the same path. When an Afghanistan war veteran comes into the neighborhood, an opportunity arises.

Outrage
★ 6.9
Outrage2010Crime · Drama · Thriller

When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge.

Violent Cop
★ 7.2
Violent Cop1989Crime · Drama · Thriller

A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and yakuza activities.

State of Grace
★ 6.9
State of Grace1990Crime · Drama · Thriller

Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Irish mob, and rekindles his love affair with Jackie's sister Kathleen.

American Yakuza
★ 5.8
American Yakuza1993Crime · Thriller

When Nick Davis leaves prison after one year in solitairy, he is hired to operate a forklift in a warehouse in the harbor owned by the Japanese Yakuza patriarch Isshin Tendo. The place is assaulted by the Italian Mafia lead by Dino Campanela and Nick rescues and saves the life of Shuji Sawamoto, who is the representative of Yakuza interests in America. Shuji hires Nick to work for Yakuza and becomes his godfather in the family after his oath to join Yakuza. However, Nick is a lonely FBI undercover agent assigned to penetrate the criminal organization. When the FBI discovers that Campanela is organizing a massive attack to destroy the Yakuza, Nick's boss Littman calls off the operation to leave the dirty work to the Italian Mafia. But the connection of Nick with Shuji and his goddaughter Yuko forces him to help his Japanese family.

Scarface
★ 8.2
Scarface1983Crime · Drama

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

Female Yakuza Tale
★ 6.1
Female Yakuza Tale1973Crime · Drama · Thriller

Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
★ 7.3
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima1973Crime · Drama

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.

The Corruptor
★ 6.1
The Corruptor1999Crime · Drama · Thriller

Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets things done.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity
★ 7.3
Battles Without Honor and Humanity1973Crime · Drama

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

The Boondock Saints
★ 7.2
The Boondock Saints1999Crime · Thriller

Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner and Murphy are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown of evil with their own brand of zealous vigilante justice. As they hunt down and kill one notorious gangster after another, they become controversial folk heroes in the community. But Paul Smecker, an eccentric FBI agent, is fast closing in on their blood-soaked trail.

Avengement
★ 6.9
Avengement2019Crime · Thriller

While on a prison furlough, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old stomping ground to take revenge on the people who turned him into a cold blooded killer.

State Property
★ 6.4
State Property2002Crime · Drama

A Philadelphia gang member becomes a drug kingpin and starts a feud with vicious rivals in his quest for the American Dream.

Branded to Kill
★ 7.2
Branded to Kill1967Crime · Thriller

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

The Substitute
★ 7.0
The Substitute1996Crime · Drama · Thriller

When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon he discovers a conspiracy of criminals at work, and must reassemble his team from his last jungle raid to stop them.

Ninja: Shadow of a Tear
★ 6.8
Ninja: Shadow of a Tear2013Crime · Thriller

Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American stealthily tracks the killer from Osaka to Bangkok to Rangoon with the help of a wise and crafty sensei. His only clues: a series of victims whose necks bear the distinctive mark of strangulation by barbed wire. Fighting to avenge as well as to survive, Casey must sharpen his razor-like responses and take his battle skills to the next level, even using deep meditation to fake his own death. His target: the sinister drug lord Goro, who is flooding the streets with deadly meth cooked at his remote jungle factory. To prepare for his ultimate confrontation, Casey must finally become an invisible warrior worthy of the name Ninja. But just when his prey is cornered, an unexpected twist shows Casey that his battle is only beginning: he truly can trust no one.

Rise of the Footsoldier
★ 6.3
Rise of the Footsoldier2007Crime · Thriller

Carlton Leach rises from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late '80s and early '90s.

Revenge of the Ninja
★ 6.3
Revenge of the Ninja1983Crime · Drama · Thriller

A peaceful ex-ninja's life shatters when his son's kidnapping forces him back into violence amid an American-Japanese criminal drug war.

Crown Vic
★ 6.2
Crown Vic2019Crime · Drama

One memorable night in the life of veteran patrol officer Ray Mandel and his trainee, ambitious rookie cop Nick Holland in the LAPD's Olympic Division. With two cop killers on the loose and hunting for more targets, Mandel and Holland must contend with a city about to boil over, as well as Jack VanZandt, an unhinged rogue cop out for payback running wild in their patrol zone.

One False Move
★ 6.6
One False Move1992Crime · Drama · Thriller

Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding. Two detectives from the LAPD, who are already on the case, contact the town's sheriff, Dale Dixon, to alert him of the fugitives' presence in the area. Underestimating Dixon, the criminals have no idea what they are about to face.

Similar titles

Nomads
★ 4.8
Nomads1986Drama · Thriller

One night, in a Los Angeles hospital, Dr. Flax attends to a seriously injured man who, apparently crazed, whispers mysterious and disconcerting words in French into her ear.

Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie
★ 7.3
Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie2009Drama

During a family vacation, Alex, a young witch, accidentally casts a curse on her loved ones. To reverse this, she tries to find a magical stone while her brother tries to keep their parents together.

Street Smart
Not rated
Street Smart2026Drama

A look into the lives of a lively group of unhoused young adults in the iconic beach town, who come together with humor and a bit of Robin Hood-style larceny, forging unbreakable bonds and redefining what it means to be a family.

Gonin
★ 6.6
Gonin1995Crime · Drama · Thriller

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.

Table for Six
★ 6.9
Table for Six2022Drama

To big brother Steve, nothing is more satisfying than dining with his two younger half-siblings. But when his old flame shows up as his brother's girlfriend, kitchen nightmare strikes and it's up to his part-time girlfriend to simmer down the situation.

Bitch Slap
★ 4.8
Bitch Slap2009Crime · Drama · Thriller

Three bad girls - a down-and-out stripper, a drug-running killer, and a corporate powerbroker - arrive at a remote desert hideaway to extort and steal $200 million in diamonds from a ruthless underworld kingpin.

Boiling Point
★ 6.9
Boiling Point1990Crime · Drama · Thriller

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.

Too Late for Tears
★ 6.8
Too Late for Tears1949Crime · Thriller

Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.

Skriger til Himlen
★ 10.0
Skriger til Himlen2025Drama

The Devils
★ 6.2
The Devils2002Drama

The story of the struggle of an autistic girl and her brother trying to survive without their parents.

Suburban Cowboy
★ 7.0
Suburban Cowboy2019Crime · Thriller

Suburban Cowboy follows a drug dealer on Long Island who finds himself over his head when one of his soldiers robs a connection to ruthless Serbian gangsters. When the debt falls on his shoulders he is forced to take drastic measures.

Close to Leo
★ 6.1
Close to Leo2002Drama

When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV positive, his family quickly rallies around him. Leo travels to Paris with his youngst brother Marcel for treatment. When Leo tries to push his brother away to protect him, the love and loyalty of the two brothers is tested.

Darkness of Man
★ 5.3
Darkness of Man2025Crime · Thriller

Russell Hatch, an Interpol operative who takes on the role of father figure to Jayden, the son of an informant killed in a routine raid gone wrong. Years later, Hatch finds himself protecting Jayden and his grandfather from a group of merciless gangs in an all-out turf war, stopping at nothing to protect Jayden and fight anyone getting in his way.

Two Brothers
★ 5.1
Two Brothers2001Drama

An independent drama about two brothers trying to patch up the holes in their relationship, while coming to terms with their personal differences. One brother has moved away from home rather than confront his family with the fact that he's gay; he eventually has a reunion with his older brother, who ran away from home years before, with no explanation regarding where he went and why.

Kids Return
★ 6.9
Kids Return1996Crime · Drama

Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.

My Home Hero the Movie
★ 8.1
My Home Hero the Movie2024Crime

Seven years have passed since family man Tetsuo Tosu survived a fierce battle with a criminal organization. However, Tetsuo's peaceful family life begins to crumble once again when a sudden landslide uncovers an old sin.

Everything Is Free
★ 5.3
Everything Is Free2017Drama

Ivan is a US painter residing in Colombia. His best friend, Christian, and younger brother, Cole, come to visit. Somewhere along the way, Ivan and Cole hit it off although Cole is not gay. Will older brother Christian be okay with that?

Cedar Boys
★ 4.3
Cedar Boys2009Crime · Drama

Things go terribly wrong for three Lebanese-Australian friends who try to get ahead by selling stolen drugs.

The Penalty
★ 6.9
The Penalty1920Crime · Drama · Thriller

Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated after an accident, becomes a vicious criminal, and eventually mob leader of the San Francisco underworld.

Thanks for the Tears
Not rated
Thanks for the Tears1965Crime · Drama

A film about two men who join the fight against a gang selling weapons.

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.