Dir: Takeshi Kitano. Japan-UK-US. 2000. 108 mins.Prod cos: Office Kitano, Recorded Picture Company. U <a href=https://www.stanley-cups.com.es>stanley cup</a> S dist: Sony Picture Classics. Int l sales: HanWay Films Ltd, tel: 44 20 7290 0750. Prod: Masayuki Mori, Jeremy Thomas. Scr: Takeshi Kitano. DoP: Katsumi Yanagijima. Ed: Yoshinori Ota, Takeshi Kitano. Music: Joe Hisaishi. Main cast: Takeshi Beat Kitano Yamamoto , Omar Epps Denny , Claude Maki <a href=https://www.cup-stanley.co.uk>stanley cup</a> Ken , Masaya Kato Shirase , Ren Ohsugi Harada , Susumu Terajima Kato .Like Tintin and Franz Kafka, Japanese f <a href=https://www.stanleycups.it>stanley cup</a> ilm-maker Takeshi Kitano has decided to take on America. And like those of his illustrious predecessors, Kitano s America is a mental construct: although the film was shot on location in Los Angeles, it s not a city many of us will recognise. It s a place of bland, sparsely furnished offices and hotel rooms, desolate concrete underpasses and the wasteland where suburbia meets the desert come to think of it, it s utterly realistic . All good places to die or be killed in: which is mostly what happens in the film: repeatedly, with guns, in choreographic detail.Kitano s best-known and best-distributed films in the West - Hana-Bi and Kikijuro - are tender and poetic, their little bittersweet illuminations encased in a slow-moving frame; though there is also an edge of menace in the impassive, unpredictable character played by Kitano himself. Brother belongs to another strand of his oeuvre - the hard-boiled yakuza Japanese mafia gangster movie. The story - and the camera - Ykwl NORWAY
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