Brother

Brother (2000) is Takeshi Kitano's crime drama you can watch online on iFILM. After his clan collapses in Tokyo, the yakuza enforcer Yamamoto is exiled to Los Angeles, where his younger half-brother is scraping by.

Yamamoto, played by Kitano himself, lands in a foreign city with no money, no allies and no margin for mistakes. His brother and a few friends are pushing drugs on a small scale; the older man reshapes those street kids into a disciplined crew and goes to war with rival gangs and the Mafia. The one person who stays loyal is Denny (Omar Epps), a young Black man whose eye he once saved. This was Kitano's first film shot in English on American soil, carrying his signature bursts of violence that erupt out of dead silence.

The yakuza code reads here like a sentence: the road leads to the top or to a bullet, nothing between. For viewers who value Kitano's cold, pared-down style and gangster films stripped of romance. Stream Brother (2000) online on iFILM.