Summary
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.
Good for
- Friends night
- Thought-provoking
- Adults
Skip it if
- You need an uplifting mood
- Graphic violence bothers you
Where to watch
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Audiences like it more than critics (+27)
Critics 47Audiences 74GoodWatch 60
Tomatometer47%
Metascore47
Audience score79%
Letterboxd · 25 K ratings3.7/5
IMDb7.1
User score7.1
Box office
1.3×its budget
- Budget
- $12 M
- Worldwide
- $15 M
Worldwide it earned $3 M more than it cost.
Running time
1 h 53 min
A typical length for crime movies, +7 min on the typical 106
typical 106113Half of all crime movies run 95–120 min.
Reach
Streams in 14 countries, rent or buy in 7 more
+4Released
2000
December 13, 2000
26 years ago
Genres
CrimeDramaThrillerLanguage
Japanese
Original language
Also spoken
EnglishItalianSpanishMade in
Japan- United Kingdom
France
Rated
- RUnited States
What's in it
- ViolenceIntense
- Gore, disturbing imagesMild
- Frightening scenesModerate
- Sex, nudityLittle or none
- Dark themesStrong
- Strong languageNamed in the advisories
- Drug useNamed in the advisories
In white: what the content advisories name. Levels from the title analysis.
Viewing guide
AdultsFriends NightSolo WatchThought-ProvokingNot listed for kids or family movie night.
24 of 72
Takeshi KitanoAniki Yamamoto
Omar EppsDenny
Claude MakiKen
Susumu TerajimaKato
Masaya KatōShirase
Royale WatkinsJay
Lombardo BoyarMo
Ryo IshibashiIshihara
James ShigetaSugimoto
Tatyana AliLatifa
Joseph RagnoRossi
Ren OsugiHarada
Noel GugliemiMexican Mafia Soldier
Pat MoritaGuy at the Poker Table
Tetsuya WatariJinseikai Boss
Amaury NolascoVictor- JNJoy NakagawaMarina
Rino KataseNight Club Madame
Kōen OkumuraHanaoka
Naomasa MusakaHisamatsu
Makoto ÔtakeChief of Police
Tony ColittiRoberto- WEWanda-Lee EvansDenny's Mother
Antwon TannerCollin
Directing · 8
- Takeshi Kitano Director, Writer, Editor
- Hiroshi Shimizu Assistant Director
- Takashi Matsukawa Assistant Director
- Hirofumi Inaba Assistant Director
- Atsushi Sunagawa Assistant Director
- Darrell Woodard Assistant Director
Production · 8
- Takio Yoshida Producer
- Ann Carli Producer
- Masayuki Mori Producer
- Peter Watson Producer
- Jeremy Thomas Producer
- Takefumi Yoshikawa Casting
Camera · 1
- Katsumi Yanagijima Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Yoshinori Ota Editor
Sound · 14
- Joe Hisaishi Original Music Composer
- Senji Horiuchi Sound Designer
- Akira Rizawa Sound Designer
- Kenji Shibasaki Supervising Sound Editor
- Alan Freedman ADR Recordist
- Dorian Cheah Sound Effects Editor
Art · 4
- Norihiro Isoda Production Design
- Anthony R. Stabley Art Direction
- Takayuki Nitta Art Direction
- Teresa Visinare Set Decoration
Costume & Make-Up · 11
- Yohji Yamamoto Costume Design
- Darryle Johnson Costume Design
- Tomoo Haraguchi Special Effects Makeup Artist
- Richard Snell Special Effects Makeup Artist
- Robert C. Mathews III Hairstylist
- Michio Miyauchi Makeup Artist
Lighting · 1
- Hitoshi Takaya Lighting Director
Other crew · 33
- Al Goto Stunt Coordinator
- Thomas Rosales Jr. Stunts
- Buddy Joe Hooker Stunts
- Johnny Martin Stunts
- Simon Rhee Stunts
- John Koyama Stunts
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