“Brother” (2000, 108 minutes) will be screened in 35mm on Friday, Aug. 2, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ Ted Mann Theater, 6067 Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles.
The film is part of the museum’s “Summer in the City: Los Angeles Block by Block” series.
Writer-director Takeshi Kitano stars as Yamamoto, an enigmatic, violent yakuza enforcer who flees Japan and relocates to Los Angeles, where he becomes involved in his half-brother’s drug business. Free from the rigid structure of yakuza culture, Yamamoto builds his own gang with new associate Denny (Omar Epps) and begins taking over rival territories as the two form a close bond and establish themselves as a formidable force in the underworld.
Filmed around Little Tokyo — and the only feature Kitano made outside Japan — this is “a rare chance to see L.A. through his uniquely poetic yet brutal lens,” the museum said.
The cast also includes Claude Maki, Masaya Kato, Susumu Terajima, Royale Watkins, Lombardo Boyar, Ren Osugi, Ryo Ishibashi, Tatyana Ali, Joy Nakagawa and James Shigeta.
Tickets are $10 general, $7 for seniors, $5 for students. For more information and reservations, go to www.academymuseum.org/en/calendar.