The End Omar Epps scene didn't work for me either and I agree that the film might've been better left with pull back from Kitano's body at the diner. Although overall I thought Brother was yet another absoutly jaw dropping great film by Kitano.
I've thought about it, and I think maybe what happend was that what Kitano wrote for that last scene with Omar Epps probably lost something in the translation. As little as I personally understand about Asian Culture especially the often "Inscrutable Japanese", I think that when Kitano directed that last Omar Epps scene he might not have realized it would look foolish to most American's. English, American speech patterns, and ebonics might even seem as exotic and interesting to Japanese ears as the Japanese and other Asian languages sound to our own. So it's possible that Kitano just didn't realize that in that last scene Omar Epps wasn't coming off as very realistic or even using the type of speech pattern that usually coincides with the way Kitano most often ends his films. The big thing for me was, since Kitano's films, (including "Brother" if it would have ended with the last diner scene shot), end on a very softspoken, serene, and thoughtful note the addition of Omar Epps cussing like a sailor, using ebonics speech patterns, and not really even seeming realistic, seemed jarringly like "Not Kitano".
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