I don't understand the plaudits for this series. There wasn't one original idea in it. Two brothers - one a cop - one a yakuza. How often has that been done with friends growing up together and taking different paths in life only to collide at the end? The Yakuza families at war - again - how often has this been portrayed in one way or another. The borrowings from "Kill Bill" "Snatch" "River" made this series just a pastiche of styles - couldn't the writers develop their own style? Evidently not - although they might have thought they did with the comedic interlude of Granny and Wife escaping from a Yakuza safe house and rescuing Yuto's woman and baby before waiting for the Yakuza to turn up so as they could fight them with frying pans - Oh - my shoulders heaved with that one. The needless gay sub plot - because lets face it that was only there to include explicit gay sex scenes which are so fashionable today - Rodney contributed little or nothing to the plot besides his junkie promiscuity. And Taki the disobedient child who claimed it wasn't her fault she wasn't there when her Grandfather died - well actually it was dear - you were the one who stole your mother's credit card and took off for London - what sense did that dialogue make? And last but not least - the modern ballet at the end - well - how hilarious was that? It was so embarrassingly bad. They left it open to a second series of course - I for one will bow out now.