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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 crime drama film written, produced and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It stars Forest Whitaker as the title character, a hitman for the mafia who adheres to the ancient warrior code of the samurai, as outlined in the book of Yamamoto Tsunetomo 's recorded sayings, Hagakure.
Mar 24, 2000 · Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai: Directed by Jim Jarmusch. With Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Cliff Gorman, Dennis Liu. An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) is a contract killer, a master of his trade who can whirl a gun at warp speed and moves through this world like a phantom -- stealthy and evanescent.
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- Crime, Drama
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Ghost Dog, a down-on-his-luck hit man, gets hired by some mobsters to do a job, only to find he's been double-crossed. 895 IMDb 7.5 1 h 55 min 2000. X-Ray R. Drama · Cerebral · Serious · Strange. Subscribe for $9.99/month, rent, or buy.
Jim Jarmusch’s 90s classic GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI, gloriously restored in 4K and making its UHD debut, is a superbly sharp, unique thriller featuring a magnificent lead performance...
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. Jim Jarmusch combined his love for the ice-cool crime dramas of Jean-Pierre Melville and Seijun Suzuki with the philosophical dimensions of samurai mythology for an eccentrically postmodern take on the hit-man thriller.
Ghost Dog (Whitaker) lives alone - except for his friendly homing pigeons - on a rooftop in New York, a self made, modern Samurai warrior who has attached himself to a master in the form of a middle ranking gangster (Tormey) who once saved his life in an alley brawl.
