At once a tribute to traditional notions of honour, loyalty, friendship and professionalism, and a stylish, ironic pastiche inspired by the likes of Melville and Suzuki, it's very funny, insightful, and highly original.
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Live by the code. Die by the code.
1999 · 1h 57m · R
Crime, Drama
Directed by
Jim Jarmusch
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Overview
A Black hitman who models after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
Director and cast
- Jim Jarmusch Director
- Forest Whitaker as Ghost Dog
- John Tormey as Louie
- Cliff Gorman as Sonny Valerio
- Frank Minucci as Big Angie
- Richard Portnow as Handsome Frank
- Tricia Vessey as Louise Vargo
- Henry Silva as Ray Vargo
- Gene Ruffini as Old Consigliere
- Frank Adonis as Valerio's Bodyguard
- Victor Argo as Vinny
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
A handsomely shot, cool-sounding head-scratcher of a film that probably isn't worth the wear on the fingernails.
Too whimsically staged to take as serious suspense, too grimly real to be amusing.
Hypnotic and quietly subversive.
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai brings the minimalist director who found fame with 1984's Stranger Than Paradise back to the land of the living.
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