Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

CrimeDrama

7.341/10

116 min

Release Date: 1999-10-06

Overview - A Black hitman who models after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.

Production Companies

JVCBac FilmsPandora FilmPlywood ProductionsARD DegetoLe Studio Canal+

Overview - A Black hitman who models after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.

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CRCulver

7/10

The eponymous protagonist of Jim Jarmusch's 1999 film GHOST DOG is an African-American hitman (Forest Whitaker) working for an Italian mafia in New Jersey and living according to the Hagakure, Japan's samurai code. After a hit goes wrong through no fault of the assassin's own, his mafia liaison Louie (John Tormey) is sympathetic, but explains that his superiors now want Ghost Dog dead. The film fo...

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