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Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai

1999, Movie, R, 116 mins

GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI
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Points for an interesting concept; demerits for the dull execution. Writer-director Jim Jarmusch's first feature since his brilliant DEAD MAN is an uneasy mixture of classic samurai adventure, post-Scorsese gangster drama, hip-hop sounds and stylings, and Jarmusch's trademark brand of deadpan cool. Too bad it doesn't work, even as the postmodern comic book it aspires to be. High atop a dilapidated building in a burned-out, boarded-up urban neighborhood, a hired gun known onl... read more leave a comment
An African American mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
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Length: 01:56:00
Posted: 10/19/2008
East meets West in this hip-hop infused samurai-gangster pic in which Forest Whitaker plays a professional killer who goes by the name of Ghost Dog and who lives by the code of the Samurai.
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Length: 01:56:00
Posted: 6/1/2008
Year: 1999
Rated R

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Cast
Forest Whitaker: Ghost Dog
John Tormey: Louie
Henry Silva: Ray Vargo
Isaach de Bankole: Raymond
Cliff Gorman: Sonny Valerio
Victor Argo: Vinny

 

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