Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
— The soul of a hitman: another comical curiosity from the quiet genius.”
- Director: Jim Jarmusch
- United States, 1999
Ghost Dog is the closest Jim Jarmusch comes to conventional cinema, though as Jarmusch fans will confirm, it’s hardly a standard issue movie.
The superb Forest Whitaker conjures a bulky eponymous hero that weighs in somewhere between urban ninja and soft-hearted simpleton. The remainder of the cast consists of kooky, pensionable-age Italian American gangster cutouts and Isaach De Bankolé in a frankly bizarre supporting role.
Ghost Dog is about subtletly and humour and has much in common with the themes and spatial awareness of Japanese cinema.
See also:
Down By Law
Swamp thing: a film about non-actors doing star turns.
- Originally published: 28 Dec 2006 in Film
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