Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
An African American mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
- Director: Jim Jarmusch
- Genre:Crime / Drama / Thriller
- Runtime:111 minutes
Cast
Forest Whitaker : Ghost Dog
John Tormey : Louie
Cliff Gorman : Sonny Valerio
Dennis Liu : Chinese Restaurant Owner
Frank Minucci : Big Angie
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Ghost Dog (Whitaker) sees himself as a retainer of Louie (John Tormey), a local mobster, who saved Ghost Dog’s life years ago and while living as a hired hitman for the Italian Mafia, he strictly follows Hagakure.
Louie tells Ghost Dog to kill a gangster who is sleeping with the daughter of the mafia boss Vargo (Henry Silva). However, Ghost Dog kills the man in the girl’s presence. The mobsters decide to get rid of Ghost Dog to cover up their involvement. Louie knows practically nothing about Ghost Dog, and the hitman communicates only by homing pigeon. The mobsters start by tracing all the pigeon coops in town. They find Ghost Dog’s cabin atop a building and kill his pigeons. Ghost Dog realizes he must kill the entire mafia or otherwise they will kill him and his master.
During the day, Ghost Dog frequently visits the park to see his best friend, a Haitian ice cream salesman named Raymond (Isaach De Bankolé) who speaks only French. Ghost Dog doesn’t understand French and Raymond doesn’t understand English, but the two seem to understand each other. One of the recurring events in the film is a running gag when Ghost Dog and Raymond talk: one of them says something and the other, having not understood a word, rephrases it in his own language.
Ghost Dog also makes friends with a little girl named Pearline (Camille Winbush), to whom he lends a book — Rash?mon and Other Stories — he received from Vargo’s daughter. Paralleling a major theme of Rash?mon, Louie and Ghost Dog have different accounts of the circumstances of their meeting: in Louie’s flashback, we see him shoot Ghost Dog’s attacker in self-defense, while in Ghost Dog’s flashback, Louie shoots the attacker just as the attacker is about to kill Ghost Dog. Read more
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