Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Jim Jarmusch19991h 56mCrime, Drama

Why we chose it

Jim Jarmusch directed this legend of urban cinema and RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan wrote its music. Forest Whitaker plays a Mafia hitman who lives up on a rooftop among his pigeons and follows the code of a three-hundred-year-old samurai handbook.

Synopsis

On the roof of a building in a run-down American city, a hitman raises pigeons, lives by a book of samurai wisdom and works for the gangster who once saved his life. When a job goes wrong through no fault of his own, he becomes the one in the crosshairs.

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Production year: 1999
Decade: 1990s
Duration: 1h 56m
Genre: Crime Drama
Festivals & Awards
Language: English, French
Country: France, Germany, United States, Japan
Subtitles: Greek, Polish
Age rating: Κ-15

Cannes Film Festival

Official Selection

1999

César Awards

Nomination for Best Foreign Film

2000

What others say

4.5

164 reviews

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