Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Victor Argo
Ghost Dog lives above the world, alongside a flock of birds, in a homemade shack on the roof of an abandoned building. Guided by the words of an ancient samurai text, Ghost Dog is a professional kille...( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 22, 2000
Stats: 2,165 reviews
I want to beat the living crap out of myself for not seeing this movie seven years earlier. This is one of the most amazing movies I've ever seen. The soundtrack is as awesome as the story. Ghost Dog is the fucking man!!!! He's like Terry Malloy, Leon and Kurosawa samurai all rol...( read more)
Ghost Dog oozes cool, Jarmusch balances action, drama and comedy, perfectly. This is also one of Whitaker's best performances.
Forest Whitaker proves that he can be quite the badass (not that he wasn't a badass already). RZA's soundtrack and cameo were pretty cool, too. As were the French ice cream salesman and his interactions with Forest Whitaker (Ghost Dog).
Ghost Dog: According to what one of the elders said, taking an enemy on the battlefield is like a hawk taking a bird. Even though it enters into the midst of a thousand of them, it gives no attention to any bird than the one it first marked.
An insightful story and one of my fa...( read more)
Now that I understand it better, it's pretty good. Still, stars down for bad music and multiple slow scenes (even though slow scenes and Jim Jarmusch go together, at least in his other films we see Lance Hendrixson eating people, or Tom Waits insulting people).
The guy playing the ice cream dude is priceless. Forest Whitaker is awesome. The direction is also very neat, even though it's quite different than the previous films Jarmusch made.
What an odd film for Mr. Whitaker...never quite seen him in a role like this. Thusly, I would check it out.
Definitely the coolest and most psychologically obscure film of Jim Jarmusch. A modern gem that does justice to the old style of samurai films and John Woo action masterpieces (yes, when he did good films) and the loneliness of the protagonist, concept taken mainly by genius Jean...( read more)
By the end, Whitaker's character has generated true poignance. full review
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai brings the minimalist director who found fame with 1984's Stranger Than Paradise back to the land of the living.
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