Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Ghost Dog The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 American crime action film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. Forest Whitaker stars as the title character, the mysterious Ghost Dog, a hitman in the employ of the Mafia, who follows the ancient code of the samurai as outlined in the book of Yamamoto Tsunetomos recorded sayings, Hagakure. Critics have noted similarities between the movie and JeanPierre Melvilles 1967 film Le Samoura.

Louie tells Ghost Dog to kill a gangster, Handsome Frank, who is sleeping with the daughter Tricia Vessey of the mafia boss Vargo Henry Silva. Ghost Dog arrives and kills the gangster, before seeing that the girl is also in the room at the time she lends him a book he leaves her alive, and exits. In order to avoid being implicated in the murder of a made man, Vargo and his associate Sonny Valerio decide to get rid of Ghost Dog. 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 Dogs 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, an ice cream salesman named Raymond Isaach De Bankol who speaks only French. Ghost Dog does not understand French and Raymond does not understand English, but the two seem to understand each other. Ghost Dog also makes friends with a little girl named Pearline Camille Winbush, to whom he lends the bookRashmon and Other Storieshe received from Vargos daughter. Paralleling a major theme of Rashmon, Louie and Ghost Dog have different accounts of the circumstances of their meeting in Louies flashback he shoots Ghost Dogs attacker in selfdefense, while in Ghost Dogs flashback, Louie shoots the attacker just as the attacker is about to kill Ghost Dog. ........

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