The Way of the Samurai is a '90s crime thriller that stars Forest Whitaker and delves deep into samurai code and mafia tropes ...

That’s particularly true of Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), his urban samurai mob movie classic, which plays at the Hollywood Theatre on Feb. 25. A film that fascinated movie fans by ...

The Movie Ghost Dog (Whitaker) is a pretty weird dude. He is a hit man, employed by the Mafia, who raises carrier pigeons and follows the ancient code of the Samurai, except he uses guns with ...

A few days before writing this, I rewatched the 1999 Jim Jarmusch indie cult classic, Ghost Dog: Way Of The Samurai, for the first time in something like 10 years. I yammered about it so much that ...

Jim Jarmusch’s 1999 film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is getting a new Criterion Collection release later this year. Starring Forest Whitaker, the RZA-scored movie follows a mafia hitman ...

Similarly, Ghost Dog’s entire essence comes from an innate connection to a world incredibly foreign from his own – the way of the samurai. As much as the film navigates the complexities of ...

Original indie-hipster Jim Jarmusch ("Down By Law", "Night On Earth") seems to be well outside his usual territory here, yet "Ghost Dog" not only hangs together, it's original, sharply funny ...

The self-made samurai is Forest Whitaker’s Ghost Dog, rescued in his youth by minor mafioso Louie (John Tormey), to whom he’s gratefully sworn his fealty. Louie uses G-Dog as an ...