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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai newly released by Criterion Collection today, Filmmaker is publishing online for the first time Peter Bowen’s interview with Jarmusch and actor ...

Along the way ... for your ear. “Samurai Theme” is built on a martial-sounding sample that triggers just off the beat, an audio companion to the sight of the ungainly Ghost Dog practicing ...

Whitaker is a Y2K assassin guided by ancient warrior codes in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, director Jim Jarmusch’s cross cultural take on the gangster flick. The hit gone wrong plot is ...