Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

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George P Apr 2, 2019 A Melting Ice Cream Cone. Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai Jarmusch has an exonerating comic book quality. Dipped in an ancient cultural theme, Jim Jarmusch, the writer and director, accounts in all these events and ideologies for a clean easy action drama flick. This is a quality product, not a thought provoking drama, but incredibly rich in details, where there are barely any words spoken. Jarmusch also uses animals like dogs and bears and pigeons and even woodpecker to explain the spookiness. Addition to that, he also adds a cartoon-ish world in all the television scenarios to express the guns duels or how a girl welcomes all the birds in her house. But amongst all these metaphors, the one where Forest Whitaker observes a hunter being hunted by the victim, somehow paints the picture of the entire film. This employer gone wrong to the employee case, might be old but the heat extracted from that very ripped off storyline is a breath of fresh air. Another brilliant installation is of his unexpected relation with a girl and the ice cream seller. The girl whom he teaches by giving her a book to read somehow links and encircles all the character where the book is passed upon. The parchment is every now and then displayed with some sort of profound poetry and a useful piece of information for an insight in the character's perspective as Whitaker is not your talkative neighbor. Whitaker in this conserved brooding character charges at you with fear and a lot of empathy with his love for innocent beings, whether it be coming then from his read and applied books or just his nature. Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai is similar to its slick homemade gadget, sharp and precise in its work, Jim means nothing but business in his new territory. See more

Harry R Jul 23, 2018 A brilliant film accompanied by a brilliant soundtrack.

Draco G Jan 5, 2018 Bloody, schlocky, and a great performance by Forest Whitaker.

Albus R Dec 2, 2017 Quirky Gangster/Hitman film by Jim Jarmusch. Forest Whitaker is pretty good in the lead, just have a hard time buying into him being a Samurai and looking so out of shape. Maybe if it was Way of the Sumo, then I could buy into it more. But all jokes aside this movie is pretty fun and has a nice little story. A couple of the gangsters are pretty funny. See more

Harry S Nov 1, 2017 A good crime movie. The shootouts are not so impressive but it's good

Finn G Oct 6, 2017 By turns hilarious and cool, Ghost Dog is up there with the most genuinely awesome movies of all time, which is only one of many titles this mediation on human essence has to boast, along with an assortment of jaw-dropping action sequences that are perhaps the best since Costa-Gavras's Z. See more

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