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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
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France, Germany, United States · 1999
Rated R · 1h 56m
Director Jim Jarmusch
Starring Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Cliff Gorman, Henry Silva
Genre Crime, Drama
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An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob after his boss orders him to kill the wrong man. An incredible and wholly original film built around an ice cold, one-of-a-kind tragic hero.
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San Francisco Chronicle by Bob Graham
Jim Jarmusch has come up with something strange and amazing.
Am I the only one who finds the substance of this movie repulsive?
Laced with brilliantly knotted ideas on race, masculinity and cults of violence.
A movie as laconic as its hero, Ghost Dog is nonetheless diminished by its most un-Zen-like attachment to this underlying sentimentality.
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
Perversely funny.
Points for an interesting concept; demerits for the dull execution.
Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
It's the kind of movie you wish you had more time to absorb and could see more than once before reviewing.
Niftily quirky.
USA Today by Staff [Not Credited]
The movie is still too solemn.
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