Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Edit

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( fr ) Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 film directed by Jim Jarmusch. The film takes place in a fictional Northeastern city and its environs. Forest Whitaker stars as the title character, the mysterious 'Ghost Dog', an African American hitman in the employ of the Mafia, and who follows the ancient code of the samurai as outlined in book of Yamamoto Tsunetomo's recorded sayings, Hagakure. Sountrack is from the RZA.

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