Ghost Dog The Way of the Samurai (1999)
Country: US/JAP/FR/GER
Technical: DeLuxe 116m
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Henry Silva, Isaach de Bankolé
Synopsis:
In between meditating on passages from a Samurai code of practice, and communicating by carrier pigeon, a black New Jersey hitman is double-crossed by, and avenged upon, his Mafia employers.
Review:
Like Dead Man this features a quirky kind of outlaw, one with the heart of a poet, and books and references to other works generally play a large part in the scheme of the movie: Rashomon and its multi-stranded narrative at first sight appears dissociated from this straightforward tale, but Frankenstein is also pulled out of the hat and one sees a postmodern collage of influences embracing On the Waterfront and Léon. The director's trademark humour is present in the French-speaking ice-cream salesman and rapping mafioso, and Whitaker takes it all deadly seriously, as expected.
Country: US/JAP/FR/GER
Technical: DeLuxe 116m
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Henry Silva, Isaach de Bankolé
Synopsis:
In between meditating on passages from a Samurai code of practice, and communicating by carrier pigeon, a black New Jersey hitman is double-crossed by, and avenged upon, his Mafia employers.
Review:
Like Dead Man this features a quirky kind of outlaw, one with the heart of a poet, and books and references to other works generally play a large part in the scheme of the movie: Rashomon and its multi-stranded narrative at first sight appears dissociated from this straightforward tale, but Frankenstein is also pulled out of the hat and one sees a postmodern collage of influences embracing On the Waterfront and Léon. The director's trademark humour is present in the French-speaking ice-cream salesman and rapping mafioso, and Whitaker takes it all deadly seriously, as expected.
Country: US/JAP/FR/GER
Technical: DeLuxe 116m
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Henry Silva, Isaach de Bankolé
Synopsis:
In between meditating on passages from a Samurai code of practice, and communicating by carrier pigeon, a black New Jersey hitman is double-crossed by, and avenged upon, his Mafia employers.
Review:
Like Dead Man this features a quirky kind of outlaw, one with the heart of a poet, and books and references to other works generally play a large part in the scheme of the movie: Rashomon and its multi-stranded narrative at first sight appears dissociated from this straightforward tale, but Frankenstein is also pulled out of the hat and one sees a postmodern collage of influences embracing On the Waterfront and Léon. The director's trademark humour is present in the French-speaking ice-cream salesman and rapping mafioso, and Whitaker takes it all deadly seriously, as expected.