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Critical response to the film was largely positive. On the Rotten Tomatoes review site, the film has an 82% Certified Fresh rating, based on reviews from 95 critics. The website s critical consensus was that the movie is An innovative blend of samurai and gangster lifestyles.
Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, describing it as truly, profoundly weird. Ebert s review proposed Ghost Dog made the most sense if Whitaker s character were insane: In a quiet, sweet way, he is totally unhinged and has lost all touch with reality. His profound sadness, which permeates the touching Whitaker performance, comes from his alienation from human society, his loneliness, his attempt to justify inhuman behavior (murder) with a belief system (the samurai code) that has no connection with his life or his world. J. Hoberman of The Village Voice described it as an impeccably shot and sensationally scored deadpan parody of two current popular modes (hitman films and mafia films).
The film was nominated for a few awards but did not win any of them. Among the nominations were the Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics, the César Award for Best Foreign Film of 2000 and the Palme d Or award at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
The film grossed a worldwide total of $9,380,473, of which $3,308,029 was in the United States.
Soundtrack
The film s score and soundtrack is the first produced by the Wu-Tang Clan s RZA.
US and Japanese versions of the soundtrack album have been released, each with a different set of tracks. The Japanese release also has some songs not in the film. Songs in the film that don t appear on either soundtrack album include From Then Till Now performed by Killah Priest, Armagideon Time performed by Willi Williams, Nuba One performed by Andrew Cyrille and Jimmy Lyons and Cold Lampin With Flavor performed by Public Enemy.
Track listing
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | Ice-Cream | |
2. | Fast Shadow | |
3. | Raise Your Sword | |
4. | From Then Till Now | |
5. | Armagideon Time | |
6. | Nuba One | |
7. | Cold Lampin With Flavor | |
8. | Dangerous Fun |
Cultural references
The film has been interpreted by critics as an homage to Le Samouraï, a 1967 crime-drama by Jean-Pierre Melville starring Alain Delon. That movie opens with a quote from an invented Book of Bushido and features a meditative, loner hero, Jef Costello. In the same manner that Ghost Dog has an electronic key to break into luxury cars, Costello has a huge ring of keys that enable him to steal any Citroën DS. The endings share a key similarity. The peculiar relationship between the protagonists of both movies and birds, as companions and danger advisers, is another common theme. The film contains a number of references to Seijun Suzuki s Branded to Kill, such as when a bird lands in front of Ghost Dog s rifle scope, referencing the incident with a butterfly in Suzuki s film. Ghost Dog shooting Sonny Valerio up the drain pipe is taken from Branded to Kill.
New
Laguna Films
2009-04-21
Adult
Laguna Films
DVD
Laguna Films
Not Rated
B001UDPA8S
735978440663
1999
2000-03-24
116
1h 56min
Awards, 1 win & 8 nominations
Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch
Forest Whitaker, Henry Silva, John Tormey
Richard Guay, Jim Jarmusch, Diana Schmidt
RZA
Robby Müller
Jay Rabinowitz
Ellen Lewis, Laura Rosenthal, Jeanne McCarthy
Ted Berner
Mario Ventenilla
Ron von Blomberg
John Dunn
Clifford Booker, Judy Chin, Todd Kleitsch, Neal Martz, Adenike Wright
Victor De Jesus, Lonnie Kandel, Gabrielle Mahon, Diana Schmidt, Stacey Smith, Karen L. Thorson
Cindy Craig, Jude Gorjanc, Jessica Piscitelli
Shirley Belwood, Jeff Butcher, Nathalie Cassegrain, Bill Cassidy, Peter DeCurtis, Susan Glod, Mario Herrera, Richard S. Kamin, Louis Mucci, Joseph Proscia, Danny Rovira, Philip Saccio Jr., Philip Saccio, Jennifer Snoeyink, Ken Sperling, Steve Swanson, Clayton Thomas, Roman Turovsky, Thomas Hocking
David Boulton, Jason Canovas, John Chamberlain, Eric A. Christoffersen, Anthony J. Ciccolini III, Ryan Collison, Keith Culbertson, Joe Dohner, Jeanne Gilliland, Thomas A. Gulino, Ann Hadsell, Drew Kunin, Kevin Meehan, Yvette Nabel, Daniel Pagan, Alex Raspa, Lynn Sable, Dominick Tavella, Brian Vancho, John Werner, Karl Wasserman
Drew Jiritano, John Stifanich, Andrew Mortelliti
John Furniotis, Don Nolan, Trevor Bajus, Molle DeBartolo, Gray Miller, Dave Salter, Mark Tureski
Norman Douglass, Manny Siverio, Jeff Ward
Chris Beattie, Katherine M. Butler, Christian Carmody, Francesca Cobaco, Jon Delgado, Ray Flynn, Abbot Genser, Douglas C. Hart, Pedro Hernández, Chaim Kantor, Tim Kelly, Gary Lamantia, Scott Maguire, Rick Marroquin, Gary Martone, Michael J. Maurer, Tally Morse, David Norris, Sean O'Brien, Christopher Porter, Rick Raphael, Mark Schwentner, Josh Steinberg, Nicolas L. Charuet, Chaim Kantor
Anthony Ortiz, Jessy Terrero, Ulysses Terrero, Blythe Cappello, Gayle Keller, Jeanne McCarthy
Kevin Brainerd, David Davenport, Amy Habacker
Jennifer Apel, Héctor Cordero, Tony Grocki, Ricardo Olivero, Catherine Rankin, John Dowdell, Peter Phillips
Carl Archibald, Ged Dickersin, Tom Jarmusch, Suk Yi Mar, Kevon Murphy, Kate Schultz, Demond Stafford, Mimi Turner
Jay Rabinowitz, Sunz of Man, Tekitha
Chiemi Karasawa
John Arena Jr., Ralph Astarita, Tom Buckman Jr., Bill Buckman, Christopher Cilento, Danny Houghton, Joe Irwin, Bob Lansing, Leonard Luizzi, John Lynch Jr., Joe Mallon, George Moran, John Raffone, Ed Stewart, Francis Volpe, Louis Volpe, Ralph Volpe
Cynthia Bauer, Jesse Bodine, Brian Cantaldi, Jen Cox, Aaron Douglas, Sara Driver, Jennifer Ehman, Joe Facey, Orlando Ferreyra III, Kathleen Gallagher, Mara Galus, Jeff Seymann Gilbert, Jill Goldstein, Ariel Greene, Joe Guest, Tucker Hartsorne, Richard Heller, Vanessa Jacobs, Paul Johnson, Damon Keller, Stefanie Koseff, Brian Lampf, Susan Lawlor, Nemo Librizzi, Gabrielle Mahon, Alfredo Martinez, Steve McAuliff, Tony McKray, Kelly Mearkle, Macho Mendez, Chris O'Brien, David Phillips, Jennifer Pietzryh, Reid Rosefelt, Christa Saredi, Harris Smith, Stacey Smith, Michele Soddano, Jim Sotet, Thea St. Omer, Eliza Thomas, Daira Torres, Alfonso Trinidad, Dana Wisher, Heathar Wynne, Randall Balsmeyer, Al Cerullo, Lee Holifield, Michael K. Reynolds
Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Pierre Melville, Mary Shelley, Bart Walker
Crime, Drama
Pandora Filmproduktion, ARD (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland), ARD Degeto Film
France, Germany, USA, Japan
English, French
R
7.5
91301
67
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 crime film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. Forest Whitaker stars as the title character, the mysterious Ghost Dog , a hitman in the employ of the Mafia, who follows the ancient code of the samurai as outlined in the book of Yamamoto Tsunetomo s recorded sayings, Hagakure. Critics have noted similarities between the movie and Jean-Pierre Melville s 1967 film Le Samouraï.
The film opened to largely positive critical reception, and was nominated for both an Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature and a César Award for Best Foreign Film.
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$3,308,029
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