Ghost Dog lives above the world, alongside a flock of birds, in a homemade shack on the roof of an abandoned building. Guided by the words of an ancient Samurai text, Ghost Dog is a professional killer able to dissolve into the night and move through the city unnoticed. When Ghost Dog’s code is dangerously betrayed by the dysfunctional mafia family that occasionally employs him, he reacts strictly in accordance with The Way Of The Samurai.
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Actors
- : Louie
- : Ghost Dog
- : Raymond
- : Sonny Valerio
- : le vieux consigliere
- : Vargo
- : Handsome Frank
- : Louise Vargo
- : Pearline
- : Vinny
- : Louie
- : le vieux consigliere
- : Vargo
- : Handsome Frank
- : Louise Vargo
- : Ghost Dog
- : Pearline
- : Vinny
- : Raymond
- : Sonny Valerio
Film Crew
- : Jay Rabinowitz
- : Ted Berner
- : RZA
- : Plywood
- : Robby Müller
- : Jim Jarmusch
- : Jim Jarmusch
- : Chic Ciccolini
- : John A. Dunn
- : Bac Films
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- Couleur
- English
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Guided by the words of an ancient Samurai text, Ghost Dog is a professional killer able to dissolve into the night and move through the city unnoticed.-
You don't normally think of lumbering Forest Whitaker as the stealthy assassin type. But here he plays an elegant hitman, trying to stay true to ancient Japanese codes of warrior honour. Showing mercy to a witness to one of his hits, however, sets him at odds with the ageing mafiosos who employ him. As he has done throughout his pioneering independent film career, from Stranger Than Paradise to Dead Man, Jarmusch takes his time. But although the story develops at a pace that can seem slow, it makes sense as you go along. There are typically eccentric Jarmusch touches, like Ghost Dog's best friend being a Haitian ice-cream man (De Bankolé) who speaks no English.
Film 4 -
Jarmusch is mixing styles here almost recklessly and I like the chances he takes. The gangsters sit in their clubhouse doing sub-Scorsese while the Louie character tries to explain to them how he uses an invisible hit man. Ghost Dog, meanwhile, mopes sadly around the neighborhood, solemnly recommending Rashomon to a little girl and miscommunicating with the ice cream man. If the mobsters are on one level of reality and Ghost Dog on another, then how do we interpret some of the Dog's killings, particularly the one where he shoots a man by sneaking under his house and firing up through the lavatory pipe while the guy is shaving? Jarmusch seems to have directed with his tongue in his cheek, his hand over his heart, and his head in the clouds. The result is weirdly intriguing.
Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun Times
