Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 1999 123movies

Watch: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 1999 123movies, Full Movie Online – A hitman who lives by the code of the samurai, works for the mafia and finds himself in their crosshairs when his recent job doesn’t go according to plan. Now he must find a way to defend himself and his honor while retaining the code he lives by..
Plot: An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob. Jarmusch’s spiritual gangster film tells the story of an inner-city hit man (Whitaker) who lives on a rooftop, training himself as a samurai in the strictest sense. He communicates primarily by carrier pigeon, while remaining loyal to a gangster (Tormey) who once saved his life.
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Ratings:

	7.5/10 Votes: 91,843
	83% | RottenTomatoes
	67/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 939 Popularity: 13.866 | TMDB

Reviews:

Out of Character For Jarmusch
Ghost Dog certainly is an intriguing film. It breaks some new ground for writer/director Jim Jarmusch, who usually creates simple, funny, and heartfelt black and white films with many underlying themes. Ghost Dog is one of his few color films, and it is also the most out of character picture he has made to date. Instead of a slow-paced comedic drama, Ghost Dog is a slow-paced bloody crime film.

The plot deals with Ghost Dog (Whitaker), an expert mafia assassin living in present-day New York City who lives his life according to the ancient code of the Samurai.

Jarmusch somewhat reverses what Akira Kurosawa did in Throne of Blood by bringing Eastern culture to a Western setting. It’s a rather fascinating idea, but I can’t help but feel that Jarmusch kind of falls into a trap he teeters on almost constantly in his films: while he’s so busy creating a slow, brooding atmosphere and interweaving subtle underlying themes, he occasionally forgets that this is still a movie. He still needs to keep the audience entertained. Ghost Dog sometimes moves so slowly that one becomes a little bit bored and anxious.

Another thing that doesn’t work particularly well in Ghost Dog are Jarmusch’s signature scenes of off-beat humor that often just come completely out of nowhere. They usually work quite well, such as Iggy Pop’s and Billy Bob Thornton’s blackly funny scene in Dead Man, but they just feel awkward here. E.g., Jarmusch develops a very peculiar group of gangsters in Ghost Dog, gangsters who think they’re straight out of GoodFellas but are so incompetent that they can’t even pay their rent nor figure out who they’re trying to “whack”. This is often quite amusing, but sometimes Jarmusch just goes over the top, such as when he makes one of the fifty-something Italian gangsters begin going on about how he loves rap and even start rapping his favorite verses right in the middle of a meeting of criminals. It’s just uncomfortable.

Still, there’s plenty to like here, and there are quite a few homages for avid film-lovers to spot, such as a cool little nod to the butterfly scene in Seijun Suzuki’s Branded To Kill. Also, the acting is often spot-on. Forest Whitaker is absolutely perfect as Ghost Dog – detached, subtle, nuanced, and, most importantly, human.

Still, I hesitate to recommend this film. Jim Jarmusch is most definitely an acquired taste, but even his fans may find their patience tried during Ghost Dog.

Top-notch
Basically, Jim Jarmush’s best (and most accessible) film; Forrest Whitaker’s best performance (and the best performances by a host of little recognized but worthy character actors), the best sound track, best music from the RZA; – I mean, ’90’s film-making just couldn’t get better than this, and if you’re having trouble understanding this, then read some books and see some movies, because this is a film that does not talk “down” to its audience, but expects us to live up to it.

This is a film about the clash – and potential interweaving – of very different cultures. That the interweavings ultimately become untethered, is solely because we are not yet ready to live up to the promise of being a “multi-cultural” melting-pot that we have always promised ourselves we’d become…. But that doesn’t give us any right to lose hope or stop trying.

Ghost Dog is the spirit of this possible future. We don’t have to have the worst of every culture, we could actually bring together the best.

Magnificently written, shot, performed – and, despite a grim finale, one of the most optimistic films on this topic I’ve ever seen.

It’s a good book – I recommend it.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 56 min (116 min)
Budget 2000000
Revenue 9400000
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Drama
Director Jim Jarmusch
Writer Jim Jarmusch
Actors Forest Whitaker, Henry Silva, John Tormey
Country France, Germany, United States, Japan
Awards 1 win & 8 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm