Followed step by step through the ancient traditional spiritual and warrior code teachings within his beloved book, Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo. Ghost Dog repays his debt, with respect to Louie, carrying out contract jobs. Personally indebted to an old Italian gangster called Louie ( John Tormey) for saving his life. A once bruised, battered and bullied kid now filled with a deep honor and a code. Every aspect of this film sweetly, perfectly, just bubbles away. Further that, it features a soundtrack that keeps your head rocking. And somehow it manages to also fuse African American, Italian and Japanese cultures together within it’s narrative. This gangster and hitman drama whole inner essence resembles more of a traditional western. However it features pitch perfect black comedy at every turn. It’s deeply sad in its nature, helped along with Forest’s sorrowful demeanour. Scene to scene it effortlessly portrays style. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is one cool as fuck film. Tagline – All assassins live beyond the law… only one follows the code… No words, just nodding and contemplating. He selects his pre-recorded CDR mixtape and off we cruise through the dark neighborhood. Mister Ghost Dog ( Forest Whitaker) has just jacked a nice slick car for our journey through the City streets.
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