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Ghost dog [videorecording (DVD)] : the way of the samurai / a film by Jim Jarmusch.

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The Criterion Collection, 2020.

Assassins -- Drama.

Samurai -- Conduct of life -- Drama.

Bushido -- Drama.

Racism -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 1057.

[videorecording (DVD)] :

Director-approved two-DVD special ed.

2 videodiscs (116 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1999.

Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by Jarmusch ; alternate isolated stereo music track ; new Q&A with Jarmusch, in which he responds to questions sent in by fans ; new conversation between actors Forest Whitaker and Isaach De Bankolé, moderated by film scholar Michael B. Gillespie ; new interview with casting director Ellen Lewis ; new interview with Shifu Shi Yan Ming, founder of the USA Shaolin Temple ; Flying birds: the music of “Ghost Dog,” a new video essay on RZA’s score by filmmaker Daniel Raim ; The Odyssey: A journey into the Life of a Samurai, a 2000 program on the making of the film ; deleted scenes and outtakes ; archival interviews ; trailer ; PLUS: Essays by critics Jonathan Rosenbaum and Greg Tate, a 2000 interview with Jarmusch, and quotations from Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, by the early-eighteenth-century monk Yamamoto Tsunetomo.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Directed by Jim Jarmusch.

Forest Whitaker with John Tormey, Cliff Gorman, Henry Silva, Isaach Bankolé, Tricia Vessey, Victor Argo, Gene Ruffini, Richard Portnow and Rza.

"Jim Jarmusch combined his love for the ice-cool crime dramas of Jean-Pierre Melville and Seijun Suzuki with the philosophical dimensions of samurai mythology for an eccentrically postmodern take on the hit-man thriller. In one of his defining roles, Forest Whitaker brings a commanding serenity to his portrayal of a Zen contract killer working for a bumbling mob outfit, a modern man who adheres steadfastly to the ideals of the Japanese warrior code even as chaos and violence spiral around him. Featuring moody cinematography by the great Robby Müller, a sublime score by the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA, and a host of colorful character actors (including a memorably stone-faced Henry Silva), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai plays like a pop-culture-sampling cinematic mixtape built around a one-of-a-kind tragic hero."--Container.

Gangster films.

Martial arts films.

Experimental films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Jarmusch, Jim, 1953-

Whitaker, Forest.

Tormey, John, 1937-

Silva, Henry, 1928-

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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