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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Prebook 7/18/00; Street 8/15/00
Artisan, Action, Price NA, 'R,' 116 min., PPV 60 days, $3.2 million box office.
Stars Forest Whitaker.
It's difficult to imagine Jim Jarmusch pitching Ghost Dog. After all, how many other films about crazy black samurai hit men are there? Ghost Dog is a genre of one.And a rich genre it is, too.
Ghost Dog (Whitaker) is a mentally disturbed homeless man whose only focus is the Way of the Samurai. After a mobster saves his life, Ghost Dog is bound to him by this code. He becomes a samurai hit...