Jarmusch’s legendary comedy, black in every sense of the word, about honour, style and hip-hop.
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
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28 Feb 2024
- Age restrictions
- 18+
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
1999, Jim Jarmusch
United States
116 minutes, English with Russian subtitles
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Isaach De Bankolé, John Tormey, Cliff Gorman
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A heavy, lonely black man hardly speaks to anyone, lives in a rooftop dovecote, carries a copy of Hagakure and respects the code of samurai honour above all else, even when working as a hitman for the Italian mobster who once saved his life.
Shot from Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, 1999
What might sound like an ordinary gangster picture is in fact a rich amalgam of crisscrossing genres, where East meets West and culture itself follows more than one Way.
— Anton Bitel, Little White Lies
25 years ago, Ghost Dog was hailed as one of the best films of Jarmusch and the 1990s in general, and time has only added to its cult status. The director reinvents the mafia film genre with hip-hop and Japanese stoicism, achieving personal heights of irony.
At the screening on 28 February, the film will be presented by Denis Ruzaev, curator of the
