Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Live by the code. Die by the code.
Country
Production
Budget
$2 000 000
Box office
$9 421 594
Director
Actors
Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Cliff Gorman, Frank Minucci, Richard Portnow, Tricia Vessey, Henry Silva, Gene Ruffini, Frank Adonis, Victor Argo
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Jim Jarmusch, Richard Guay
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Ted Berner
Audition
Ellen Lewis, Laura Rosenthal, Jeanne McCarthy
Editing
Short description
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of ancient Japan finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
What's left behind the scenes
- The club that Ghost Dog pulls up to before stealing the clothes is called Liquid Sword. This is the title of GZA's first album, produced by RZA, who also wrote the original soundtrack for the film and played a camouflage-clad samurai in the finale.
- The scene in which Ghost Dog shoots a gangster through a water pipe is taken from Seijun Suzuki's film 'Born to Kill.'
- When Ghost Dog speaks with the gangsters, he says his name is “Bob Solo”—a combination of the names of two characters played by Harrison Ford: “Bob Falfa” (from *American Graffiti*) and “Han Solo” (from *Star Wars*).
- The club that Ghost Dog drives up to before stealing clothes is called Liquid Sword. This is the title of GZA's first album, which was produced by RZA, who also wrote the original soundtrack to the film and played the camouflage-clad samurai in the finale.
- The heroine watches the 'Itchy & Scratchy' cartoon several times in the car, which is an internal cartoon within the 'Simpsons' series and has never been a standalone work.
- The club that Ghost Dog drives up to before stealing clothes is called "Liquid Sword." "Liquid Swords" is the title of The GZA's first album, produced by RZA, who also wrote the original soundtrack to the film and played a camouflage-clad samurai in the finale.
- The character of Nobody is played by Gary Farmer. Farmer also played the identically named character in the film 'Dead Man'. Moreover, he utters the same phrase: 'Stupid fucking white man'.
- The heroine watches the "Itchy & Scratchy" cartoon several times in the car, which is an "in-universe" cartoon from "The Simpsons" and was never a standalone work.
- Several times in the car, the female character watches the cartoon 'The Itchy & Scratchy Show,' which is a fictional cartoon within 'The Simpsons' series and has never been a standalone production.
- The scene in which Ghost Dog shoots the gangster through the plumbing was taken from Seijun Suzuki’s film *Branded to Kill*.
- The character Nobody is played by Gary Farmer. Farmer also played a character of the same name in the film 'Dead Man.' Furthermore, he says the same phrase: 'Stupid fucking white man.'
- When Ghost Dog speaks with the gangsters, he says his name is Bob Solo—a combination of the names of two characters played by Harrison Ford: Bob Falfa (from 'American Graffiti') and Han Solo (from 'Star Wars').
- The character “Nobody” is played by Gary Farmer. Farmer also played the same character in the film “Dead Man,” and delivers the same line: “Stupid fucking white man.”
- Ghost Dog shoots Frank first in the stomach, then in the chest, and finally in the head. These shots are reminiscent of seppuku—a Japanese ritual suicide in which the first strike with a knife or sword is to the stomach, the second to the chest, and then the person committing suicide lowers their head, and an assistant decapitates them.
- Ghost Dog and Louie have differing recollections of their first meeting. This is a reference to Akira Kurosawa's film "Rashomon," in which people give different accounts of the same event.
- The quotes in the film are taken from Yamamoto Tsunetomo's book "Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai."
- When Ghost Dog talks to the gangsters, he says his name is Bob Solo – a combination of the names of two characters played by Harrison Ford – Bob Falfa (from 'American Graffiti') and Han Solo (from 'Star Wars').
- Each time Ghost Dog gets into a car, he turns on music and sets the volume to 21.
- The scene where Ghost Dog shoots the gangster through the water pipe is taken from Seijun Suzuki's film 'Branded to Kill'.
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