Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Martial Arts, Thriller
Cast: Forest Whitaker
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 internationally co-produced martial arts crime thriller drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. Forest Whitaker stars as the title character, the mysterious "Ghost Dog", a hitman in the employ of the Mafia, who follows the ancient code of the samurai as outlined in the book of Yamamoto Tsunetomo's recorded sayings, Hagakure. Critics have noted similarities between the movie and Jean-Pierre Melville's 1967 film Le Samouraï.