Ghost Dog

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.



The film takes place in Jersey City, New Jersey in the present day United States. Forest Whitaker stars as the title character, the mysterious "Ghost Dog", an African American hitman in the employ of the Mafia, and who follows the ancient code of the samurai as outlined in book of Yamamoto Tsunetomo's recorded sayings, Hagakure.