Synopsis
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of ancient Japan finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
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Cast
- Forest WhitakerGhost Dog
- John TormeyLouie
- Cliff GormanSonny Valerio
- Dennis LiuChinese Restaurant Owner
- Frank MinucciBig Angie
- Richard PortnowHandsome Frank
- Tricia VesseyLouise Vargo
- Henry SilvaRay Vargo
- Gene RuffiniOld Consigliere
- Frank AdonisValerio's Bodyguard
Recommendations
- 100
Baltimore Sun
A thoroughly absorbing, even transfixing, journey to a future that may already be upon us. - 100
San Francisco Chronicle
Jim Jarmusch has come up with something strange and amazing. - 90
L.A. Weekly
Laced with brilliantly knotted ideas on race, masculinity and cults of violence. - 89
Austin Chronicle
It's the kind of movie you wish you had more time to absorb and could see more than once before reviewing. - 88
New York Daily News
Perversely funny. - 80
Time
Niftily quirky. - 63
USA Today
The movie is still too solemn. - 60
Village Voice
A movie as laconic as its hero, Ghost Dog is nonetheless diminished by its most un-Zen-like attachment to this underlying sentimentality.
