Ghost dog : : the way of the Samurai

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Call Number: DVD Drama Ghost
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

Title from screen credits.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1999.
Wide screen (1.85:1 aspect ratio)
Features: New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Jim Jarmusch; Alternate isolated stereo music track; New Q&A with Jarmusch, in which he responds to questions sent in by fans; New conversation between actors Forest Whitaker and Isaach de Bankolé, moderated by film scholar Michael B. Gillespie; New interview with casting director Ellen Lewis; New interview with Shifu Shi Yan Ming, founder of the USA Shaolin Temple; Flying Birds: the Music of 'Ghost Dog,' a new video essay on RZA's score by filmmaker Daniel Raim; The Odyssey: a Journey Into the Life of a Samurai, a 2000 program on the making of the film; Deleted scenes and outtakes; Archival interviews; Trailer; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing; Essays by critics Jonathan Rosenbaum and Greg Tate, a 2000 interview with Jarmusch, and quotations from Hagature: the Book of the Samurai, by the early-eighteenth-century monk Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
Forest Whitaker, Cliff Gorman, Henry Silva, Tricia Vessey, Richard Portnow, RZA.
"Jim Jarmusch combined his love for the ice-cold crime dramas of Jean-Pierre Melville and Seijun Suzuki with the philosophical dimensions of samurai mythology for an eccentrically post-modern take on the hit-man thriller. In one of his defining roles, Forest Whitaker brings a commanding serenity to his portrayal of a Zen contract killer working for a bumbling mob outfit, a modern man who adheres steadfastly to the ideals of the Japanese warrior code even as chaos and violence spiral around him. Featuring moody cinematography by the great Robby Müller, a sublime score by the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA, and a host of colorful character actors (including a memorably stone-faced Harry Silva), Ghost Dog: the Way of the Samurai plays like a pop-culture-sampling cinematic mixtape built around a one-of-a-kind tragic hero"--Container.
DVD, NTSC, region 1; wide screen (1.85:1 aspect ratio); 5.1 Dolby surround.

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