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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #896
- IMDb #1082
- Google retired #1990
- Rotten Tomatoes #1096
- Metacritic #1357
- Letterboxd #458
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1667
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1016
- Metacritic Critics #1649
- Metacritic Audience #937
- Douban #975
- Kinopoisk #743
- AlloCiné #1442
- Trakt #1596
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 68, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 86.
See the most agreed on films →A solitary hitman living in an unnamed city meticulously follows the ancient code of the samurai, Bushido. He carries out contracts for a low-level mobster who once saved his life, considering him his master. When a job goes wrong and he becomes a target of the entire Italian mafia, he must use his unique skills and philosophy to methodically face the coming conflict, honoring the code until the very end.
Details
- Director
- Jim Jarmusch
- Writer
- Jim Jarmusch
- Studio
- JVC, Bac Films, Pandora Film, Plywood Productions
- Released
- 6 October 1999
- Country
- France, Germany, Japan, United States
- Language
- English, French
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $2.0M
- Box office
- $9.4M
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Cast
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Awards
1 win & 8 nominations total
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