Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Ghost dog (Motion picture : 1999)

Title:

Ghost dog [videorecording] : the way of the samurai / JVC, Le Studio Canal+ and BAC Films present, in association with Pandora Film and Ard/Degeto Film, a Plywood Production, a film by Jim Jarmusch.

Publisher, Date:

Santa Monica, CA : Artisan Entertainment : Artisan Home Entertainment, c2000.

Description:

1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Ghost Dog is a samurai disciple, and for ten years the devoted retainer to an aging mafia foot soldier named Louie. When one of Ghost Dog's contract murders goes wrong ₇ the don's daughter is a witness ₇ her father, decides that to save face, he must have the killer "neutralized." The rest of the film follows Ghost Dog's calculated efforts to survive, as he takes out the gang members while attempting to maintain his ceremonious, mutually respectful relationship with Louie.

Target Audience Note:

Rated R (violence, language).

Subjects:

Murder for hire -- Drama.

Bushido -- Drama.

Samurai -- Conduct of life -- Drama.

Gangsters -- Conduct of life -- Drama.

Mafia -- United States -- Drama.

Crime.

Gangster films.

Other Author:

Jarmusch, Jim, 1953-

Guay, Richard A.

Whitaker, Forest.

Tormey, John.

Gorman, Cliff.

Silva, Henry, 1926-2022

Bankolé, Isaach de.

Vessey, Tricia, 1972-

Viverito, Vince.

Winbush, Camille.

J.V.C. Company of America.

Studio Canal+.

B.A.C. Films.

Plywood Productions.

Artisan Entertainment (Firm)

Artisan Home Entertainment (Firm)

Other Title:

Way of the samurai.

Notes:

Special features: Deleted footage; 30 minute special feature "The Odyssey: Journey Into the Life of a Samurai"; music video; isolated music score by hip-hop group The Wu-Tang Clan's The RZA; 16:9 widescreen format; trailers and TV spots; cast and crew information.

Originally issued as a motion picture in 1999.

Edited by Jay Rabinowitz ; produced by Richard Guay & Jim Jarmusch ; written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.

Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Cliff Gorman, Henry Silva, Isaach De Bankol, Tricia Vessey, Vince Viverito, Camille Winbush.

DVD, Dolby digital stereo.

ISBN:

0784017417

9780784017418

Publisher Number:

11489

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

142736

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Ghost do

Medium:

[videorecording]