The Movie Ghost Dog (Whitaker) is a pretty weird dude. He is a hit man, employed by the Mafia, who raises carrier pigeons and follows the ancient code of the Samurai, except he uses guns with ...

A cat village is in danger and an unexpected hero emerges to help them: a dog named Hank! (Paramount pictures) The samurai dog, as the name implies, has as its protagonist an unlucky dog named Hank.

the wannabe samurai dog, from the execution line and sends him over with a hastily engraved “samurai cup,” expecting the locals to off him. The film replaces the racial commentary of ...

That’s particularly true of Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), his urban samurai mob movie classic, which plays at the Hollywood Theatre on Feb. 25. A film that fascinated movie fans by ...

The self-made samurai is Forest Whitaker’s Ghost Dog, rescued in his youth by minor mafioso Louie (John Tormey), to whom he’s gratefully sworn his fealty. Louie uses G-Dog as an ...

Eventually, the mobsters find Ghost Dog’s pigeons while he’s away and they murder them. This puts them in his sights, and he delivers a message from the Hagakure (the book of the samurai by Yamamoto ...