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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 samurai action film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. The film was shot mostly in Jersey City, NJ, but the movie never mentions where the story is set. License plates reveal it is in "The Industrial State." Forest Whitaker stars as the title character, the mysterious "Ghost Dog", an African American hitman in the employ of the Mafia, and who follows the ancient code of the samurai as outlined in the book of Yamamoto Tsunetomo's recorded sayings,... full article at wikipedia
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  • May 18, 1999
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  • Live by the code. Die by the code.
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  • 116.0 min
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  • 2,000,000.0
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  • 60000429
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