Ghost dog : the way of the samurai
(DVD)

Distributors and distribution dates may vary. Distributed by Lions Gate.

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.

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, the don's daughter is a witness, 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.

Rated R (violence, language).

DVD, Dolby digital stereo.