Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Branded to Kill

See Jarmusch's samurai/gangster film Ghost Dog, paired with the pop-surrealist hit-man film that inspired it, Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill.

Forest Whitaker stars as a philosophical hit-man in Jarmusch's Ghost Dog, which coolly mixes and matches the values of hip-hop culture with French noir films and the Samurai code of honor. With a propulsive soundtrack by Wu-Tang's RZA. (1999; 116 mins.)

Jarmusch calls Branded to Kill "the ultimate Î60s Japanese hit-man movie, with touches of total surrealism and some of the most sophisticated use of wide-screen composition in the history of cinema." (1967; 91 mins.)