Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

“Live by the code. Die by the code.”

In a run-down American city at the turn of the millennium, Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) lives alone and follows the warrior code laid out in the Hagakure, the recorded sayings of the samurai Yamamoto Tsunetomo. He works as a hitman for the mob, answering to a single mobster named Louie (John Tormey) and to no one else. Jim Jarmusch sets him against a Mafia family that has now marked him for death, and the code is all he has to meet them with.