Warrior Culture in Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Abstract

The thesis contains a comparison between the two conflicting sides of ethics in Jim Jarmusch's film: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999). These two sides are represented in the film by the hitman Ghost Dog and a mafia family. It also contains some biographical information regarding the director and some information on intertextual references about other movies and works of art that appear in the film as well.