For the ninth episode of our special retrospective season, we’re looking back to our season on the awesome movie year of 1999 to feature another future cult classic, Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and starring Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Isaach de Bankolé, Henry Silva, Camille Winbush and Tricia Vessey, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai was a minor hit that has become one of Jarmusch’s most acclaimed films.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/ghost-dog-the-way-of-the-samurai-2000), Marjorie Baumgarten in the Austin Chronicle (https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/film/2000-03-24/ghost-dog-the-way-of-the-samurai/), and Wesley Morris in the San Francisco Examiner (https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Cryptic-hip-hop-samurai-story-3069168.php).

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the finale of our retrospective season, featuring Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption, from the winning year of our audience choice poll, 1994.