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A boy is saved by a mob man, and becomes an assassin as repayment only to become embroiled in the crime world.

Gentle and moody. A little cheesy and a little lame, but I still like it a lot.

• Trailer

• Properly titled Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

See also:

• Le Samouraï – (1967 movie)

• 2023-07-29

• Watched at least twice before; no notes were taken.

2023-07-29 ∞

• 3:00 —

  • Bushido – (1924 book), by Minoru Tanaka
  • Hagakure Kikigaki Koho [ 1 ] (~1716 compilation of narrations) of Yamamoto Tsunetomo (previously Yamamoto Jōchō), recorded by Tsuramoto Tashiro.
• 3:00 — Narration.
• 5:30 — Notice the way he was moving through people.
• 7:00 — Well someone parked a nice car in a bad neighborhood..
• 7:15 — Unrealistic; it’s a black guy in a fancy car. That seems like resisting arrest in 1999.

• 13:30 —

  • Betty Boop
  • Rashomon and Other Stories – (1952 book), by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  • ISBN 0-8048-1457-0 – ISBN 978-0-8048-1457-7
    — Confirmed at 18:15
  • See also Rashōmon – (1950 movie), which is based on In a Grove – (1922 short story)
• 14:30 — Maintain eye contact to assert dominance.
• 14:45 — That was racist.
• 15:45 — samurai

• 16:45 —

  • Domestic pigeon
  • Homing pigeon
  • Pigeon post
  • Fax
• 19:30 — He knows exactly where that note has been.

• 21:00 — So much for urgency.

  • 23:15 — Established here.
• 23:00 — Nabeshima Naoshige
• 27:45 — Passenger pigeon

• 31:00 —

  • Snoop Dogg
  • Ice Cube
  • Q-Tip (musician)
  • Method Man
  • Flavor Flav
  • Public Enemy
  • Cold Lampin’ with Flavor
• 34:00 — Calcium

• 37:30 —

  • The Wind in the Willows – (1908 book), by Kenneth Grahame
  • The Souls of Black Folk – (1903 book), by W. E. B. Du Bois
  • “In the evening – he’d receive a call from the… NIGHT NURSE” is a fictional book.
  • Frankenstein – (1818 book), by Mary Shelley
  • Frankenstein (1931 film)
• 38:45 — Reading – Narration

• 41:00 —

  • Chocolate ice cream
  • French language
  • Spanish language
• 44:15 — Cayuga people
• 51:00 — Why did he throw the gun away?
• 1:00:30 — Felix the Cat
• 1:10:00 — They’d notice the plates switched because it’s such a big difference. Then they would call it in.
• 1:11:15 — Woody Woodpecker
• 1:14:45 — God damn that was some terrible “action”.
• 1:15:00 — I don’t know what cartoon that is.
• 1:21:00 — Gestapo

• 1:24:30 —

  • Haitians
  • Tailor, “taking in the sides”
• I forgot to mention Briefcase and Lunchbox
• 1:36:00 — Sugar
• 1:40:00 — Crime boss
• 1:45:30 — Well seeing as he’s a witness to a crime he’ll definitely be up for deportation if he’s there illegally. I mean back then they used to deport people who were there illegally.

• 1:46:00 — She grows up to be an assassin. See The Professional – (1994 movie)

Footnotes

1. Literally “the writings that were heard”. [ ↩ ]