I kept my eyes focused on the point where I had seen the little ghost dog leave the road. (tulsapetsmagazine.com)
The key texts in Ghost Dog are Yamamoto Tsunetomo's Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai (an 18th - century warrior text), Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Rashomon and Other Stories (an early - 20th - century collection), Mary Shelley's 19th - century Frankenstein, and an undated French book about bears. (chicagoreader.com)
Chapter 3, «Film noir style and the arts of dying», charts the development of noir «style» and the cross-pollination between cultures and cinemas with particular emphasis on the relationship between key hitman noir films such as Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967), Le samouraï (Jean - Pierre Melville, 1967) and The Killer (John Woo, 1989) before concluding with an analysis of Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch, 1999). (sensesofcinema.com)