#The Way of the Samurai

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[ubourgeois]

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) dir. Jim Jarmusch

[gokaiju]

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch, 1999) Alternative Poster by Gokaiju

[waste-it-on-something-useful]

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch, 1999)

[oldgamemags]

EGM #157, August 2002 - Review of 'The Way Of The Samurai'.

[tle13]

[clemsfilmdiary]

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999, Jim Jarmusch)

6/24/22

[vintagewarhol]

[lacalaveracatrina]

Song and video editing by EKA. Footage from "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai" directed by Jim Jarmusch (1999)

[iliketigers]

[aquilaofarkham]

actually this is peak female character design

[earl-of-221b]

I can’t explain what blue eye samurai makes me feel…….its a typical revenge story, a man sets out on his hero’s journey to kill the four men who have wronged him. A lone ronin, wide brimmed hat and sword in hand, roaming Edo Japan on his vendetta. But he’s not a man. He’s a woman. And how has he been wronged? What’s she getting revenge on?

On the fact that she exists. She wants revenge on the four white men that could possibly have conceived her. Who got her Japanese mother pregnant with a blue-eyed child. And not just any blue-eyed child, but a girl child. How is she possibly supposed to live in the world like that? For the wrong of being conceived, for the wrong of being born, for the wrong of being birthed into a world that will never love or accept her, she will kill her father.

I don’t know what level of convoluted self hate that is. Is she a child of rape? Or a child of a whore? Halfway through I realise what she told herself at the start couldn’t possibly be true - it’s not really for her mother. Her mother wasn’t the root of her vendetta, she wasn’t really doing it for her. When she leaves that farm and leaves the chance to live a simple, legitimate life as a woman, she goes right back to hunting down the men. Those men personally wronged her.

And then there’s so much to be discussed surrounding the way she grew up, because as a boy child and a man she can afford so much more than life has dealt her. Her swordfather who took her in out of the love and care in his heart had no shame in teaching a mixed man his art. The face of a ‘demon’ is fine. But not the identity of a woman. Shh. Don’t say it. Don’t confess. He knows and doesn’t want to hear it.

And because she’s lived that way her entire life for safety and security, she’s so completely alienated from being a woman, perhaps she really is he. But not really by choice. Or is it? The thing she does best is the art of killing, the art of men. Gender is a prison and gender is a performance and she has to choose which to perform. The times cannot reconcile hatred and violence with a woman. So she lives as a man.

So she can get revenge on her father, for revenge on herself.

[yhwcomeback]

The Master of Water. "Ninjago Nya the Master of Water" Poster for Sale by Yhwcomeback | Redbubble

[waste-it-on-something-useful]

Billie Bob - Bobby's - Bob

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch, 1999)

Billie Bob Thornton appeared in Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man (1995) and Jarmusch appeared in Thornton's Sling Blade (1996).

Maybe 'Bobby's' is also a nod to RZA (real name: Robert Diggs) and his alter ego Bobby Digital, which he originated in 1998 with the studio album Bobby Digital in Stereo.

Jarmusch named Bob Solo after two Harrison Ford characters in George Lucas films, Bob Falfa from American Graffiti (1973) and Han Solo from Star Wars.

[stankworth]

after many years of being strong // may you have the chance to be gentle again

[aye-of-newt]

you can tell mizu was raised by an old man from the absolutely everything about them and I deeply love that