ghost dog

[Bernardi-Buralli]

Just a quick addendum to this thread--
Jarmusch credits Suzuki at the end of the film (I think it's at the end)
along with many others--the sequence I remember that is lifted from BRANDED
TO KILL is the great assassination through the sink drainpipe--the assassin
shoots up through the drain just as the victim is looking down into the
sink. Both versions, Jarmusch and Suzuki's, are pretty extraordinary, and it
was a thrill, for me at least, to see the nod to Suzuki on our local "art
house" screen.

Joanne Bernardi
U of Rochester

> From: Jasper Sharp <j.sharp at publitec.vnu.com>
> Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:10:20 +0100
> To: "'KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu'"<KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> Subject: RE: ghost dog
> 
> I have not seen it, but I have heard on the grapevine that it lifts a
> sequence from 
> Seijun SUZUKI's BRANDED TO KILL - the assination attempt foiled by
> butterfly.
> As for American genre bending, I think the success of CROUCHING TIGER,
> HIDDEN DRAGON 
> all over the world shows that there are an awful lot of people getting sick
> and tired
> of the same old Hollywood product being churned out year after year.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Duncan [mailto:neku78 at hotmail.com]
> Sent: 13 February 2001 18:24
> To: kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: related chanbure-eiga
> 
> 
> Intellecuals,
> As a topic of discussion I'd like to ask if anyone has checked out Jim
> Jarmush's Ghost Dog.  As you may know my hunger for Japanese film is
> pinpointed on Samurai or Chanbura-Eiga films.  I'm fully aware that this
> film is American made.  I personally make no true distiction about where a
> film is released, rather I tend to connect genre's as a whole.  If you've
> seen Ghost, you know what a strange mix of characters this movie contains.
> Forest Whittaker(sp?) plays a great but typical lone-wolf type asassin.  His
> 
> character is definately Samurai, no question.  Yet to offset this, Jarmush
> also presents some very strange mobster-types for comic relief.  I found the
> 
> choice of characters to be a very ballsy move.  Most American Samurai movies
> 
> tend to be extremely generic, for instance check out American Samurai (good,
> 
> but typical).  That's probrobly why I liked this movie so much, it's a great
> 
> break from the regualar trend.  Did anyone else who had a chance to view
> this think along the same lines?  More importantly, is it possible to
> present an original Samurai movie to the American audience?  I know Japan
> has been successful in combining comedy and katana-slashing action, but are
> American audiences ready for this type of genre blending?
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