In June 2020, the Criterion Collection invited fans to send in questions about GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI for director Jim Jarmusch to answer. The questions came in from cities around the world.
This conversation among actors Forest Whitaker and Isaach De Bankolé is moderated by film scholar Michael B. Gillespie, author of “Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film,” and was recorded using an online video-conference-call application in summer 2020.
In this interview, recorded in 2020, casting director Ellen Lewis discusses the process of finding actors for GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI.
This program documenting the making of GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI was produced in 2000.