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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warrior Poet" data-source="post: 2309480" data-attributes="member: 1057">Several have already mentioned Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and I second this.I'd also like to add pretty much the whole rest of director Jim Jarmusch's catalog, including the following standouts:Down By Law - This is a great film, and one of the ways Jarmusch shows he's a master of black-and-white film photography.  Stars John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, and Tom Waits, as three hard-luck cases thrown together in the same New Orleans jail cell.  It's fascinating, and funny, and tragic, all at once.Dead Man - I love westerns, and frankly, this may just be the coolest western I've ever seen, and it's like no other western I've ever seen.  It's certainly in my top ten, probably number 2 after the Holy Trinity (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly) which together I place at number 1.  Anyway, Dead Man is so wonderful and strange and otherworldy and gritty and magical and earthy and dark and funny and complex and lyrical and violent and mysterious that it just soars.  The film is awesome, and proves that sometimes, all you need for a soundtrack is Neil Young and his Gibson Les Paul.  This movie rocks.I'll also second barsoomcore's mention of Drunken Master II, and add to it the first one, Drunken Master.  Even if you're not a Jackie Chan fan, these films are awesome.  Frankly, the possibility of human movement illustrated by these films is astonishing.  I thought the coolest martial arts I'd ever seen were in Drunken Master.  Then I saw Drunken Master II.  Jaw-dropping.Warrior Poet</blockquote>

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