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The Phantom of Communication: Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog and the Opacity of the Message

Abstract In this article, Jim Jarmusch’s film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) is examined in order to question contemporary media. Jarmusch’s film is interesting for its treatment of communication and the ways it is being shaped by modern media technology. The film is about a contract hit man for the Mafia who lives according to the Way of the Samurai, through which he has established a lifestyle fundamentally at odds with the contemporary mediatised world. Jarmusch appears to view communication as more than transmission of and interaction with information. His film suggests that it occurs in subtleties of gesture and allusion and in what is left unspoken as much, if not more than, in what is fully articulated. From this starting point, the extent to which the contemporary media really comprise means of communication or in fact serve to obscure true communication between people is explored.