Never used his sword .....The Way of the Samurai ?????????
Just say'n......He has a sword but you only see it in one scene ?????
http://youtu.be/iDiwoKOD8hA .
http://youtu.be/9WNPorqIyD8 .
Well, if he stood around waving a sword against a bunch of mobsters armed with pistols and sawed off shotguns. I don't think he'd live very long to become the legend of Ghost Dog.
Didn't you notice how he's swing his pistol around just like a sword just before he'd holster it. It thought that was symbolic enough to infer that his pistol was his essentially his "modern sword." Much like the film Romeo+Juliet (1996) where everyone called their pistols swords.
Then why have the scene in the movie... I only recall seeing the sword once in that scene.
How about Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) I recall more than one scene in that movie had a sword in it... Similar themes in that movie too. More so than Romeo+Juliet .
http://youtu.be/iDiwoKOD8hA .
http://youtu.be/9WNPorqIyD8 .
It's been a while but IIRC he was simply practicing with his sword on the roof. Despite what we see on movies becoming a good swordsman is an art and a discipline. It's also one of those calming spiritual types of things because in the moment of swinging your sword you are supposed to be at one with it and oblivious to everything outside of you, the sword and the target.
My guess is the scene was to show his connection to the way of the samurai.