Hachiko monogatari (1987)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

Seijirô Kôyama

Writer:

Kaneto Shindô (writer)

Release Date:

1 August 1987 (Japan)

Plot:

The true story about a dog's loyalty to its master, even after his death |

Plot Keywords:

Loyalty | Dog | Japanese | Tokyo | Tearjerker

Awards:

2 wins & 4 nominations

Cast

Masumi Harukawa	...	Okichi
Hisashi Igawa	...	Maekawa
Saburo Ishikura	...	Machida
Mako Ishino	...	Chizuko Ueno
Shigeru Izumiya	...	Yasui
Hairi Katagiri	...	Oyoshi, maid
Tokiko Kato	...	Tamiko
Yoshi Kato	...	Kondo
Shirô Kishibe	...	Customer
Norihei Miki	...	Owner at inn
Hiroyuki Nagato	...	Kiku-san
Tatsuya Nakadai	...	Shujiro Ueno
Toshinori Omi	...	Ogata
Kin Sugai	...	Owner's wife at inn
Choei Takahashi	...	Kanze
Takahiro Tamura	...	Furukawa
Taiji Tonoyama	...	Hashimoto
Kumeko Urabe	...	Tabacco shop owner
Kaoru Yachigusa	...	Shizuko Ueno
Kei Yamamoto	...	Serizawa
Shingo Yamashiro	...	Tome-san
Toshirô Yanagiba	...	Moriyama

Also Known As:

Hachi-ko (USA)

Runtime:

Japan:107 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Mandarin | Japanese

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:L | South Korea:All

Company:

Mitsui Company Ltd.

Movie Connections:

Remade as Hachiko: A Dog's Story (2009)

Hachi

Last night I watched a DVD called Hachi-ko....

I cried so many times in the movie and I loved the background aspects of the Japanese life of the time, as well.

I felt moved to seek further information and found this.............

found at http://smt.blogs.com/mari_diary/2005/04/a_royal_dog_in_.html

.............I will tell about Hachiko today. Hachi was born in Akita pref. in 1923. Because of his bent ears, people sometimes get wrong impression that he was a mixed dog, but he was a purebred Akita dog. His owner was a professor of Tokyo university. His house was big and located around area where Tokyu department store is now. He already had a pointer dog named John and another dog S when Hachi came to live his house. John, S and Hachi went to Shibuya station evade to see their owner off in the morning and were there every evening meet him. It seemed the happiest days for dogs. Unfortunately the owner died one year later and his wife and dogs had to leave home to make ends meet. The dogs were taken to different homes with different owners. Mr. Saito who was a member of the Japanese dog Preservation Association, saw Hachiko sometimes and he remembered him as a faithful dog. By the time he discovered poor Hachiko in Shibuya Station, he was already sad shape, dirty pitiful but still waiting for his ex owner. Mr.Saito detailed Hachiko's plight in the newspaper and suddenly Hachiko had became a famous dog in Japan. While he was still alive, his statue was erected and his story was told in primary school textbook. Ha ha Hachiko's tale itself was a pretty good, loyal dog story. But some people's reaction to Hachiko seems a little bit over-the-top actually. Anyway like I wrote in eddoko topic, my grand mom met Hachiko in her school days. Yeah, she said it was a dirty dog. :-). First Hachiko statue was melted once during ww2 to make armaments. The 2nd Hachiko in Shibuya station was recast again after ww2. Ah you can meet real Hachiko in the National Science museum with another famous dog Taro and Jiro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LakIEfEOQSE

and the above clip showing a Spanish person traveling the steps of Hachi to the statue.