Hachi - A Dog's Tale [Blu-ray]

I pride myself on not really being a crier when watching your usual tear jerkers - you know the ones, Ghost, Marley and me, Titanic. So I settled down to enjoy this with my 9 year old daughter for a pleasant sunday sofa day. Well, she started sobbing about 25 minutes in and I have to say I had a bit of a lump in my throat, but being a PG I assured her it will get more cheerful further on. No, what it did was pull us both in to a journey of heartache and pain and by two thirds of the way in I just let it all go - tears poured down our faces unchecked, we both openly sobbed and snotted our way up to the end. My eyelids looked like fat slugs for the rest of the day. Just when I thought my daughter couldn't cry any harder, the credits remind you it's based on a true story. It is a great film - highly recommend it.

I bought this for my Mum for Christmas because she loves dog films, I chose it based on the large amount of positive reviews. I was very confident that this would be an entertaining film that everyone would like. I was very wrong.The films main problem is lack of any story except the obvious one. some sub plots would have been very welcomed. The main story is ( and this should not spoil anything if you have read the dvd cover ) Richard Gear has a dog, the dog follows him each morning to the train station and see's him off to work, he then waits for him when he comes off the train. Richard dies, the dog carries on the tradition until it dies. there is absolutley no other meaningful story or plot, there are plenty of pointless scenes however which lead nowhere.The music is also dreadfull and just clutters scenes with noise, it does not relate in any way with what is going on.Buy it if you like Richard gear and dogs. Don't buy if you like films

I found and watched this film on Sky over a year ago, and whilst it looked like it might just be an average film as there was not a lot less to watch, so sat and watched it. By the end I was totally totally in tears.We have had many rescue woofers over the years, so for me having watched this, I just had to get a copy for my Wife, and for a friend of ours who had to say goodbye to her pusscat Chelsea on this Christmas eve morning.This film has never ever received the acclaim that it truly deserved, and it is so relevant to any woofer or pussycat owner who has said goodbye to a very close companion. It is also based on a true incident in Japan in the 1920'sAs a warning, you will need a shedload of tissues to watch this right thro to the end, but it is well worth it. SO GET THIS.

A simple, yet beautiful film based on the true story of the noble and honourable Japanese Akita Inu called Hachiko that finds his soul mate in a chance encounter with a man he was never destined for.Proof once again, that humans often do not deserve dogs and their unlimited and unconditional love for their owners.As an aside note: Please do not run out and buy an Akita Inu or a Shiba Inu without first understanding how unique, often difficult and passionate/stubborn these breeds can be. They require a lot of work and time and patience. If you cannot offer that. Get a different breed or a goldfish.

I teared up over this movie. It was well acted showing family relationships and consideration of others feelings and interests. It teaches 'people understanding' the relationship between humans and animals, especially taming animals and what we lack when we do it. If you decide to tame an animal, you are treating it as a human being and therefore you have a duty to see to its needs, which is very good in this film. But, other family members have to understand the animal as well and see to its needs. There is nothing like hurting and loneliness in a world full of people. Animal therapy, if there is such a thing, could help in some extreme situations. Well tamed animals in the end become less animal and more human, in my opinion and so deserve to be part of family. The movie also shows how even outsiders, at a time of need, can care from a distance and leave the vulnerable, in this case animal, to carry the burden of loss on their own.I don't own an animal pet, but I could imagine, would taking the dog to hospital grounds or funerals where they can see the picture of their loved one in a coffin and then the coffin being lowered make a whole lot difference? and then to an animal therapist to deal with loss? It just hurt so much to see anyone or animal suffer loss to such a point like that! Anyone right from the outsiders could have taken over with the help of the dog therapy, and also adoption could have intervened maybe?, a new place out of town?I would take the animal to the grave to see the coffin being lowered.Given its based on a true story make it hurt more!

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that if you are watching a dog picture and you cry at sad movies then you either avoid dog movies or have a box of tissues at the ready. I knew the true story of Hachiko and I had wanted to watch the film with Richard Gere for a while. It is obviously a family film so though there are sad scenes there is an element of restraint in the story, mainly because of the knowledge children will be watching it. For me the restraint marred the story-line a little and I thought the scenes of the years passing while Hachi waited was poorly done. I watched this story with my granddaughter and I had to explain these parts to her. My only other disappointment is cried like a baby but my 6 year old granddaughter was dry-eyed and laughing... not a weepie lover like her Granny