Objectively speaking, the film is a remake-and that's one strike against it at the onset. But, there needs to be more than a cute dog to make a really good film-and currently this fame has an astonishingly high score of 8.2! Is this number, at least in part, less about the quality of the production and more a vote to signify that most everyone loves cute dogs? Well, yes. You cannot help but like the dog and enjoy seeing him interact with his owner (Richard Gere).
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I am a sucker for a film about a cute dog-and the Hachi in the movie is one of the cutest Akita's ever (much cuter, by the way, than the original Hachi). Why not just make a fictionalized story? Why keep a few details and change others-especially when this Japanese dog inexplicably shows up in Rhode Island! So does this lack of attention to detail mean I hate the film? Even as a retired history teacher, I cannot, as I must confess that I've owned dogs for years and currently have two massive hairy beasts who adore me (in addition to my two cats who alternate between adoration and ambivalence). This leads me to wonder WHY the film did a semi-remake. In fact, I did some reading and found several other similar accounts throughout the world. One thing that set him apart from most dogs was that Hachi would meet the professor at the train station after work each day! But, even more unusual is that after the professor's death, Hachi CONTINUED this routine-waiting patiently for his master every day! In many ways, the story is like that of the very famous Scottish dog, Greyfriars Bobby-who is memorialized in Edinburgh outside the pub and church where the do would do its daily ritual (lying at his master's grave and then visiting the pub). Back in the 1920s and 30s, the real Hachi was a dog owned by a Japanese professor. Oddly, however, this American version keeps SOME of the original Japanese story (such as the breed of dog, the dog's name and SOME of the events in the dog's life) and completely changes so much-especially since "Hachi-Ko" is based on a real life Japanese occurrence, not in America.
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"Hachi: A Dog's Tale" is a remake of a Japanese film, "Hachi-Ko" (1987).