Hachi: A Dog's Tale

This movie is wonderfully written, it's one of my favourite films and I cry each time. Based on a true story of devotion the dog keeps going back to the train station to meet his owner who had a heart attack and died so is obviously he is not coming back, he becomes the train station mascot and people raise funds to help look after the welfare of the dog. it's lovely but you will need plenty of so...

**A cute, sweet and tender film, which imports an originally Japanese story to the USA and which promises to make many children insistently ask their parents for puppies.** I'm not a fan of dogs... in fact, I'm one of those people who never had dogs, and that's why I didn't develop a great admiration for these animals, despite recognizing that they are excellent companions and can make a differ...

Hachi: A Dog's Tale is the rare remake that earns its tears honestly. Lasse Hallstrom takes the real story of Hachiko, the Akita who waited nearly a decade at a Tokyo station for an owner who had already died, and relocates it to small-town America. That move could have flattened the legend. It does not. Richard Gere plays Parker, a music professor who finds an abandoned Akita puppy at the train s...