Winner of the 1987 Genesis Awards (awarded for films that contribute to the humane treatement of animals).
This is an excellent and tear-jerking Japanese film that dramatizes the story of Hachi-ko, a Japanese Akita dog owned by a Tokyo university professor.
Akitas are wonderful large dogs that are known for their tremendous loyalty to their masters.
This dog escorted his master to the subway station each day, when the professor took a train to the university. The dog would be dutifully waiting for his master to return on the evening train.
When the professor died one day, the dog waited forlornly for his master to return. The dog returned to the station every evening, for over a decade afterwards until the dog finally died of old age and sickness.
There is a statue to Hachiko at Shibuya Train Station. The dog's body was actually preserved and is now in a museum in Tokyo.
This is an excellent and tear-jerking Japanese film that dramatizes the story of Hachi-ko, a Japanese Akita dog owned by a Tokyo university professor.
Akitas are wonderful large dogs that are known for their tremendous loyalty to their masters.
This dog escorted his master to the subway station each day, when the professor took a train to the university. The dog would be dutifully waiting for his master to return on the evening train.
When the professor died one day, the dog waited forlornly for his master to return. The dog returned to the station every evening, for over a decade afterwards until the dog finally died of old age and sickness.
There is a statue to Hachiko at Shibuya Train Station. The dog's body was actually preserved and is now in a museum in Tokyo.