SPOILER ALERT: Link to actual movie (1987), as of April 2015, AND link to new statue that includes owner, too!! (at Tokyo University)
In July '14, one Hachiko film fan posted this link to YouTube, so you may watch the original Japanese version of the film (1987) with English sub-titles. (Running time: 1h 48 min) This is only meant to be a "stand-in" (as the person who posted the video states) until a DVD or streaming version of the original Japanese film is commercially-available (like Amazon streaming, Netflix, etc.), thus is only for "personal use". Apparently very difficult to find any commercially-available versions of this film in original Japanese (w/sub-titles).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfvZuiZPAxM
BONUS: there's a NEW version of the Hachiko statue, in which he is finally re-united with his original master, Prof. Hidesaburo Ueno, a professor of Agricultural Engineering for 20+ yrs, at University of Tokyo in Bunkyo-ku (formerly known as "Imperial University" when Prof. Ueno taught there). Here's a link to some pictures submitted in Mar'2015 by someone living in Japan: tokyofox.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/new-hachiko-statue-in-tokyo/
In case you visit Tokyo (since it has several campuses), the blogger clarifies that the statue's on your LEFT as soon as you enter the University through the gates of the "Graduate School of Agriculture" & "Life Sciences/Faculty of Agriculture".
Enjoy & keep a box of tissues handy!
In July '14, one Hachiko film fan posted this link to YouTube, so you may watch the original Japanese version of the film (1987) with English sub-titles. (Running time: 1h 48 min) This is only meant to be a "stand-in" (as the person who posted the video states) until a DVD or streaming version of the original Japanese film is commercially-available (like Amazon streaming, Netflix, etc.), thus is only for "personal use". Apparently very difficult to find any commercially-available versions of this film in original Japanese (w/sub-titles).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfvZuiZPAxM
BONUS: there's a NEW version of the Hachiko statue, in which he is finally re-united with his original master, Prof. Hidesaburo Ueno, a professor of Agricultural Engineering for 20+ yrs, at University of Tokyo in Bunkyo-ku (formerly known as "Imperial University" when Prof. Ueno taught there). Here's a link to some pictures submitted in Mar'2015 by someone living in Japan: tokyofox.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/new-hachiko-statue-in-tokyo/
In case you visit Tokyo (since it has several campuses), the blogger clarifies that the statue's on your LEFT as soon as you enter the University through the gates of the "Graduate School of Agriculture" & "Life Sciences/Faculty of Agriculture".
Enjoy & keep a box of tissues handy!