One winter morning, Hachi behaves strangely, but then follows Parker to the station with a ball, and, to Parker's delight, fetches it for the first time. Eventually, Andy announces that she is pregnant. When their daughter Andy marries Michael, Hachi is in the family wedding photo. If Hachi fetches, it will be for a special reason. Amused, Ken explains that Akitas cannot be bought. Parker tries in vain to train Hachi to do normal dog things like fetching. A daily routine begins: They walk to the station together, Hachi goes home, and he returns when Parker's train is due, at 5 p.m. The dog somehow knew when Parker was due home. Parker is surprised to find Hachi waiting for him and even more surprised to learn that he has not been waiting all day. That afternoon, Hachi hears the train horn and jumps the fence. He leaves Hachi with Cate and gets the next one. He refuses to go home Parker misses the train. One spring morning, Hachi, now grown, digs under the fence and follows Parker to the station. Parker's wife, Cate, eventually warms to the dog-but Hachi sleeps outside in his own shed. Ken, a Japanese professor friend, tells Parker that the dog is a breed called an Akita and that the Japanese character on his collar tag is the number eight-'hachi'. The puppy remains unclaimed, and the two grow close while he takes it everywhere with him. (The audience sees that it was freighted from a Japanese monastery to the United States and that the basket's tag was torn in transit.) Parker Wilson, a professor of music who commutes to nearby Providence, Rhode Island, finds a lost puppy on the station platform in Bedridge and takes him home for the night. When Ronnie gives a presentation at school about a personal hero, he tells the story of his grandfather and his dog, Hachiko.

theatrical release, bringing the film out on DVD on Ma and eventually selling it to the Hallmark Channel, where it debuted on September 26, 2010. Sony Pictures Entertainment decided to forgo a U.S. By the end of September 2010, the film's foreign box office returns had totalled more than $45 million. The film was given a UK theatrical release on March 12, 2010, courtesy of Entertainment Film Distributors, and opened in more than 60 countries throughout 20. Hachi: A Dog's Tale premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival on June 13, 2009, and its first theatrical release was in Japan on August 8, 2009.

The film stars Gere, Joan Allen, Sarah Roemer, Jason Alexander and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Lindsey and Kaneto Shindo, and produced by Richard Gere, Bill Johnson and Vicki Shigekuni Wong. This version, which places it in a modern American context, was directed by Lasse Hallström, written by Stephen P.

The original film told the true story of the Akita dog named Hachikō who lived in Japan in the 1920s. Hachi: A Dog's Tale is a 2009 American drama film that is an adaptation of the 1987 Japanese film Hachikō Monogatari.

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