A Review on Hachiko: A Dog’s Story

Orientation tells Hachiko: A Dog’s Story is sad family film Social Function : To
the background from America distributed by Stage 6 Films. It critique artworks
information of is directed by Lasse Hallstrom and written by (films, novels, songs,
movie. Stephen P. Lindsey. The film stars Richard TV shows or
Gere, Joan Allen, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, movies) for a public
Sarah Roemer, Jason Alexander, Erick Avari, audience
and Jan A.P. Kaczmarek as the main leads,
while Hachiko is played by three Akita Inu
named Chico, Layla, and Forrest. All three
play different periods of Hachiko's life. The
film was based on true story in Japanese.
Hachiko: A Dog’s Story was released in
theaters on June 8, 2009. The film takes the
theme of dog’s loyalty to his owner.
Interpretative The story begins when Parker finds Language Elements :
recount tells the a small akita dog, a pure Japanese breed, that 1. The simple
plot/synopsis/su fell from the delivery tub at the Bedridge present tense
mmary of the station, Wonsocked, United States. A place 2. Compound
story where Parker usually crosses to go home and sentence
work. Because of pity, Parker takes him to the 3. Complex
house while trying to find the poor dog sentence
master. Parker then gives the dog name, in 4. Compound-
accordance with the writings on the colar complex
which is used by the dog. The dog’s name is sentence
Hachi (8 in Japanese, which means lucky).
After days, he can’t find the owner of the dog
and Parker's wife, Cate Wilson (Joan Allen)
intends to sell it. However, seeing the
togetherness and familiarity of Hachi and
Parker, Cate abandoned her intentions and is
now raising Hachi with Parker and her
daughter, Andy Wilson (Sarah Roemer), into
adulthood.
One day, a mature Hachi is waiting
for Parker outside Bedbridge station. Parker is
so happy to see Hachi that is waiting for him.
Since then, Hachi has always been waiting for
Parker after work in front of the Station. Until one day, Hachi has different beha
Until one day, Hachi has different behavior.
He who usually never wanted to take the ball
that was thrown by Parker, now instead, do
the opposite. But, it is too late, Hachi's trick to
block Parker from going to work is
unsuccessful, Parker finally departs. After a
while Parker works, "news" is revealed.
Parker who is teaching art at the University
suddenly falls, he has a heart attack and dies
instantly. It turns out that Parker has heart
disease, Hachi tries to warn Parker but he
does not know. In the afternoon, Hachi waits
for Parker at the station, but until 17:00 he has
not seen Parker at all. He does not know that
Parker has died.
After Parker's death, Cate Wilson
sells his home and Hachi lives with Andy
Wilson and her husband. Hachi repeatedly
goes to the station to wait for his master but
the result remains the same. He does not get
his master at all. Until one day Andy gives up
on chasing Hachi. Finally she lets Hachi go.
The seasons change and keep changing. Hachi
is waiting and waiting for someone whom he
loves so much, but will never come back.
Until a media publishes Hachi's loyalty story
in the newspaper. Cate Wilson who heard the
story of Hachi wants to see Hachi right away.
She is deeply moved by Hachi's loyalty to his
master.
 Until 10 years after Parker's death,
Hachi falls ill. And finally, he died. In his
dream before he died, he found his master. He
immediately hugged his master and his master
looked happy to see Hachi.
Evaluation The director succeed in wrapping the Reviewer’s
states the touching true story of Hachiko into this film. judgment.
judgment, Not only that, the dialogues in this film is not
opinions about hard to understand and not too heavy. The
the director, image of Hachi who is very loyal to his
performances of master is described very well in the film. The
the main actors, way Hachi expresses his sadness during his
the plot, the waiting for his master is really touching, the
theme, the dog succeed in conveying the emotions. With
dialogues and not really complicated and understandable
comparison with plot, the director succeed in making a
another similar touching film.
artworks. It may But, there are some minus in this film.
consist of more For example, the use of setting of place. The
than one film tends to use the setting of around the
paragraph. house until the station, which is really
monotonous. There are also some boring
scenes which are not really important for the
film. And in the ending scene, it is like it’s
not prepared enough so it looks forced.
Despite the lacks of the film, there are
many messages that we can get from this film.
Evaluative Hachiko: A Dog’s Story is a must-see Recommendation to
summation film. This film is suitable for any age. Despite see the film.
states final the boring scenes in the film, there will be
opinions about some interesting surprises as the plot Appraisal for the
recommendation progresses. And also, the music in the film film.
and appraisal or titled “Goodbye” will surely make your heart
punch line of the aches. Hachi the dog will make anyone who
movie. hates dogs come to love them, and any respect
them, and any other animals. For people who
like this kind of genre, this is a worth film to
watch but if you don’t like this kind of movie,
it is better not to watch them. But, it’s not
wrong to watch this kind of movie because
we can get many life lessons and messages
from this movie.