• Worth seeing? • That said, Hachi: A Dog’s Tale is never less than watchable and the story is genuinely moving, thanks to a charming performance from Richard Gere.
总有一天，我们，我们爱的人，都会告别这个人世。有一些会先我而去。而 对于另外的人，我可以先死。 他可以等我，或者不等。他总归可以知道，我是在那里等着他的。等他回家 永远不要忘记你所爱的人。 这是Hachiko教给我的。 水来我在水中等你，火来我在灰烬中等你。 ————洛夫
He can stay there,waiting for me, or he can go. But he will know that I am always there,waiting for him. Waiting for him to go home. Never forget the people you love. Wait for you in the water even water comes,wait for you in the ashes even fire comes.
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
• This is a story between a dog and his host. The college professor Parker Wilson finds a lost puppy at a train station and takes it home, which takes much annoyance to his wife Cate.
• Hachi persisted in waiting for his host, day after day and year after year. Hachi came to the station to wait his host in the day time and sleep under a discarded train at night. The dog moved the people in the train and the people all over the world.It is a real story.
• However, parker and the dog develop such a remarkable bond that Cate is forced to relent and Hachi becomes a devoted member of the family.
• After several months, Parker and Hachi get along very well, they become partners. Every morning, Hachi accompanies Parker to the train station and waits patiently for his return, becoming a regular fixture of Hachi’s life.
• The dog gives us a vivid lesson that we all have to loyal to our family, loyal to family, loyal to our country.
• And it also tells me that never forget those whom you love.
• However, Every day is not Sunday.
• One day, Hachi became abnormal, he barked fiercely and didn’t want to see his host off. At last, Hachi came to the station to see Parker off reluctantly. It was Parker's last time to see Hachi. He was dead because of heart disease.
• The Good • Gere is excellent as Parker, delivering a likeable, warm-hearted performance that is extremely charming. He also creates an onscreen bond with Hachi (played, as usual, by several different dogs) that will melt even the most cynical of hearts. • The dog itself is impossibly cute, especially during the puppy years – if you see the film at the cinema, be prepared to be surrounded by entire roomfuls of people going “Awwww” involuntarily. It's also beautifully shot throughout and there's strong support from Allen, Sarah Roemer (as Parker's grown-up daughter), Jason Alexander (as station master Carl) and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Parker's friend Ken.
• The Bad • The problem is that the story, whilst undeniably moving, is ultimately too slight to sustain a 90 minute running time – once Hachi starts waiting at the station, that's basically all that happens for the next 40 minutes or so. Much of the blame for this rests with the script, which could easily have made engaging sub-plots out of each of the station-based supporting characters (particularly Erick Avari and Davenia McFadden as a hot dog vendor and a bookseller) but leaves them frustratingly underwritten and essentially repeating the same dialogue over and over again.
If you encounter "Hachi" .Please be kind to it.

Thank you
Ten years passed ,he was still here…..
Hachi has been waiting in the weeds,waiting for his only fellow to walk him home.His hope has been floating in the breeze,carrying his loneliness and misery all above the ground.Maybe professor knows,but he could never come back.