← Back to Movies
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
Cast
Richard Gere, Joan Allen, Sarah Roemer, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa View AllCrew
Lasse Hallstrom (Director), Stephen P. Lindsey (Screenplay) View All
Release: Jun. 13th, 2009
Runtime: 1 hour, 33 minutes
Replies Discussions
We didn't find any linked discussions for this film. Here are the results of a quick search of possibly related threads:
3
Herzog's Gazing into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life
ZDF Enterprises is handling worldwide TV and theatrical rights to the film outside the U.S. and the U.K. for Werner Herzog’s forthcoming docu “Gazing into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Lif...
Post a Comment
Got something to say? Log in to comment, or register for free. It's quick, easy, and we won't spam you or anything.
Reviewed by

The whole plot revolves around a dog's devotion to the main character, and, unlike many other great movies, like The 400 Blows (another recent watch) I can't see myself being interested in this plot all over again, and actually feeling the same emotion as the first time I watched (I'll admit, I shed....

Hachi: A Dog's Tale definitely feels quite lightweight due to its decision to trade narrative complexity for emotional simplicity; it's easy to recognise the story's beats and after the "twist" comes the film does threaten to turn into a slog.