CEIDUNS

TOPIC: MONOGRAPH


I. INTRODUCTION

It is a drama film. Based on the true story of a faithful Akita Inu, the
titular Hachik, it is directed by Lasse Hallstrm, written by Stephen P.
Lindsey and stars Richard Gere, Joan Allen, and Sarah Roemer. The subject is
a remake of the 1987 Japanese language film, Hachik
Monogatari (?), literally "The Tale of Hachiko".
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. Sony Pictures Entertainment decided to forgo a U.S. theatrical release.
The film was given a UK theatrical release on March 12, 2010, courtesy
of Entertainment Film Distributors, and opened in over 25 countries
throughout 2009 and 2010. Total foreign box office was $46.7 million as
of January 2011.
Hachik was the star of the 1987 movie Hachik Monogatari-(
?), Directed by Seijiro Kojama, which tells the story of his life from
his birth to his death and imagined as a spiritual reunion with his master.
Considered a blockbuster, the film was the last big hit for Japanese film
studio Shochiku Kinema Kenky-jo.











II. CONTENT

1. Character
1.1 Life.
Richard Gere:
Was born on August 31, 1949, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, actor
Richard Tiffany Gere has made a name for himself with such films
as An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty
Woman, Chicago and Arbitrage. He grew up in a large Methodist
family, one of five children born to Homer and Doris Ann Gere. A
musical child, Gere became quite skilled at playing the trumpet.
After graduating from North Syracuse Central High School in 1967,
Richard Gere studied philosophy at University of Massachusetts at
Amherst on a gymnastics scholarship. He left school after two years
to explore his interest in theatre. In the early 1970s, Gere landed the
role of Danny Zuko in the musical Grease in London.
Gere had a career breakthrough in 1977 with the dramatic
thriller looking for Mr. Goodbar, starring Diane Keaton. In the film, he
plays a rough-and-tumble lothario who meets a schoolteacher
(Keaton). The following year, Gere landed a starring role in Terrence
Malick's epic Days of Heaven.
Joan Allen:

Was born on August 20, 1956, in Rochelle, Illinois. She began her
professional career at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. On
Broadway, she received a Tony for her performance in Burn
This (1987), and was nominated in the same category for The Heidi
Chronicles (1989). Allen's first film was Compromising Positions (1985),
followed by several other critically acclaimed film performances

Sarah Romer:
Roemer was born in San Diego, California, and began a modeling
career

in 2000 after she was discovered while buying coffee at a
local 7-Eleven while attending Horizon Jr/Sr High School. Roemer
made her screen debut in 2006 portraying Lacey Kimble in the horror
film The Grudge2. She portrays a high school student and young
cheerleader. The film was released October 13, 2006. Despite a
negative critical reception, the film managed to have box office
success grossing $70,711,175 worldwide. She also had a small role
in the independent film Wristcutters: A Love Story portraying Rachel.
In 2009 Roemer portrayed Andy Wilson, the daughter of Richard
Gere's character Parker Wilson in the American drama film Hachiko:
A Dog's Story. The film is an American adaptation of the 1987
Japanese film Hachik Monogatari. The film enjoyed worldwide box
office success, grossing $41,492,583 in foreign countries. Critical
reception was positive. She also starred in the independent
film Falling Up which was released to mixed reviews and was
released straight-to-DVD in late 2009. Roemer appeared in the music
video for "Come Back To Me" by American Idol contestant David
Cook.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Was born September 27, 1950) is a Japanese-American actor,
sports physiologist and martial artist.
In addition to his extensive film work, he has appeared on television
in Star Trek: The Next Generation ("Encounter at Farpoint";
1987), Thunder in Paradise (1995), Nash Bridges (1996), Baywatch:
Hawaiian Wedding (2003) and Heroes(2007). He also provided the
voice of Sin Tzu for the video game Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu. He
played the part of Earth Alliance security officer Morishi in Babylon
("Convictions"). He played the evil soul-stealing sorcerer Shang
Tsung in afilm adaptation of the video game Mortal Kombat, and the
evil mastermind Heihachi Mishima in the film adaptation ofTekken.

1.2 Film:

Richard Gere - Parker Wilson
He was a piano teacher who works at a university teaching.
It is he who finds Hachi. He is sencible, is a good husband
and a good father, too.
Joan Allen - Cate Wilson
She is Parkers wife; she has a daughter with Parker.
Although at first she did not want Hachi live with them but
at the end accepted. She loves Hachi and conceited. After
the death of her husband, sold his house and does not
return until after ten years.
Sarah Roemer as Andy Wilson, his daughter
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Ken Fujiyoshi
Jason Alexander as Carl Boilins
Erick Avari as Jasjeet, an Indian vendor
Davenia McFadden as Mary Anne
Kevin DeCoste as Ronnie
Tora Hallstrm as Heather
Robbie Sublett as Michael
Robert Capron as a pupil
Frank Aronson as a Butcher





2. Plot
Students are giving oral presentations
about personal heroes. Ronnie's
subject is his grandfather's dog.
Years earlier, a puppy is sent from
Japan to the United States, but
escaped when his cage fell off the
baggage cart at an American train
station. Professor Parker Wilson finds
the abandoned dog and when the
station controller refused to take the
puppy, he taked it home with the intention of returning the animal to its
owner. Initially, Cate Parker did not want them to keep the puppy.
Parker learns that the dog is an Akita. The dog has not been claimed
when he returned to the station the following morning, so he took him to
the college, where Ken, a Japanese professor, suggests that perhaps
the two are meant to be together. He translated the symbol on the collar
as 'Hachi'Japanese for the number 8signifying good fortune. Parker
decided to call the dog Hachik. Parker attempted to play fetch with
Hachi, but Hachi refused to join in. Cate received a call from someone
wishing to adopt the puppy, but having seen how close her husband is
with Hachi, she told the caller, "Hachi has already been spoken for his."
Parker continues to be mystified by Hachi's refusal to do dog-like
activities like chase and fetch. One morning, Parker leaves for work and
Hachi follows him to the train station; he refuses to leave until Parker
walks him home. Later in the afternoon, Hachi walks to the station, to
wait patiently for Parker to come home. Parker relents and walks Hachi
to the station every morning. After Parker's train departs, Hachi walks
home, returning in the afternoon to see his master's train arrive and go
home together. They continue to do this every day.
One day Parker gets ready to leave and Hachi barks at him and refuses
to join him. When Parker does leave, Hachi chases him while holding
his ball. Parker is surprised but pleased that Hachi is finally willing to
play fetch the ball with him. Not wishing to be late for college, Parker
catches his train despite Hachi's barking. Later that day Parker is
teaching his music class, still holding Hachi's ball, when he suddenly
suffers a fatal heart attack and dies.
At the train station, Hachi waits patiently as the train arrives, but there is
no sign of Parker. He remains, lying in the snow, for several hours, until
Parker's son-in-law Michael (Ronnie Sublett) comes to collect him. The
next day, Hachi returns to the station and waits, remaining all day and
all night as time passes, Cate sells the house and Hachi is sent to live
with her daughter Andy (Sarah Roemer), Michael, and their baby
Ronnie. However, at the first opportunity, he escapes and eventually
finds his way back to his old house and then to the station, where he
sits at his usual spot, eating hot dogs given to him by Jasjeet, a local
vendor. Andy arrives soon after and takes him home, but lets him out
the next day to return to the station.
For the next ten years, Hachi waits for his owner. His loyalty is profiled
in the local newspaper. Cate comes back to visit Parker's grave where
she meets Ken, and says she can't believe ten years have gone by.
Walking past the station, she is stunned to see Hachi maintaining his
vigil. Overcome with grief, Cate sits and waits for the next train with him.
At home, Cate tells the now ten-year-old Ronnie about Hachi. Hachi
continues his daily walk to the same spot in front of the train station to
his final day when he recollects his life with his master. He then
imagines Parker coming out of the station and the two greeting each
other. Hachi is last seen lying on the snow, alone and still.
Back in his classroom, Ronnie, forms his conclusion why Hachi will
forever be his hero. Ronnie's story has clearly moved the class, with
some students holding back tears, even those who had laughed at the
beginning. After school, Ronnie is met coming off the school bus by his
dad and his own puppy, also named Hachi. Ronnie and Hachi walk
down the same tracks where Parker and Hachi had spent so much time
together.
The closing cards reveal information about the real Hachik, who was
born in date in 1923. After the death of his owner, Hidesaburo Ueno,
in 1925, Hachik returned to the Shibuya train station the next day and
every day after that for the next nine years. The final card reveals that
the real Hachik died in March 1934, but the correct date is March 8,
1935. A photo of his statue in front of the Shibuya train station is the last
image shown before the credits roll.
On May 19, 2012, a ceremony took place at the Woonsocket, RI train
depot where "Hachi: A Dog's Tale" was filmed, unveiling a permanent
bronze statue of the legendary Japanese dog Hachiko. This is an exact
replica of the bronze statue of Hachiko which resides in front of Shibuya
Station in Japan. The train depot at One Depot Square is also now
known as Hachiko Place. This statue dedication ceremony was part of
the Cherry Blossom Festival held in three Rhode Island towns,
Pawtucket, Central Falls, and Woonsocket. Many dignitaries, including
the Mayor of Woonsocket and the Consul General of Japan attended the
ceremony. Two cherry blossom trees were planted by the statue. A
visiting guest, who drove up from New Jersey, brought along his Akita-
mix Hachi, who was invited to participate at the ribbon-cutting ceremony
as a "real-life standing for Hachiko".


3. Hachiko : biography

Hachik was born on a farm near the city of Odate in Akita Prefecture in
early 1924, was given to Eisaburo Ueno, a professor in the Department
of Agriculture at the University of Tokyo, in the wake of the death of an
older dog, who them was very sad. EL teacher did not want to keep it,
but his teenage daughter insisted. Hachik was sent in a box from Akita
prefecture to Shibuya Station (in a travel of two days in a baggage car).
When the servants of the teacher they were to withdraw, they thought
the dog was dead.
However, when they reached the house, the teacher approached the
dog a bowl of milk and this was reviving. The professor picked up on his
lap and noticed that the front legs were slightly deflected, so decided to
call Hachi ('eight' in Japanese), the similarity with the kanji (Japanese
character) used to represent the number eight ( ).

The professor's daughter left the family home to get pregnant and
married, to go live in the family home of her husband. The teacher
thought of gifting Hachi, but soon grew fond of the dog, who adored him
vigorously.

The dog accompanied him to the station to leave there every day when
her owner went to work, and at the end of the day back to the station to
meet him. This routine, which became part of both their lives, did not go
unnoticed either by the people who passed by the place and by the
owners of the shops in the vicinity.



4. Hachiko's death

On March 8, 1935, Hachiko was found dead in front of Shibuya Station,
after unsuccessfully waiting for his master for nine years. Beside the
grave of Professor Ueno in Aoyama Cemetery, Minmi-Aoyama, Minato-
Ku, Tokyo a monolith with its name was built.

When they did a necropsy (for his taxidermy) in his stomach four wands
used for yakitori (skewers or kabobs skewered chicken) were found, but
these wands had not damaged the stomach lining, so it did not cause
his death. The causes of death Hachiko was considered unknown, until
in March 2011 definitively determined: the dog had suffered from
terminal cancer and filariasis (infection of worms) in corazn.1

Hachik's body was dissected and stored at the Museum of Natural
Sciences Ueno district (Tokyo). Nine years later (1944), in the
framework of the Second World War, the bronze statue of Hachiko had
to melt for weapons. But in August 1947, two years after the end of the
war, another bronze statue was erected which still stands and is an
extremely popular meeting place, while sometimes the crush of people
gathering difficult.

On 8 March each year commemorates Hachik in the square opposite
the train station Shibuya.1 There is also a similar statue in front of the
railway station of the city of Odate (near which Hachiko was born).







III. CONCLUSION

Actually: man's best friend is the dog, the only being that will not betray,
the only being that has infinite nobility, the only being who does not judge
anyone for anything, the only being who gives you everything for nothing,
the only being that if it's bad is because so was his own, the only being
who deserves a monument in this world is a dog.
gives us a great lesson of fidelity and loyalty many times in our life we do
not value a friendship or a person who want to argue and fight for some
reason we leave and abandon paragraphs and realize the true treasure
we have on our side, this dog never left his master only but I hope, and
no matter what he was always there waiting for him so the dead would
not care.
If a man can have such a strong emotional bond with an "animal"
because we should have the same bond of love among us humans,
because we are equal, and no more nor less. Another is that love or
affection, if it can be eternal and true.
















IV. REFERENCE

Wikipedia ( 8 July 2014) Hachi: A dogs Tale / obtained:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachi:_A_Dog's_Tale
BIO ( 12 July 2014) Biography : Richard Gere/ obtained:
http://www.biography.com/people/richard-gere-9309229#early-life-and-
career&
BIO (12 July 2014) Biography: Joan Allen/ obtained:
http://www.biography.com/people/joan-allen-9542169#academy-award-
nominations&
Wikipedia (1 May 2014) Sarah Roemer/ obtained:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Roemer
Wikipedia (4 May 2014) Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa / obtained:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cary-Hiroyuki_Tagawa
Wikipedia (22 June 2014) Siempre a tu Lado / obtained:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siempre_a_tu_lado,_Hachiko
Yahoo (2011) Answers Yahoo / obtained:
https://es.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110709152137AAA
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