# Hachiko (1987)

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**Original title**: *ハチ公物語*
**Runtime**: 107 min
**Genres**: Drama, Family, History
**Directed by**: Seijiro Koyama
**Written by**: Kaneto Shindō
**Starring**: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kaoru Yachigusa, Toshiro Yanagiba, Toshinori Omi, Mako Ishino, Masumi Harukawa

> *Love between a dog and his master. A story of devotion, which transcends time and space.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A Japanese parable of fidelity so pure it feels like a dog’s homework assignment. The story follows an Akita who keeps waiting at a train station for a dead professor, somehow turning routine devotion into national myth. A noble experiment in time-wasting that somehow earns four legs of pathos.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, tender

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