Yesterday , I watched a Hollywood movie named hachi, a dog’s story. I couldn’t stop my tears for the first time in my entire life. I heard about this movie some time ago from friends. It is based on a real story which in fact happened in Japan.
The story begins with a small puppy in a cage transported to somewhere but that cage fell off inside train station and the puppy becomes free. He roams here and there later finally stops in front of a man (Richard gere). He picks up him and try to find its owner but he couldn’t so he takes him home. At first his wife didn’t like the puppy but later when she saw his husband playing so gladly with him then she accepts.
From then Hachi(dog) became good friend with him. He started to go with him outside the train station and come again around 5 pm to wait his master there. All the people near the station became friends with him.
On day all of a sudden the owner(professor) collide on his feet during his lecture and passd away leaving hachi back waiting. Most astonishing is that , hachi started to wait his owner every day around 5 pm and waited him until last train. Thus he waited him for 9 long years until his last breath. In between his owner’s wife migrate and he was taken by his daughter, but hachi couldn’t forget his master he was always desperate when he used to hear trains siren far away ,the time his master used to return back. Later his daughter leaves him seeing his loyalty and love towards his master(her father).Hachi spent his entire life waiting him sheltering himself under the old train around there.
The moment where I couldn’t stop my tears were when the owner’s wife visit his husband’s grave after 9 years and returns back to catch a train. She saw old and weak hachi still waiting him on the same place. She cries a river in front of him. Oh god my throat struck and eyes filled with tears. I couldn’t stop myself too. I felt like I also dropped a bucket full of it.
During the movie I was also telling mili (my girlfriend) about the scenes . She was also responding at the same time. She was with me, online chatting during entire movie. I also saw her sad face in webcam showing pity on hachi all the time. When I told her that tears fell off from my eyes then she said “it’s ok dear your eyes will be fresh.” Ha..ha..
Hachi had a tag hanging on his neck when he was found. The sign in a tag was a symbol of good luck (hachi) in Japanese. From then his master named him hachi.
I remember my dog (danny ) today. Even he is so nice , he is a good friend of mom. When she goes out to the farm he follows her and be with mom all the time. My mom said that he made her laugh and pity because when she shouted to the goat he ran fast and try to stop the goat pulling its rope which is tighten around the goat’s neck as if he knows everthing.
It’s been 2 years that I am far away from home. I Don’t know what he has been doing these days he might have grown old and weak, might not be able to follow mom to the fields. I haven’t asked mom yet about him but when I call her next time I‘ll surely ask about him. He is not close to hachi but that’s all we had.
the original picture of hachi (hachiko)born in odate japan in 1923. When his master, Dr. Eisaburo Ueno, aprofessor at Tokyo University died in May,1925, Hachi returned to the shibuya train station the next day and for the next nine years to wait.
hachiko died in march 1935.
Today, a bronze statue of hachiko sits in his waiting spot outside the shibuya railroad satation.
