The love between Parker and Hachi is very sweet and touching and I think it is good for kids to see examples of such unconditional love. You can sense the longing for Parker by looking at the world through Hachi’s eyes. The sections from his perspective are done with different sepia like filter.
In fact, a lot of the movie is told from Hachi’s point of view, which I thought was new and different. This kind of story is usually sullied by lame slapstick or some villain who wants to take the dog but not in Hachi. Hachi see’s Parker on the train and is there to meet him when he gets off in the evening. Parker and Hachi have an instant bond so much so that Hachi does not want to be left in the backyard when Parker leaves for work so he repeatedly follows him until it just becomes part of their routine. Parker finds Hachi as a puppy at the station and to avoid him being taken to the pound he takes the puppy home- much to the chagrin of his wife Cate played the great Joan Allen. There’s a real sense of community at the train station with the hot dog salesman, other vendors and Jason Alexander as the head of the railroad station. Parker is a professor and each day he takes the train to his job. Such a simple story may seem like a stretch for a feature film but it is all about the relationship between Hachi and Richard Gere’s character, Parker Wilson. There is even a statue at the train station where Hachi waited in Japan. Hachi stars Richard Gere and is based on a Japanese film called Hachi-ko, which was in turn based on a true story of a dog that waited for its master at the train for 9 years after he had passed away.
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