Hachi finally passes away and it shows him being reunited with Parker. I just recently lost my dog this past year that I had for 12 long, great years. I don't know, I guess it just had me thinking that I hope something like that happens in whatever afterlife there may be after I die. That I will be reunited with my Brownie dog.
"Now the whole world's gonna know that you died scratching my balls!" ~James Bond (Casino Royale)~
I agree 100%. That scene may be THE scene in terms of making me weep! I cry so hard its unbelievable.
I too had a dog I loved so very very very much named Lance. He was just short of age 20 when he died.
He was such a sweet guy, I can't even imagine an afterlife without him. In fact, I often say that all I really wish for is an afterlife with my passed-on animals and a couple humans.
Pets make such loyal friends.
"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."
My dog died 2 days ago, made me think of this movie instantly. This movie is way too sad. When it's about people I can usually manage but as soon it's about animals I just can't hold it together.
shareI hope the afterlife is like that too. My Babe was as old as your Brownie.
For me, the dam broke when they were playing the Hatchi "theme" solo piano and then a cello came in. I knew it was "curtains," that Hachi was dying. Then they showed the young Hachi playing and then being reunited with the Professor.
"Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"
You're seeing things. Hachi in the movie didn't die, he was merely dreaming. If not how do you explain the cuts to a close up of his face where his closed eyes blink and his snout moves!?! Rhetorical question!
shareWell, everyone's interpretation is their own. My interpretation is I think they made it like people that have supposedly died & they see a bright light, & their life passes before them. I feel that happened to Hachi too-all the memories of the good times & love for Parker, bright lights (albeit train lights) right before Parker walks out of the train station to meet him for the last time, while he's dying. If you're going to get technical, maybe the "closed eye blinking & snout moving" is happening during his last breaths.
That's just my take on the ending- I choose to believe that he was finally reunited w/Parker upon his death. Anyone have any other interpretations of the ending?
Well, everyone's interpretation is their own.My Hachi never died!! He's still out there somewhere being adorable! share
They were reunited in death. Yes. Definitely. I love this movie more than I can put into words. I've lost beloved animals and it hurts like hell. I cried when Hachi died, but when he - woke- in the afterlife, and I realized what happened, I fell into a thousand pieces in the living room floor.
OMG, how I cried. And cried. And cried.
NO OTHER MOVIE has EVER done this to me. EVER.
Thank you, Richard Gere.
There was a "white light" scene before they were reunited at the end. White light often means death in films. He had to die sometime, and with all that exposure it had to be sooner rather than later.
"Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"
In_Theaters, we had our dog put down and even after she died there were some slight bodily movements. My dog's heart had already stopped, and then her nostrils puffed out a couple of times as if she were taking a breath.
Jerk.
Get me a bromide! And put some gin in it!
For me I lost it when the 1st scene where Hachi is shown aged & was ambling down the street to go to the train station. Just heartbreaking... & then pretty much the rest of the movie....when his wife sees him sitting there still waiting, & then of course when he closes his eyes at the end & dies, & is re-united with Parker. I'm watching it for about the 4th time now; I'm going to get thru this movie without crying if it kills me!!
I'm 48 now & have had dogs my entire life, & after seeing some of the old pictures on-line of Hachi, I do remember being interested in this as a kid. I don't remember back then how I ran across the story of him, probably in one of the many dog books i checked out at the library. Just a heart wrenching story. I've ordered the DVD to keep in my dog movie/book library as well as currently reading the Kindle book "Hachi: The Truth of the Life and Legend of the Most Famous Dog In Japan" by Mayumi Itoh which sets straight the "myths" about the story. Kind of confusing until you get all the people straight, but overall a really good read, & recently received "Hachi-ko The Samurai Dog" by Shizuko O. Koster which I haven't read yet.
I tried to find like a little statue or any other kind of merchandise on line but no luck, other than books & a couple of t-shirts. Guess I'll get my clay out & make my own. I thought for sure there would be more souvenir-type things available.
Still, in the back of my mind it does bother me that this poor dog was allowed to run with no one to really care & love for it after his owner dies, especially after starting to read the kindle book, & some of the info in there. The first time I watched it, I only knew the basic premise of the movie, & the whole time I'm thinking he's going to get hit & killed by a car or a train... I just love this story, as sad as it is. Anyone know any where to get mini Hachi statues or merchandise? :)
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....
Author unknown...
I love the Rainbow Bridge 'poem'... (Is it considered a poem?) anyway, I have a copy of it sitting with the ashes of my dogs that I've lost over the years. When I first read it, it also made me cry & I thought of it when Hachi was reunited with Parker at the end.
shareThe House Dog's Grave (Haig, an English bulldog)
I've changed my ways a little; I cannot now Run with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream; and you, if you dream a moment, You see me there.
So leave awhile the paw-marks on the front door Where I used to scratch to go out or in, And you'd soon open; leave on the kitchen floor The marks of my drinking-pan.
I cannot lie by your fire as I used to do On the warm stone, Nor at the foot of your bed; no, all the night through I lie alone.
But your kind thought has laid me less than six feet Outside your window where firelight so often plays, And where you sit to read--and I fear often grieving for me--Every night your lamplight lies on my place.
You, man and woman, live so long, it is hard To think of you ever dying A little dog would get tired, living so long. I hope than when you are lying
Under the ground like me your lives will appear As good and joyful as mine. No, dear, that's too much hope: you are not so well cared for As I have been.
And never have known the passionate undivided Fidelities that I knew. Your minds are perhaps too active, too many-sided. . . . But to me you were true.
You were never masters, but friends. I was your friend. I loved you well, and was loved. Deep love endures To the end and far past the end. If this is my end, I am not lonely. I am not afraid. I am still yours.
Robinson Jeffers, 1941
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"Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"
for me the parts where I lost it were first...when it showed the view from hachi's view going to his spot with that hearbreaking piano score....the other scene is like many others the moment of death scene.
theres no doubt we will see our dogs against in heaven. scipture says the lion will lay down with the lamb...so we already know animals are there.so I doubt God would then not obviously give us the animals that gave us so much joy.
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