Richard Gere To Star In Hachiko Film

Richard Gere will star in and produce “Hachiko: A Dog’s Story,” a drama that will begin production in September.

The film will be fully financed by Inferno Entertainment, whose Bill Johnson and Vicky Shigekuni Wong will produce with Gere. They are closing in on a director.

Gere will play a college professor who takes in a dog he finds abandoned. Both man and hound find their lives changed forever as they form an unbreakable bond. Scripted by Stephen P. Lindsay, the project is based on a true story and inspired by the 1987 Japanese film “Hachiko monogatari.”

Movie will be produced in association with Japan-based Shochiku.

Those unfamiliar with the story of Hachiko can read it here.

9 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - May 24, 2007 at 7:26 am

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Roaf

This Hachiko film sounds suspiciously similar to the recent Scottish film, “Greyfriars Bobby.” The Hachiko statue in Shibuya is also a direct imitation of the Greyfriars Bobby statue in Edinburgh!

Debra

Bobby was a Skye Terrier, Hachiko was an Akita. Two very different dogs.

Both are true stories, neither are an imitation of the other.

Your comment is not well researched.

Debra

Tadashi

But Hachiko was real.
And what can you imitate from a statue of a sitting dog?

Oh, and I hate those american remakes of japanese movies, with Richard Gere or not.
Mike

I really want to see this movie. The real story is very touching and I always enjoyed meeting people around the staute of Hachiko.
Michael

“Direct imitation” in the sense that they look nothing alike?

Couldn’t there be some chance, that among all the millions of dogs that have lived, perhaps more than one was loyal to its master after death?
http://picasaweb.google.com/togeika/KinWorking Akitajin

Please see the original, you can buy it on Ebay. Make sure it is english captioned and will work in your region.

Here are photos of my Akita Kintaro. I brought him to Minnesota with me. My Taiko died last September in Japan and I found Kintaro in November. I is a rescue and was 1.5 years old when I found him.

http://picasaweb.google.com/togeika/KinWorking

Photos of my late Taiko here:

http://akitas.blogspot.com/

You can buy original DVD here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Japanese-Drama-Movie-DVD-Hachiko-monogatari-ENG-Sub_W0QQitemZ120153090341
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http://career.gunadarma.ac.id rindha

hachiko is a great film…
it is so sad, it can make me cry… =(
i want to have a dog likes hachiko..=)

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