Haven't seen the Japanese version of this movie because there's no way to compare that one better, but I really like this movie alone. The unique warmth and family atmosphere of American movies makes this film so touching. There are bits and pieces of life inside, such as hachi and the professor sharing a bucket of popcorn to watch a baseball game, and at the end the professor jokingly said "it likes the Yankees"; the professor smiled happily when he saw hachi waiting for him outside the train station ...all of which will make you feel extra real and familiar, like a warm current flowing into your heart.
For a human being, ten years may be only a fraction of the whole life, but for a dog, it is a whole life. Hachiko spends its whole life waiting for the return of its owner, rain or shine. When the last hachi stumbled on the railroad tracks in the snowy night and rushed to the train station to wait for the last train of his life, it was really tearful. He and it met on a cold winter night, and he and it will meet again on the same cold winter night, at the end of their lives.
I remember I once saw a sentence: a dog may be just a fragment of your life for you, but you are the whole of its life. If you have pets, be sure to treat them well.
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