‘Undisputed emotional masterpiece’ made fans ‘cry buckets’ as they call it almost ‘too heartbreaking’
Topics: News, US News, Netflix, Film and TV, Dogs
Kit Roberts
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Topics: News, US News, Netflix, Film and TV, Dogs
Netflix viewers have praised a movie which was so emotional that it made them 'cry buckets' when they watched it.
In posts on LADBible's Facebook page Netflix Bangers, people shared their story and why the movie had left them in floods of tears.
There are plenty of movies out there which are tearjerkers.
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Whether it's Titanic and the fact there's definitely room for two people on the wood or the emotional gut-punch of Pixar's Up, which sees the entire life of a couple together before one of them dies of cancer, leaving their lifelong partner alone.
Perhaps it's that moment in Toy Story 3, where fans had to watch the characters they'd grown up with resign themselves to death.
Even though they got rescued, that moment was beyond dark.
But this movie takes things to a more slow-burning kind of heartbreak.
So, what is this film?
The movie is called Hachi: A Dog's Tale, and is a remake of the 1987 Japanese film Hachikō Monogatari, which itself tells the story of Hachikō the dog.
Hachikō was an Akita who lived between 1923 and 1935, and became widely known in Japan for his loyalty to his owner Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department of Tokyo Imperial University.
Every day Hachikō would wait at Shibuya Station in Tokyo for his owner to arrive home from his commute.
Until one day his owner did not return, because Hidesaburō had died from a stroke at work.
But rather than leave, Hachikō waited for Hidesaburō for the next ten years, with people leaving out food for him.
The story got picked up and Hachikō became a symbol of Japanese values and loyalty, with the 1987 movie telling his story.
Hachi: A Dog's Tale shifts the location of the movie to New York bringing Hachikō's story to a US audience.
Richard Gere plays the role of Professor Parker Wilson who buys an Akita dog.
People were left moved to tears by the story, and took to Facebook to share their thoughts.
One wrote: "The loyalty that a dog has to its owner compares to no other, I love this film. It’s sad and beautiful at the same time."
A second commented: "What an excellent movie made me cry so much."
Someone called it a 'masterpiece', saying: "Seriously. I don't remember any other movie that makes you cry for so long. An undisputed emotional masterpiece."