Hachiko: Teaser trailer

tsukitsunetsukitsune
edited January 2009 in General
so, it sort of looks... stupid?
If they were gonna americanize the crap out of the story, why not change the type of dog used?

http://www.hachi-movie.jp/teaser.html
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  • SangmortSangmort
    edited November -1
    That shiba pup is SO cute!


    I feel bad tho :( ~
  • CaliaCalia
    edited November -1
    Almost reminds me of a "marley & me" trailer, except more serious.

    Is that the guy who played George Costanza from "Seinfeld" telling Hachi not to wait anymore.
  • LeonbergerLeonberger
    edited November -1
    Yes it is George Costanza.

    Jen - I guess it's because it's Hollywood. "let's just change a little bit to make it more marketable, but keep the essence (or so they think)". The Hachiko story is one of the main things that lead me to Akitas (and I'm sure many more people), and it is a trait of the breed. So I guess they couldn't change that. I just pity the fact that someone thought of making a film out of that story. Neither Shibas nor Akitas need this kind of publicity.
  • CrimsonO2CrimsonO2
    edited November -1
    You know...this is the second time they've used Richard Gere to re-make a Japanese blockbuster for the American audience "Shall We Dance/Dansu". I think there is just soo much cultural context lost in porting over the story. I think the previous remake "Shall We Dance" suffered greatly from this because I think many viewers didn't know it was originally a Japanese movie, and what that kind of male, mid-life crisis struggle can mean to a working man in the Japanese culture. To me, that brought a little more gravity to his plight instead of just going home one day and deciding, "hmmm...I want to dance."

    I'll be interested to see how well Richard Gere and Jason Alexander pull this one off. I mean hell, they weren't that bad in "Pretty Woman" (Jason Alexander was the a-hole lawyer).

    Jesse
  • RyuRyu
    edited January 2009
    It might be a terrible rendition of the true story but that "You don't have to wait anymore. He's not coming back" just made me bawl. I'm such a softie. lol

    **Edit - I just told Tim about my crying over the above statement and then proceeded to cry again! What is WRONG with me?! LOL
  • KaddyKaddy
    edited November -1
    LOL Pam... I just tried not to think about it (got up and got a soda) :o)
  • brandon_wbrandon_w
    edited November -1
    Pam - It sounds like your going to be posting in the Pregnancy thread soon enough, whether you know it or not.
  • lindsaytlindsayt
    edited November -1
    The dogs came over and started watching as soon as I played the trailer. They enjoy listening to their native tongue. The dogs are cute. Seems kinda corny though. It might as well be a labrador or blood hound- they make good American sob story dogs with their droopy faces. Why are they using a bunch of white guys, isn't this a Japanese story?
  • RyuRyu
    edited November -1
    LOL Brandon - There is definitely something in the "water" on this forum but we'll just have to wait and see!
  • tsukitsunetsukitsune
    edited November -1
    Thats what I mean Lindsay, based on the teaser trailer, using that Japanese Akita just doesn't fit well!! They could have done the movie a favor and got that lab and named him Hank.


    Dude! I didn't even connect the pretty woman - 'hachiko' cast! Nice one Jesse!
  • SangmortSangmort
    edited November -1
    This film is really confusing. Is it like... a "modern" version? Does it take place in the US or Japan? If it takes place in Japan...why are they using americans?!

    lol I'm so lost.~
  • JessicaRabbitJessicaRabbit
    edited November -1
    Much of it was filmed near me in Rhode Island
  • lindsaytlindsayt
    edited November -1
    Than why is it a Japanese Akita???? This makes no sense. Hopefully, it will just be another lame-o movie that ends up on the Hallmark channel.
  • KirbysmomKirbysmom
    edited November -1
    "It might be a terrible rendition of the true story but that "You don't have to wait anymore. He's not coming back" just made me bawl. I'm such a softie"

    Me too! Me too!! I thought the dog that this story is based on, is a Shiba Inu. NO?
  • CrimsonO2CrimsonO2
    edited November -1
    Hi Suzanne,
    This true story is based on an Akita, and has been memorialized in Japan.

    Wikipedia on Hachiko
  • SangmortSangmort
    edited February 2009
    I absolutely love the Tale of Hachiko...I'm very sad to see his memory butchered & his breed hurt [ along with the shiba breed ] :(


    It still bothers me that they stuffed him...~

    image
  • lindsaytlindsayt
    edited November -1
    It's kinda cool to see how he really looked though, in the photo he appears so forlorn. He's white, again the movie changes it and uses a red.
  • tobyshibatobyshiba
    edited November -1
    I'll probably end up seeing the movie, but I am kind of disappointed that they're Americanizing the story so much.
    If they wanted to show the Akita in it's true form, they should not have used a Shiba Inu puppy. I would've left the movie for Japanese to make. Wasn't there already a Hachiko movie?
  • lindsaytlindsayt
    edited November -1
    Of course weather or not everyone admits, I bet the week it comes out we will all be watching it ;)
  • tobyshibatobyshiba
    edited November -1
    Yeah, I mean. I am curious. I want to see if this movie ends up being good or not.
  • JessicaRabbitJessicaRabbit
    edited November -1
    I am confident that I will NOT be seeing this ever. I CANNOT STAND Richard Gere at all even slightly. And seeing a movie that will increase the likelihood that I will be finding puppy mill Akita, and have even more (we have a beautiful female now) at my shelter, is not gonna happen.

    I will go see Watchmen instead.
  • ljowen123ljowen123
    edited November -1
    If I watch it, it'll be one night in the distant future when it comes on TV - I won't pay to watch it or rent it.
  • SangmortSangmort
    edited November -1
    I wont pay to watch the film either, but I will watch it... ~
  • CaliaCalia
    edited November -1
    Reminds me how they had "Americanized" all those Japanese, Chinese and Korean horror flicks. The only one I liked in American form, and the one I feel has started it all, was "The Ring" and that wasn't super close to the original. Actually neither version followed too closely to the book. After "The Ring", Japanese horror was cool and everyone tried to make an "Americanized" version of various popular foreign flicks. I'm just glad they didn't do a remake of "Uzumaki" (Spiral), but that movie and manga was more of an acquired taste.

    When making a movie with puppies, they have to use a lot of puppies and I don't think the Japanese Akita puppies would be as readily available as a Shiba pups, you currently can't really get a petstore JA.

    Practically following "Marley & Me", looks like Hollywood is starting a craze of doggy sob stories, just as they had a craze of penguin movies (Happy Feet, March of the Penguins, Surfs Up, etc)

    I just really, really hope we don't get another "101 Dalmatian" and "Finding Nemo" problem, where people just start buying an animal because "it is so cool" in the movies. So many dead clown fish, so many young, homeless dalmatians.
  • JessicaRabbitJessicaRabbit
    edited November -1
    They will. And I will bet you that it won't be long before you start seeing japanese akita in pet stores.
  • the_november_rainthe_november_rain
    edited February 2009
    hmmm
  • JessicaRabbitJessicaRabbit
    edited November -1
    It also just looks like a bad movie.

    A butchering of one of Japans beloved stories, filmed in Woonsocket Rhode Island with Richard Gere is IMO worthy of some harshness.

    Perhaps if they had chosen to tell the actual story, set it in Japan, and cast it with Japanese actors, it wouldn't be so easy to slam it.
  • SangmortSangmort
    edited November -1
    I'm hoping the movie does awful & gets no attention, IMHO.


    I am also hoping that the JA breeders won't allow their dogs to be sold to any puppy brokers / bybs / etc.




    I really wish most breeders would sell their dogs on a spay / neuter contract. [ though I doubt it would make a huge difference ] ~
  • BradA1878BradA1878
    edited November -1
    I'm a little worried as to what the movie will do to/for the breed, but, at the end of the day, it is up to the BREEDERS to keep the Akita out of puppy mills and pet stores. If they end up in puppy mills or pet stores then it is the BREEDERS you should blame and not the MOVIE.

    I will not be seeing the movie simply because the story makes me cry as it is, I couldn't sit through a movie of it. I just think of Hilo when I hear/read/see the story and I would hate for Mr. Hilo Bear to be all alone like that. :o(

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  • lindsaytlindsayt
    edited November -1
    Oh, poor Hilo (that makes me cry reading that). I hate how watching sad movies or seeing lost or hurt dogs makes me think about my own pets now to the point of tears, that didn't used to happen until I got my own personal dogs than my "professional detachment" went right out the window.
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