Siempre a tu lado (Hachiko)
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Siempre a tu lado (Hachiko)

2009 • 93 min • Drama · Family

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Best from age 7
91
Movie Knight Score
7260 reviews
  • 100 Reviewers · 3 · 53%
  • 80 Audience · 7257 · 47%

Basada en una historia real, un profesor universitario encuentra un cachorro Akita abandonado y lo lleva a casa. Ambos forman un lazo inquebrantable de amor y lealtad que trasciende lo ordinario, incluso después de una tragedia. Es una historia conmovedora sobre devoción y recuerdo.

Violence & peril
1/10
Language
1/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
0/10
Romance & sensuality
0/10
Scary moments
2/10

Heads up

  • La película trata temas de pérdida y muerte que pueden ser tristes
  • Algunos momentos emotivos pueden ser intensos para espectadores jóvenes o sensibles

What it models well

  • Lealtad y devoción
  • Amor incondicional
  • Perseverancia y esperanza
  • Amistad y compañerismo

Talk about it after

  • La historia real de Hachiko
  • El duelo y la pérdida, y cómo los enfrentamos
  • El vínculo especial entre humanos y animales

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Top billed cast

Director: Lasse Hallström • Crew: Stephen P. Lindsey

Trailers & clips

Hatchi: A Dog's Tale - HD Trailer - Coming Soon

Reviewer notes

Recommended

Hachi: A Dog's Tale is the rare remake that earns its tears honestly. Lasse Hallstrom takes the real story of Hachiko, the Akita who waited nearly a decade at a Tokyo station for an owner who had already died, and relocates it to small-town America. That move could have flattened the legend. It does not. Richard Gere plays Parker, a music professor who finds an abandoned Akita puppy at the train station and takes ...

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

**A cute, sweet and tender film, which imports an originally Japanese story to the USA and which promises to make many children insistently ask their parents for puppies.** I'm not a fan of dogs... in fact, I'm one of those people who never had dogs, and that's why I didn't develop a great admiration for these animals, despite recognizing that they are excellent companions and can make a difference for many peo...

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

This movie is wonderfully written, it's one of my favourite films and I cry each time. Based on a true story of devotion the dog keeps going back to the train station to meet his owner who had a heart attack and died so is obviously he is not coming back, he becomes the train station mascot and people raise funds to help look after the welfare of the dog. it's lovely but you will need plenty of soft tissues to wip...

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Details

TMDB audience
8.0/10 (7,257)
Age rating
G
Status
Released
Budget
$16,000,000
Box office
$46,800,000

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