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Name : Siska Meilani
Class : K4-10
Reg numb : 18240
Tasks : Listening 1
Lecturer : Mrs. Leni Marlina
Section : 5-6
Date : Wednesday, 6 April 2011

The Title is “Hachiko”
All of the figures in this film with their characteristics each other:
a) Hachiko
 One kind of dog Akita, cute dog, and faithful with his master (Mr. Parker), all of people who have met with him can fall in love directly, really love his owner.
b) Mr. Parker (Richard Gere)
 Very kind, care with animal, really love with his family, a good father and teacher, can be a good friend for everyone, friendly, and love hachiko very much.
c) Cate –Parker’s wife- (Joan Allen)
 A good wife and mother, can understand what his husband want, love hachiko too.
d) Andy –parker’s daughter- (Sarah Roemer)
 A good girl, care with animal, animal’s lover, love hachiko too, a good mother.
e) Michael –Andy’s husband- (Robbie Ollier Sublett)
 Kind, care with hachiko, love to Andy, a good husband and father.
f) Ken Fujiyoshi –Parker’s best friend- (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa)
 A Japanese man, kind, very closed with Parker, knowledgeable especially about history, love hachiko too.
g) Marry Anne -a shopkeeper- (Davenia Macfadden)
 Kind, friendly, care with animal, love hachiko.
h) Jess –hot-dog seller-
 Kind, care and love hachiko so much.
i) Carl –A masinis- (Jason Alexander)
 A little bit of kind, like to take which thing is not for him.
j) Ronnie –grandson of Parker- (Kevin Decoste)
 A good boy, love hachiko too.
This film about a dog which really faithful for waiting his master. This thing started from one day, when Mr. Parker came back from office, he saw a little puppy in the rail station. Because he felt really touched, he took the puppy to his house. In fact, her wife (Cate) did not like the puppy. So, on the next day, she made a brochure about this dog. Two days later, Mr. Parker went to meet his friend Ken, he is a Japanese man, to ask about origin of this puppy. Ken said that this puppy one kind of Akita dog and then he saw the bracelet which he used. There, wrote a number from Japanese, and the number which written is “hachi”. In Japan, the meaning of it is number eight which Ken said that this number is a lucky number. After that, Mr. Parker asked Ken to keep the puppy, but ken did not want. Because according to him, the puppy have destined for carrying by him. Then, Mr. Parker took him to go home and he gave a name for the puppy with “hachiko”.
Days to days and years to years, hachiko and Mr. Parker were getting closer each other. Every time they played and wasted the time together. Until the one day, Mr. Parker wanted to the office, but hachiko did not want let him go and did want to follow him like usual. Mr. Parker felt confused, but he still go. When he taught in his class, suddenly he felt weak and fell down to the floor, and he died. However, hachiko still waiting for him on the spot, but until night his owner did not come. Hachiko still did it every day. He never felt tired and bored to do those.
Ten years later, Cate came back to the city. She visited her hose and a burial of her husband, and also with Ken also. Then, they went to the rain station, but she shocked when she saw hachiko still sit down like usual on the spot. Then she brought him to the Andy’s house, there she told to the grandson, Ronnie, about history between hachiko and his grandfather. In the school Ronnie also told this story to his friends. Finally, they also are a good friend like his grandfather.
Moral value can we get from this film is about faithful and love. Do not ever forget someone who ever loved you.
Addition information: the real hachiko was born in Odate Japan in 1923. When his master, Dr. Ersaburo Ueno, a professor at Tokyo University died in May, 1925, Hachi returned to the Shibuya train station the next day and for the next nine years to wait. Hachiko died on March, 1934. Today, a bronze statue of Hachiko sits in his waiting spot outside the Shibuya railroad station.