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| Kaoru Kobayashi | ... |
Watanabe Mitsuru
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Kippei Shîna | ... |
Tawada Satoru
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| Teruyuki Kagawa | ... |
Isamu Nii
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Keiko Toda | ... |
Yoshiko Watanabe
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Tomoka Kurotani | ... |
Masumi Kubo
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Yukika Sakuratani | ... |
Mitsuko Watanabe
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Yawara Matsuda | ... |
Etsuo Watanabe
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Tarô Ishida | ... |
Hiroshi Totsuka
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Kenji Mizuhashi | ... |
Yuichi Sakai
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Chie Sakagami | ... |
Yoko Kamata
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Mantarô Koichi | ... |
Kawamoto
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Kuidaore Uchuutei | ... |
Yoshinaga
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Kiyomi Tanikawa | ... |
Kyoko Yaguchi
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Kouzou Satou | ... |
Ishibashi
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Mariko Miyamoto | ... |
Housewife
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As a Labrador puppy, Quill is sent to live with a couple, Isamu and Mitsuko Nii, who work as volunteers, training guide dogs (seeing eye dogs). When he grows to an adult dog, he is taken to a guide dog school, by a friendly, yet firm trainer Satoru Tawada. Although Quill is a little slower than the other dogs at the school, he seems to have an unusual 'empathy' and remarkable patience with his trainers. Tawade decides that Quill would be the ideal guide dog for Mitsuru Watanabe, but Wanatabe, a lonely and ill-tempered middle aged man, isn't as enthusiastic - he would "would rather sleep than be dragged around by a dog.". From here, the story is narrated by Wanatabe's daughter, Mitsuko, and slowly, Wantanbe is rehabilitated, venturing into the outside world, and learning, not only to trust other humans, but the animal at his side who guides him. Written by Anonymous
This is an emotional movie, very heartwarming. A true life story cycle of a guide dog. I've seen it and it warms you up directly for animal lovers and indirectly for non animal lovers. Overall, a good cinematography but more can be add on. They should make more films like this, where they can show us how it looks like in the eyes of these superb creatures created by god for a purpose. Directorship is of this film is good and the director emphasize on balancing the act of both animals and humans in this film. At least, I know now how an animal feels when things like this happens. It just warms your heart when watching this film. In words, its a good movie to watch with your girlfriend who will definitely hold your hand whilst watching this movie.