Walking With The Dog DVD

Starring: Tanaka Naoki, Ryo, Yoshimura Yumi

Language: Japanese

Subtitle: English/Chinese

Media Type: NTSC, All Regions

No of CDs: 1 DVD

Shipping Origin: MALAYSIA

Rating for English subtitled: Good

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Walking With The Dog 男人与流浪狗 DVD

Yasuyuki (Tanaka) still hasn't come to terms with the fact that he is splitting up with his pristine but frosty girlfriend Miwa (the stunning Ryô of Gemini and Bright Future). A likeable enough chap, he is still a bit clueless when it comes to understanding her emotional needs, and with her mother terminal ill with only six months left of her life, it initially seems that Miwa's decision to move out of the apartment they have shared for several years and spend some time back with her family without him is only a temporary one. Coming back from the convenience store the day before they are set to part, he comes across an abandoned dog and, kind-hearted guy that he is, stops to feed it. The dog, whom he names the Tamura, after a kid he was at school with due to their similar toilet habits, immediately takes a shine to Yasuyuki (more specifically, his leg) and follows him back to the apartment block.

Come the following morning when it is time to move on, Yasuyuki still hasn't organised a place to stay, and his newly-married pregnant sister Ryoko (Yoshimura) and her husband Tsuyoshi (Katagiri) are adamant that he doesn't spend so much as an evening on their couch. The dog, however, is still there, waiting patiently for Yasuyuki on the tarmac outside the apartment. With both man and dog alike finding themselves deserted and living like vagrants with neither a roof over their heads nor any real sense of purpose in life, they are by chance alerted by a TV program about an organisation that trains "Therapy Dogs" used to comfort the elderly and the infirm. Sweet-natured Tamura seems to be an ideal candidate for the job, and with Yasuyuki acting as his trainer, his natural talent at comforting the sick might just prove instrumental in getting back in Miwa's good books by both making her mother's final months on the planet a little more bearable, and building a bridge between Miwa and her sulky, withdrawn sister Miki (Fujita).