JAPAN – 2004 – 100 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY YOICHI SAI
NON-THEATRICAL: AVAILABLE FOR TV, VOD & FILM FESTIVALS ONLY
Original Titel: Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog Country: Japan Release Date: May 18th, 2012 Released by: Music Box Films Running Length: 100 minutes Genre: Drama Director: Sai Yoichi Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi, Kippei Shiina, Teruyuki Kagawa Based on a true story, QUILL: THE LIFE OF A GUIDE DOG is the sweet tale of a yellow Labrador Retriever guide dog for the blind named Quill.
"If you see only one Japanese seeing-eye-dog movie this year, let it be QUILL. The opening scenes present a bounty of puppies so unbearably cute, they'll elicit a chorus of coos from even the stoniest audience. The movie's hero is a Labrador named Quill who undergoes the most demanding training regimen seen on screen since the 36th Chamber of Shaolin. Smart, diligent and charming, he wins the affection of his stern trainer, Tawada (Kippei Shiina), and his grumpy blind handler (Kaoru Kobayashi). Audiences are just as unlikely to resist him in Yoichi Sai's simply rendered and indisputably sweet film." —Jason Anderson, EYE Magazine