Gere comes into his own for the bonding: all twinkly, hard-won wisdom, flashing just a tantalising glint of misspent youth. So, man bonds picturesquely with dog before tragedy hits. It kept up a loyal vigil outside the station used by its master for a decade after he died and was commemorated with a statue. The dog is a Japanese Akita (which looks something like a super fluffy blow-dried German shepherd) and the story is tenuously based on that of a real dog in Tokyo in the 1920s. Richard Gere (ageing with such elegance you half-expect him to appear in velvet monogrammed slippers) is a music professor who takes in a lost puppy. L asse Hallström dishes up more classy mediocrity with this brazenly uncomplicated treat for dog lovers.
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