Kinako - The Story of an Apprentice Police Dog
Film2010113 min7.0/10 on TMDB
Directed by Yoshinori Kobayashi
The story
Based on the true story of a female dog trainer, Kyoko Mochizuki, nicknamed "Anko", and a Labrador retriever which repeatedly fails the police dog trials despite numerous tries. Kyoko Mochizuki is an 18-year-old girl who dreams of becoming a police dog trainer. She is admitted to a police dog training school and meets a young Kinako, a Labrador retriever puppy. An instructor there informs Kyoko that Kinako is too weak to become a police dog, but Kyoko is determined that she will make Kinako into one.
Cast & crew
KahoKyoko Mochizuki
Yasufumi TerawakiSeijiro Bamba
Yusuke YamamotoWataru Tashiro
Kenichi EndoRyoichi MochizukiExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Hideya Hamada
- Screenplay
- Kito Tawara
- Director
- Yoshinori Kobayashi
- Producer
- Ito Jingo
- Producer
- Kazunari Takeuchi
- Editor
- Hirohide Abe
- Director of Photography
- Takahito Kasai
- Original Music Composer
- Takayuki Hattori