Quill (2004)

Profile

• Movie: Quill
• Japanese: クイ-ル

• Director: Yoichi Sai
• Writer: Ryohei Akimoto, Kengo Ishiguro
• Producer: Ichiro Yamamoto, Nozomu Enoki
• Cinematographer: Junichi Fujisawa
• Release Date: March 13, 2004
• Runtime: 100 min.
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Plot

Quill is one of the five puppies of an ordinary Labrador mom. What makes Quill special from his siblings is that he has a black spot in his belly that is shaped like a bird, and that he is stubbornly intelligent. He is sent to training school, but is first kept by a couple until he turns one year old. In training school, he is paired with a grumpy old blind man, Mr. Watanabe (Kaoru Kobayashi), who at first dislikes the idea of being pulled around by a dog but later decides to get Quill as his “seeing-eye” dog.