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Quill (クイール, kuiru) is a Japanese film structured like a documentary of a guide dog, first released in Japan on 13 March 2004 and on DVD on 25 September 2004. It was also released for the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival in Canada on 17 September 2004.
Quill is directed by Yoichi Sai and adapted from the original novel, The Life of Quill, the Seeing-Eye Dog (盲導犬クイールの一生, modoken kuiru no issho) by Ryohei Akimoto and Kengo Ishiguro .
Five dogs were born to a family in Japan. The woman to whom the dogs were born wants her dogs to be trained as guide dogs. The person whom she called said that they were looking for dogs based on heredity and that the mother of the dog concerned was too ordinary. After repeated pleas, the person agreed, but said that only one of the dogs would be accepted. To choose this dog, the woman was told to conduct a test whereby she placed the dog a distance away from her, and called for them. When she did so, four of the five dogs ran to her, leaving one dog, which had been "wondering what had happened". This dog was selected to be trained as a guide dog and was brought away from its family, constituting its first parting with its company.
The dog was sent to puppy walker s Isamu Nii and Mitsuko Nii, whose primary job was to raise the dog until its first birthday. Using an English-Japanese dictionaryFor other uses of "dictionary", see dictionary (disambiguation). A dictionary is a list of words with their definitions, a list of characters with their glyphs, or a list of words with corresponding words in other languages. Many dictionaries also provide, the couple named the dog "Quill". Quill spent the time playing in the garden and with the babysitters. Soon, snow was seen in their garden, reminding the couple that the dog would have turned one soon. The day, they walked Quill for a longer time in the sakuraThis article is about cherry blossoms; for other meanings, see Sakura (disambiguation). Sakura is the Japanese name for the cherry tree and its blossoms. The fruit is the sakurambo. A well-known symbol of Japan, sakura are said to represent the beautiful trees. Soon, Quill was brought away in a van, constituting its second parting with its company.
Quill was then brought to the training school. Soon Quill's trainer Satoru Tawada familiarised Quill with the English terms "curb", "corner", etc. and could stop whenever it met one of these. It was also familiarised with "left go", "right go" and other terms during training. When the trainer sat the dog down, he apparently forgot about Quill and was walking another dog, when he discovered that Quill was still waiting. He remarks that waiting was one of the most important things in a guide dog.
During training, Quill was walked to a supermarket, and a middle-aged man Mitsuru Watanabe met Quill, and expressed that he would "rather sleep than be dragged around by a dog". In another afternoon, Tawada, with Quill, saw Watanabe walking to his office in his stick, and Tawada suggested that the trip would have took only five minutes with a dog. Reluctantly, Watanabe walked Quill in his harness to his office with ten minutes to spare.
Slowly, Watanabe realised that a guide dog would have been useful. Watanabe was trained with Quill in the training centre to work with each other, and Watanabe was taught to use English since it was less confusing than Japanese, being familiarised with the terms "left go" and "right go". However, Watanabe fell in the final examination, having not listened properly to his dog about the obstacles around, and fails it. He soon learnt to work with the dog more cohesively and earned his license certificate.
A shelter was built for Quill back at home; however, it was too small. It was rebuilt, but without a shelter. Watanabe left Quill in the rain, and Quill ran away. The next morning, Watanabe, who was alerted by the woman who offered to keep Quill for the night, retrieves Quill.
Watanabe continued to work with the guide dog and learnt to trust it. However, Watanabe was stricken with disease and was in hospital. In an afternoon, Watanabe walked Quill for thirty metreFor other uses of "metre" and "meter", see Metre (disambiguation). The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Systeme International d'Unites). It is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in absolute vacus before collapsing and presumably dying. Quill visits Watanabe's funeral, but was thought to "think that he was asleep" in his coffin, marking the third parting with its company.
Seven years passed and Quill never worked as a guide dog again. Throughout the years, it had been a demonstrator guide dog in the country. Eventually, it was back at the Nii family, seen to have remembered everything that happened in the one year spent together. One fateful day, Quill fell and sustained several bone injuries. That night, the couple shares with Quill that they knew it was painful for Quill. It presumably either was put to sleep or had died, at an age of 12 years and 25 days.
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