Kinako - The Story of an Apprentice Police Dog

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.

• Release date
• July 14, 2010
• Runtime
• 113 min
• Genres
• Drama, Family
• Director
• Yoshinori Kobayashi

Cast

Kaho Kyoko Mochizuki Yasufumi Terawaki Seijiro Bamba Yusuke Yamamoto Wataru Tashiro Kenichi Endo Ryoichi Mochizuki