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Snow Falling 1999

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 127 min

genre: drama

theme: legal drama

director: Scott Hicks

Score: 5 / 10

Snow Falling on Cedars is a 1999 American legal drama film directed by Scott Hicks, and starring Ethan Hawke, James Cromwell, Max von Sydow, Youki Kudoh, Rick Yune, Richard Jenkins, James Rebhorn, and Sam Shepard. It is based on David Guterson's PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel of the same name, with a screenplay by Hicks and Ron Bass.

Plot

Set on the fictional San Piedro Island in the northern Puget Sound region of the Washington state coast in 1950, the plot revolves around the murder case of Kazuo Miyamoto, a Japanese American accused of killing Carl Heine, a White fisherman. The trial occurs in the midst of deep anti-Japanese sentiments following World War II. Covering the case is the editor of the town's one-man newspaper, Ishmael Chambers, a World War II veteran who lost an arm fighting the Japanese in the Pacific War. Ishmael struggles with his childhood, and continuing, love for Kazuo's wife, Hatsue, and his conscience, wondering if Kazuo is truly innocent.

Cast

More details

author	David Guterson Ronald Bass Scott Hicks
contentLocation	Washington
director	Scott Hicks
editor	Hank Corwin
genre	drama romance
keywords	442nd infantry regiment 442nd regimental combat team all islanders of japanese ancestry were forced to relocate to internment camps anti-japanese sentiment elderly man family feud fight fish force german american internment camp japanese american internment japanese attack on pearl harbor kill land sale murder case nazi war crimes pacific war pearl harbor puget sound sale war crimes war veteran washington state white white american world war ii
musicBy	James Newton Howard
nomination	Academy Award for Best Cinematography
producer	Frank Marshall Harry J. Ufland Kathleen Kennedy Ronald Bass
productionCompany	The Kennedy/Marshall Company
publisher	Universal Pictures
theme	legal drama race and ethnicity