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Snow Falling on Cedars is a american film of genre Drama directed by Scott Hicks released in USA on 22 december 1999 with Ethan Hawke
Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
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Add to a movie listSnow Falling on Cedars is a film directed by Scott Hicks. It is based on David Guterson's award-winning novel of the same title. It was released in 1999 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
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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 (Rick Yune), 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 (Ethan Hawke), a World War II veteran who lost an arm fighting the Japanese in the Pacific. Ishmael struggles with his love for Kazuo's wife, Hatsue (Youki Kudoh), and his conscience, wondering if Kazuo is truly innocent.Actors
Ethan Hawke
(Ishmael Chambers)
Yūki Kudō
(Hatsue Miyamoto)
Reeve Carney
(Young Ishmael Chambers)
Max von Sydow
(Nels Gudmundsson)
Anne Suzuki
(Young Hatsue Imada)
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