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Snow Falling on Cedars is a 1994 novel by David Guterson. Guterson, a teacher, wrote the book in the early morning hours over ten years, until eventually quitting his job to write full-time, following its success.
Sep 12, 1994 · Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson, is based on remote San Pedro Island (fictional) in Puget Sound, Washington State. Kabuyo Miyamoto, an American-Japanese man is accused of murdering a fellow salmon fisherman whose body is found mysteriously tangled up in his fishing net.
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.
Jan 7, 2000 · "Snow Falling on Cedars" is a rich, multilayered film about a high school romance and a murder trial a decade later. The young lovers are Ishmael Chambers (Ethan Hawke), son of the local newspaper editor in a small Pacific Northwest town, and Hatsue Miyamoto (Youki Kudoh), daughter of Japanese Americans.
Snow Falling on Cedars is a 1994 novel by David Guterson that explores the lingering effects of World War II on a small island community in the Pacific Northwest. The novel opens in 1954, when a local fisherman is found dead in his net.
Snow Falling on Cedars features a fictionalized portrayal of real moments in history, namely World War II and the internment of Japanese Americans in the United States that occurred shortly after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
Fog as thick and palpable as cotton hangs suspended over San Piedro Island. On the bay, a flickering lantern signals distress from a crippled fishing boat, while elsewhere a freighter lurches ...
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- History, Drama
- PG-13
