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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.
On the bay, a flickering lantern signals distress from a crippled fishing boat, while elsewhere a freighter lurches blindly through the chalky mist. By morning, sea and sky are clear, but the ...
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- Scott Hicks
- PG-13
- Ethan Hawke
Jan 7, 2000 · A film about a high school romance and a murder trial in a Pacific Northwest town during World War II and its aftermath. The review praises the style, the sense of place, the courtroom scenes and the themes of the film, but criticizes the lack of depth of the defendant.
Set on the fictional San Piedro Island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, just north of Puget Sound, in the state of Washington in 1954, the plot revolves around a murder case in which Kabuo Miyamoto, a Japanese American, is accused of killing Carl Heine, a respected fisherman in the close-knit community. Much of the story is told in flashbacks ...
Find out who starred in the movie adaptation of David Guterson's novel, directed by Scott Hicks and produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers, cinematographers, editors, and more.
In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmael, a local reporter, the trial strikes a deep emotional chord when he finds his ex-lover is linked to the case.
- 127 min
Snow Falling on Cedars Official Trailer #1 - Ethan Hawke Movie (1999) HD. Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers. 1.66M subscribers.
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