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Warner Bros. Pictures
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Studio: Universal Pictures
Release Date: Dec 22, 1999
Running Time: 126 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
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Ishmael is a local reporter covering a murder trial involving the 1954 death of a fisherman in a small island community in the Pacific Northwest. What first looks like a straight-forward case soon turns into a unnerving series of mysteries, intensified by flashbacks to WWII Japanese concentration camps and the realization that the wife of the accused murderer is his childhood sweetheart.
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Hatsue Miyamoto
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Young Hatsue Imada
Kazuo Miyamoto
Nels Gudmundsson
Alvin Hooks
Judge Fielding
Sheriff Art Moran
Susan Marie Heine
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David Guterson's first novel, "Snow Falling on Cedars," became a surprise success in 1994 mostly through word of mouth. A well-written, almost poetic look at life in an insular community on an island in the Pacific Northwest, the book was an intriguing blend of courtroom theatrics, forbidden love and the physical and psychological effects of the Second World War filtered through the conscience of the town's newspaperman. The white natives, many of Scandinavian and Germanic stock, lived in… |
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