Snow Falling on Cedars

Set around World War II, this love-story-cum-trial-story is about the murder of a fisherman farmer. The prime suspect is his friend, a Japanese man, who grew up in the area and is well known. Anti-Japanese sentiments were still running high after the war, even though the man in question had fought in the American army. Complicating matters is that his Japanese wife was the long-time best friend and lover of an Anglo man, himself bitter that he was never allowed to marry the Japanese woman.

126 minutes.
Drama, Romance

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Will love conquer all?

Credits

Cast	Ethan Hawke, James Cromwell, Richard Jenkins, Youki Kudoh, James Rebhorn, Max von Sydow
Director	Scott Hicks
Screenplay	Ronald Bass, Scott Hicks, from the novel by David Guterson
Music	James Newton-Howard
Cinematography	Robert Richardson
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Soundtrack	Available
SA distributor	UIP
Made in	1999
Produced by	Universal Pictures

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Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Movies for Africa Ian Douglas	14
Cape Argus Adrian Monteath	15
Cape Argus Derek Wilson	20
The Star Jay Carr	16
Die Burger Francois Smith	10
Sunday Times Barry Ronge	15
TV3 Screenplay Barry Ronge	18
SAfm Saturday Wired Alan Swerdlow	15
eye Weekly Jason Anderson	10
Rough Cut Christopher Brandon	19
Total Film Neil Smith	10
Film Review L´orien Haynes	10
What the People say
Internet 771 Netizens	15
Average .. 72%	14

Visitor Comments

Ian Douglas: Absolutely gorgeous cinematography, set for Oscar glory. The story is a kinda romeo-and-juliet-and-merchant-of-venice combination. The look at the American treatment of the Japanese Americans was interesting. At times, it seemed they were drawing parallels between how they treated the Japs and how the Nazi's treated the Jews. They then go on to say, well, okay, we locked them up, but look at the nice accomodation and facilites we gave them, and at least we didn't gas them.... This film is on the art circuit, which is a pity as it *should* be seen by teenagers.

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Snow Falling on Cedars

Credits

Ratings

What the Critics say

What the People say

Average .. 72%

Visitor Comments