Film ties together three stories
Based on the best-selling novel by David Guterson, “Snow Falling on Cedars” is an ambitious film that weaves three interconnected threads — a courtroom drama, a romance, and a look at racial prejudice.<br /><br />On fictional San Pedro Island in Washington State in 1950, fisherman Kazuo Miyamoto (Rick Yune) is on trial for the murder at sea of Carl Heine (Eric Thal). Heine owned land that would have belonged to Miyamoto’s family if not for the Japanese internment during World War II. Watching the trial is Ishmael Chambers (Ethan Hawke), who assumed his late father’s role as owner and editor of the town’s newspaper. Ishmael harbors concerns that he will never measure up to his father (Sam Shepard), who spoke out against the anti-Japanese prejudice in the community. Also in the courtroom is Kazuo’s wife, Hatsue (Youki Kudoh), who had been Ishmael’s childhood sweetheart but obeyed her mother and married one of her own kind.<br /><br />Director Scott Hicks (“Shine”) uses a series of flashbacks to shift from the present to the past, often in unexpected, creative ways. Rather than use blurred transitions, abrupt cuts, or actors looking off into the distance, Hicks blends past and present in the same shot so that the viewer recognizes immediately that characters are thinking about past events. This dramatic device also allows the viewer to piece together parts of the mystery concerning Heine’s death and the relationship between young Ishmael and Hatsue.<br /><br />The film is most successful in showing how Japanese families were uprooted from their homes after Pearl Harbor, forced to sell their land at great financial loss and taken to internment camps. A gripping sequence shows FBI agents coming into a Japanese-American home without a warrant and confiscating property even though its occupants are American citizens. Hicks shows numerous families, carrying what possessions they can, walking through the streets or loaded onto trucks, heading for the ferry that will take them to the mainland for incarceration.<br /><br />Hawke has very little dialogue. His strength is reacting, his facial expression conveying Ishmael’s brooding, troubled soul and precisely what is on his mind. Still longing for his childhood sweetheart and doubting he will ever have his father’s moral courage, Ishmael lives in the present and the past, the trial reawakening both hurtful and pleasant memories of his childhood relationship with Hatsue.<br /><br />Ms. Kudoh dominates two of the three major story threads and, like Hawke, is often best in her reactions, as Hatsue and her family are forcibly moved from the only home they’ve known and as she watches her husband’s  murder trial.<br /><br />The supporting cast is uniformly excellent. Max von Sydow plays defense attorney Nels Gudmundsson and has a stand-out scene declaring that humanity is on trial because of the racial prejudice that threatens to overshadow justice. Celia Weston as Carl Heine’s mother is an icy presence as she calmly justifies how her family took unfair advantage of the Miyamotos to buy their land well below market value. Richard Jenkins plays town sheriff Art Moran, who is overwhelmed by the alleged murder at his doorstep and awkwardly conducts an investigation. Well over his head, Art is often flustered and ill-at-ease with his responsibility. James Rebhorn portrays prosecuting attorney Alvin Hooks and James Cromwell is appropriately authoritative as the presiding judge.<br /><br />Rated PG-13, “Snow Falling on Cedars” has some fine moments and succeeds in combining the novel’s elements to illustrate how racism can affect lives in real, insidious ways, but could use some judicious editing since some scenes go on well after their point has been made.<br /><br />The Blu-ray release features a 4K transfer and restoration. Bonus materials include an audio commentary; deleted scenes; “Accident Rules,” a behind-the-scenes look at the genesis, casting, shooting, and post-production of the movie; 2 featurettes; and a theatrical trailer.
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : A murder trial has upset the quiet community of San Piedro, and now this tranquil village has become the center of controversy. For Ishmael Chambers (Academy Award-nominee* Ethan Hawke, Dead Poets Society), a local reporter, the trial strikes a deep emotional chord when he finds his ex-lover is linked to the case. As he investigates the killing, he uncovers some startling clues that lead him to a shocking discovery. Co-starring James Cromwell, Richard Jenkins, Sam Shepard, and Max von Sydow.