• Director: Scott Hicks
  • Release Year: 1999
  • Production Country: United States
  • Language: English, Japanese, German

Snow Falling on Cedars

Description

In Washington state, a local fisherman, Kabuo, is accused of murdering another fisherman, Carl, and the only person in town who can help is the young white journalist whose love for Kabuo's wife was thwarted by racial tensions years prior.

Themes

World War II (1939 – 1945), Japanese-American internment, Social justice, Race relations, Journalism, Cold War, Literature