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Litigation

Feb. 4, 2000

A Courtroom Drama Where the Optimists Win

Movie Review By Paul Frizler "Snow Falling on Cedars," a film based on the widely acclaimed 1996 novel of the same name by David Guterson, focuses on Kabuo Miyamoto, a Japanese-American charged with the murder of Carl Heine, a German-American fisherman. Set in the 1950s on a remote fictional island of San Piedro in the Pacific Northwest, "Snow" tells a number of related and chilling stories of a forbidden interracial romance, a mysterious and suspicious death, traumatic wartime violence

By Paul Frizler
        "Snow Falling on Cedars," a film based on the widely acclaimed 1996 novel of the same name by David Guterson, focuses on Kabuo Miyamoto, a Japanese-American charged with the murder of Carl Heine, a German-American fisherman. Set in the 1950s on a remote fictional island of San Piedro in the Pacific Northwest, "Snow" tells a number of related and chilling stories o...

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