Movie: Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
Tagline: First loves last. Forever.
Trivia: Ishmael never once pronounces the love-of-his-life’s name correctly. He always calls her “Hat-sue” not by her real Japanese name “Ha-Tsu-E”.
Goofs: Continuity: When the sheriff and Susan Marie talk in the kitchen, the diaper on her shoulder disappears.
“Carl, a fisherman in the waters off Washington state, has been found dead, drowned in his own nets, but with a serious head wound. Was he murdered? Post-war anti-Japanese sentiments are still running high, and a murder suspect is found in the local Japanese-American community in the form of Kabuo, another fisherman, who had a grudge against Carl’s family. Ishmael, the small town’s newspaperman, may have the information that would acquit Kabuo, but can he ever put his jilted love for Hatsue (Kazuo’s wife) aside? Written by Martin Lewison <mlewison@utk.edu>”
