Four years after "Shine," Hicks returns with another tale of a man reflecting on and facing the consequences of the events of his childhood. His film opens in the courtroom, where we learn that Kazuo Miyamoto (Rick Yune) is on trial for the murder of Carl Heine (Eric Thal, "A Stranger Among Us") who was found drowned in his fishing nets with a bash to his head. The two were boyhood friends who were forced …showed first 75 words of 947 total…

…showed last 75 words of 947 total…I never felt anything more than an arm's length closeness to the story of "Snow Falling On Cedars." It's an interesting telling of the unforgivable treatment that the US government inflicted on its own people. For all the camps like Manzanar, where the Japanese-Americans were interned, there were none for the Germans or Italians in the US at the time - a point the film makes, strongly. I give "Snow Falling On Cedars" a B-.