1. What is the film about?
2. What are the major symbols in the film and how are they used? What is the overall message of the film?
9 – Compare the parents of Kazuo, Ishmael, Hatuse, and Karl Heine, Jr. How do they shape the values of their children and reflect the prejudices of their community?
24. What is the significance of the climate changes (the rain, the blizzard) throughout the film?
28. Why do you think Ishmael finally decided to help Kabuo Miyamoto in his trial, despite his hatred for the Japanese and his bitterness towards Hatsue for leaving him?
33. Snow Falling on Cedars opens in the middle of Kabuo Miyamoto's trial. What effect does the film create by withholding background information of the trial and introducing it in the form of flashbacks? Where else are critical revelations postponed?
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