Snow Falling on Cedars: First Loves Last.... Forever.

Watched this today again as it was on one of the movie channel and i couldnt resist it and i still cried at the end :)
 
I dont think i noticed until it showed that he had something chopped off, or probably on the beach where he wanted to hold her
 
I seriously think I noticed in one of the scenes when he's waiting for Hatsue outside of the courtroom. It was a "wait a minute" moment. :lol:
 
We should have really noticed shouldnt we lol since he was only using his one arm
 
Cool :)

Was it only me that didnt notice at first that Ishmael didnt have a arm, i only noticed half-way through the movie didnt one
 
Definately

Its even more painful as she's his first ever love, they grew up together from kids to teens and one day she just left - writing him a letter, saying i dont love you

The dialogues in this movie are heart-felt as well
 
Indeed. :nod: He had such a crappy life and the moments he spent with Hatsue were probably even more of a paradise for him in his memeries.

Oh, I know. I can't even imagine. It's so painful to watch too, but kind of beautiful.
 
Well he kept that letter safely and also like his mother said he's become numb all these years like going to war and losing the arm

It must of been so hard for him to even see Hatsue with another man - that pain buried right in him :(
 
Cool! :nod:



Yes. It's hard to watch at times because he loves and wants her so much, but it makes the entire story really poignant. Thus the letter, everything becomes a small treature for him.
 
Love the icons, will put them in the I/H appreciation thread :)

You can feel Ishmael's love, loneliness and unhappiness - Ethan portrayed it well

Whilst Ishmael gave his all to Hatsue when they were together, Hatsue held back and then the decision she took and writing the letter
 
Oh, I know! I love the "sometimes I love you" part because it gave Ishmael hope that she did love him after all.

Ethan Hawke did such a great job. He seemed so in love and broken that they weren't together as adults. It was so moving and sad. She seemed cold but underneath, you knew she was also moved by him.

I remember making some icons like 3 years ago. lol

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:)

I also want to see it again, definately have to get the dvd - i really wished i watched it when it first came out

I cried as well at the end, esp at the beginning of the end/last trial
At that letter Hatsue wrote him, that was heart-breaking

I also suggest getting the book :)
 
Thanks for this! I love this movie so much. I cried at the end. I never read the book, but the movie was so sentimental and sad. :sigh: I have to watch it again.
 
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Official Site - Snow Falling On Cedars
YouTube - Snow Falling On Cedars Trailer

This was released in 1999/2000 - i just recently watcheed this movie and also have the book by David Gutherson, i enjoyed the movie very much, i even cried and felt Ishmael love/feeling for Hatsue and his loneliness

Anybody else watched it?

Ishmael/Hasute Appreciation Thread link at the end


STORY/SYPNOSIS
Fog as thick and palpable as cotton hangs suspended over San Piedro Island. On the bay, a flickering lantern signals distress from a crippled fishing boat, while elsewhere a freighter lurches blindly through the chalky mist. By morning, sea and sky are clear, but the tranquil village of fisherman and berry farmers will forever be changed. For one man has lost his life, and another -a childhood friend- has been charged with taking it. An investigation is launched. The trial begins.

A reporter covering the trial, Ishmael Chambers, sits in the courtroom, carefully observing the person with whom he shared the rapturous secrets of childhood, the only woman he has ever loved. Hatsue, the defendant's wife. Their tortured relationship will have an unexpected bearing on the trial of Kazuo Miyamoto, which serves to frame Snow Falling On Cedars.

Yet within this labyrinth lies an even more deeply hidden secret: the haunting childhood love of Ishmael (Ethan Hawke) and Hatsue (Youki Kudoh). As children they worked alongside each other in the fields, he for pocket money and she to help her family. In their teen years they were exceptionally cautious. Forbidden by custom to have an open relationship, they secretly met in the hollow of a giant cedar. Now, they meet in a courtroom where Hatsue's husband, Kazuo, is accused of murder.

The truth about this tragedy will ultimately emerge, not from legal proceedings but from the deepest, most tender chamber of the human heart.

http://www.fanforum.com/f88/ishmael-hatsue-snow-falling-cedars-appreciation-1-first-loves-last-forever-62850793/

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