| Ethan Hawke | Ishmael Chambers |
| James Cromwell | Judge Fielding |
| Richard Jenkins | Sheriff Art Moran |
| James Rebhorn | Alvin Hooks |
| Sam Shepard | Arthur Chambers |
| Eric Thal | Carl Heine Jr. |
| Max von Sydow | Nels Gudmundsson |
| Youki Kudoh | Hatsue Miyamoto |
| Rick Yune | Kazuo Miyamoto |
| Jan Rubes | Ole Jurgensen |
| Celia Weston | Etta Heine |
| Max Wright | Horace Whaley |
| Arija Barbikis | Susan Marie Heine |
| Zeljko Ivanek | Dr. Whitman |
| Caroline Kava | Helen Chambers |
| Zak Orth | Deputy Abel Martinson |
| Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | Zenhichi Miyamoto |
| Daniel von Bargen | Carl Heine |
| Reeve Carney | Young Ishmael Chambers |
| Anne Suzuki | Young Hatsue Imada |
A small-town reporter covers the murder trial of a Japanese-American and learns that the man's wife was his childhood sweetheart.
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