a5c7b9f00b At the offices of a Japanese corporation, during a party, a woman, who's evidently a professional mistress, is found dead, apparently after some rough sex. A police detective, Web Smith is called in to investigate but before getting there, he gets a call from someone who instructs him to pick up John Connor, a former police Captain and expert on Japanese affairs. When they arrive there Web thinks that everything is obvious but Connor tells him that there's a lot more going on.
When an escort girl is found dead in the offices of a Japanese company in Los Angeles, detectives Web Smith and John Connor actliaison between the company's executives and the investigating cop Tom Graham.
Michael Crichton's novel about murder and merger servesthe basis for a fine thriller of a film. For Sean Connery fans they will be pleased with what Connery does in this film.<br/><br/>Wesley Snipes plays a Los Angeles homicide detective who has it insisted to him that he bring retired police captain Connery along with him to solve a murder committed in one of those glass tower buildings owned by a Japanese firm. The book and the film were made at a time it seemed that the Japanese were acquiring a lot of things American and were beating us at our capitalist game. <br/><br/>Connery is quite a lover of Japanese culture and tradition in addition to possessing a keen eye for subtle nuances. His presence proves to be invaluable.<br/><br/>The murder is that of a high priced mistress and it looks like she was strangled during some rough sex. In fact the Japanese who have a very different attitude toward privacy and tape everything and everyone have the room under video surveillance. The tape they supply shows a US Senator Ray Wise doing the deed. A lovely piece of blackmail since his vote in the Senate is a key one to get.<br/><br/>But Connery doesn't buy it and eventually the truth is learned.<br/><br/>Both Connery and Snipes are manipulated to a first solution and then to a correct one. The subtleties of the Oriental mind.<br/><br/>Rising Sun is an OK thriller. It certainly gets a bit paranoiac about the Japanese taking over the country. Fears about that certainly proved to be premature.<br/><br/>Cary-Hiroyki Tagawaan up and coming Japanese yuppie businessman who has the solution and is part of it should be singled out for praise. As wellHarvey Keitel playing a Philistine American cop who symbolizes the ugly American in his own country. Good thing he had Snipes and Connery along. I'm agreeing with a lot of other reviewers who think Steve Buscemi was totally wasted in a role that proved superfluous to the film and went nowhere. I'm betting in the book he had a more central purpose to the plot.<br/><br/>Sean Connery's world wide legion of fans should enjoy this.
Around the period when Michael Crichton adaptations seemed to be the "it" thing (after the success of "Jurassic Park"), Crichton's "Rising Sun" would be the next one off the ranks this time by film-maker Philip Kaufman. Two cops, one an expert in the Japanese culture are put on the case of a dead woman found in a boardroom of a Japanese Los Angeles corporation building. It was quite a modest, if thinly plotted mystery thriller with an exceptional performance by Sean Connery. While the paranoid story was a manipulative puzzle with cultural, corporation and political subtexts, things just seem to happen with little depth to why and when answered it came off too easy. Sure it could be suspenseful, but the lead characters (Snipes and Connery) never felt like they were in any real sort of threat, because they knew what was coming (well more so Connery's character). Rarely does it create a false state of mind. Kaufman's slick direction of this highly produced production is economical, but his on cruise control directing from the stuffy script. Too bad because it's a fascinating set-up, but the execution for most part is thematically lukewarm. Wesley Snipes is workable across from Connery, forming a decent chemistry. Harvey Keitel provides some bite and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa the flair. Also the cast features Tia Carrere, Ray Wise and Mako. A diverting, but less than creative exercise.
A wasted effort with a limp storyline that fails to do Michael Crichton's book justice.
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