Wow. Why am I so in love with the smoothness of this flick? Because it has got EVERYTHING. It has suspense, really good suspense, because this story will entice you till the very end. Plot twists and turns that keep you on the edge of your seat. It has got eroticism, really hot stuff, thanks to the incredible gorgeous models. It has got treacherous deceit, betrayal between bloodrelatives. It has got corruption, racism, sexism, violence and slow deaths. I could better start mentioning what it hasnt got, because "Rising Sun" is an ideal blend of EVERYTHING you could wish for in a detective. What's the story? A gorgeous model gets raped and killed at a big Japanese company. Wesley Snipes and Sean Connery play 2 detectives who are called to the scene of the crime. The rest of the movie is a cat and mouse game to find out who raped and killed the model.Sean Connery is at his peak, playing the older and wiser detective who keeps paraphrasing chinese philosophers quotes, that are simultaneously deep and funny. Wesley Snipes plays the gung ho macho cop. Then there is Harvey Keitel. These 3 act at the top of their talents and they are to die for. It really is a macho kind of movie but with enough funny oneliners that one doesnt have to take it too seriously. The only thing that makes it a little dated is the use of old technology. Back then it was never seen before that you could alter video images. No one under the age of 30 can imagine that now. But besides the outdated technology, this detective is still really alluring and enjoyable. It isnt a comedy, but it sure as hell has got a lot of great tongue in cheek jokes. Really lovely, thrilling detective with excellent humor at the right moments so we wont take everything too seriously. Excellent blend !!! Seen it many times now and it stays fresh because of the excellent and witty dialogues and the ever charming Sean Connery!

Rising Sun is a forgotten decent underrated mystery thriller based on Michael Crichton's novel and that a good one. It is definitely the best of Sean Connery and the best one of Wesley Snipes. I know a lot of people are asking me the questions how come I like this movie but I totally dislike Passenger 57 but I like this one. For starters Passenger 57 is so cheese peace a s***t of a film who only grab cash and copy on a bad way Die Hard 1 and 2. This movie I like a lot and it is Wesley Snipes best performance a long side Sean Connery. Those two actors did an excellent job. The only problem with the film I have it is way too long and has less action, they could have done a little better the choreography but the rest was good. Based on Michael Crichton's provocative bestseller "this smart engrossing and electrically charged" thriller is as entertaining as it is thought provoking. A special liaison officer (Snipes) is called in to investigate the murder of a call girl in the boardroom of a Japanese corporation. Accompanied by a detective (Connery) with unusual knowledge of the Japanese Culture the two men must unreval the mystery behind the murder by entering an underground "shadow world" of futuristic technology ancient ways and confusing loyalties.Also the cast includes Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kevin Anderson, Mako, Tia Carrere, Ray Wise and Stan Shaw. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa plays mostly the bad guys in the movies in this movie he plays the good guy who is a framed for a murder of his estranged girlfriend he didn't commit. Mako plays Yoshida-san, the President of the Nakamoto Corporation. I really miss the actor he does such a good job playing the good guys like he was in The Perfect Weapon with Jeff Speakman. Sean Connery does an excellent job who plays A Scottish-born cultural liaison to the Japanese and a former Police Captain who is know with Japanese Culture and he worked there for years he knows Yoshida-san. This movie has so much Japanese Culture to tell with Sean Connery in it. Sean is so similar in the Japan that he played the character James Bond 007 in Japanese Culture in the movie You Only Live Twice (1967). Wesley Snipes does a better job playing Lt. Webster "Web" Smith LAPD police detective who also knows martial arts. In real life Wesley is real black belt in karate a martial artists. The movie is no were near classic cinema. But it does hold up pretty well some 24 years later. Connery is always perfect in every role he plays, and Wesley Snipes (at the beginning of his popularity) proves his acting chops going up against Connery and respectfully Harvey Kietel. The movie is played of as a old fashioned type film noir but doesn't quite make it. For it's time it was an interesting mind thriller. Today it's a basic who-done-it. To me this movie is one of my favorite Wesley Snipes films and that a good one, a lot Connery and Snipes complement each other as a "buddy" cop duo with Connery being mostly responsible for making this story interesting. The still-suave ex-James Bond plays the cool veteran and it's fun to watch him operate. The movie3 is so mystery it self who killed that call girl in the boardroom I always forget who was the killer and mostly why so good this movie to me is. This movie to me get's a B 7/10 but today no one talks about this film. Like it doesn't exist on YouTube no one mentions it so for me it is a forgotten but well great flick from Michael Crichton who also wrote a lot of good novels who are based on the good films: Jurassic Park, Disclosure, Congo, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, The 13th Warrior and Timeline.R.I.P. Michael Crichton who died in November 4, 2008 and Mako who died in July 21 2006 you two are really missed. I miss this kind off movies, they don't make'em like are this one today. I miss these movies I hate 2017 movies are not that good like are this one today. Rising Sun is a 1993 American crime film written and directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Sean Connery (who was also an executive producer), Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Michael Crichton and Michael Backes wrote the screenplay, based on Crichton's novel of the same name.7/10 Grade: B Studio: 20th Century Fox Starring: Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kevin Anderson, Mako, Tia Carrere, Ray Wise, Stan Shaw Director: Philip Kaufman Producer: Peter Kaufman Writter: Michael Crichton, Philip Kaufman, Michael Backes Based on Rising Sun by Michael Crichton Rated: R Running Time: 2 Hrs. 09 Mins. Budget: $35.000.000 Box Office: $107,198,790

I'm choosing not to rate this flick, in part because I walked out after about 10 minutes. I think it's only fair.I went with my (then) wife to a movie theater to see it. The first 10 minutes were a cavalcade of cleverly deployed scenario work and imagery designed to make you hate/resent the Japanese, as a race.I'm reminded of a bit near the end of Mark Alan Stamaty's original "Washingtoons" book, where Senator Bob Forehead is talking with his wife, Ginger. He's by now completely immersed in and in thrall to Beltway-think, and he's haranguing Ginger about how he has to work so hard to stay abreast with the emotional-response demands of his job. He tells her that the Washington ideological collective hive-mind is constantly shifting... "For example: Do you hate Japan, yet?" he says. Ginger says, "No." "Damn it, woman! How do you expect to survive here if you can't keep up?!?!?!"From time to time, it really does appear that Hollywood plies its wares to serve zeitgeist production needs emanating from Washington. For example, I consider Top Gun to have been a flick that sought to normalize the view that having the most rarefied, highest-tech death machines is (for America) as natural and emotionally salubrious as a roll in the hay.The thing about Rising Sun is its almost artless obviousness: At least Top Gun wove a kind of myth--you could still see the propagandistic marionette strings, but if you closed your eyes and shook your head a couple of times and they'd obligingly disappear. The opening 10 minutes of Rising Sun is an almost textbook opportunity to study how the buttons get pushed to drive home an ideological message: "It's now time to hate the Japanese."I wanted none of this, so I walked out.>>> side note: I didn't realize it at the time, but my (now ex-)wife had implanted fears which could be triggered by filmed sexuality. She willingly joined me as I made for the door, but for a different reason; because the Jap-john/Anglo-hooker scene was heating up, and it was making her queasy. She didn't see any of the stuff I talk about, above. <<<

I basically watched this movie due to the fact that Toru Takemitsu for some reason got sucked into doing this ignorant film. If you have seen any of his work on Hiroshi Teshigahara's, Masaki Kobayashi's or Akira Kurosawa's films you know why I would be interested. From the opening credits I new this was going to be a train wreck when they decided to add Chinese gongs over Takemitsu's otherwise realistic Japanese style score, thus beginning the baffling ignorant betrayal of these Japanese people as sex crazed, backwards criminals whom only a westerner, well studied in Japanese culture can communicate with, as well as manipulate them like they were simpletons or something. I gather they even twisted Takemitsu's arm (who usually had a very minimalistic approach to scoring at key moments) into doing a continual Japanese score to remind us constantly that we are dealing with a mysterious and sinister culture here. Beyond this the acting is like what you would find in a a Jim Jarmusch film (ie: bad), and you can't help but feel sorry for Harvey Keitel who wouldn't be able to act badly if he tried, and Sean Connery and, well, the whole cast when you think about it, who are stuck with this director and script, both of which were not up to par with the ambition they were aiming for (I'm guessing intellectual thriller). Also, is it so hard to fly over some Japanese actors or find Japanese Americans for the parts instead of getting just any Asian? Bad accents galore! I must admit, I only watched about half an hour of it, but I can guess that it doesn't get any better later. Hell, I didn't really even care about the woman who was killed anyway.