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Rising Sun [1993]
from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
starring Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kevin Anderson
directed by Philip Kaufman

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• PAL
• Widescreen

Editorial Review:

Author Michael Crichton and director Philip Kaufman had a falling-out over the script for Rising Sun, based on Crichton's best-selling novel (which was controversial for its take on the Japanese invasion of American business in the early 1990s). Kaufman ultimately won, doing an above-average job creating a murder-mystery based on the culture clash between Los Angeles cops and Japanese multinational business interests. When a prostitute is murdered at the opening of a new LA headquarters for a Japanese company, detective Wesley Snipes is forced to call upon retired cop (and Japanophile) Sean Connery to help solve the murder. But he runs into obstruction from the Japanese, as well as a high-tech cover-up, while having to deal with anti-Japanese sentiments from people on his own team. Rising Sun is intriguing, if overlong. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• One of Crichton's best novels becomes a below-par thriller
  Rising Sun is a textbook example of how to take a sure-fire, can't lose property and muck it up completely. It's not just a matter of the producers controversially changing the nationality of the killer that makes Rising Sun such a appointment: where Michael Crichton's novel weaved a multi-stranded web, turning issues into clues and bombarding the reader with information and clues to keep you guessing, director Philip Kaufman simplifies and makes it all patently predictable. Subplots are poorly handled,... more info

• Moderate Adaptation of a Crichton Best Seller
  Michael Crichton is the king of details when comes to his books. His stories go down to the absolute detailed mechanics of their subject so that we arise knowing a little more about it then we did when we started - This is a guy who does his homework. Rising Sun was about eccentricities of a competitive Japanese conglomerate. He really got inside this world and gave you a feel for what it must be like on the inside.
  What aggravates me about `Rising Sun' as a movie is that it seems to have been adapted... more info

• A great movie time & time again
  this movie is the best the "who-done-it" mystery/suspense genere...simply in my opnion cos you can watch it time and time again and not get bored with it.

  Sean Connery is on his usuall top form which mkes wesley Snipes performace that much better.

  a great supporting cast and a wonderfull story that will thrill for years to come.

  A must for any movie fan.

• Sean Connery at his best
  An excellant movie, a crime thriller that keeps you guessing from start to finish. Brilliant cast members and acting, a must see for any fans of Connery or Snipes. However there is a dissapointing lack of extra features on the DVD version.

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