Rising Sun (WS) [DVD]

Irreverent, brainy, stylish and filled undercurrents of clashes from police, cultural, corporate, political, technology. This movie, like Crichton's book is a great suspense story that lets us into a world of cut-throat corporations jockeying for control of tech and narrative. I enjoyed the detective cat and mouse game, along with the variations from the book.I don't get folks who claim there were "stereotypes" here. The movie, like it's book source material, offers a spectrum of filled in Japanese characters of various, assimilated to insoluble, honorable to gray to less reputable types that parallel their American counterparts, who also equally come with their skeletons in the closet. Like Crichton's book, the crime and it's investigation are almost just the background to these high stakes business clashes that suck in all who come near them to pick sides.Snipes does well as a detective/liason trying to assist in a murder investigation, while frustrated with restricting ettiquette imposed on him and having the tables turned on him as he learns more. Connery is great as a wise well schooled in the world, somewhat bitter and hypocritical at times "Senior Man" guiding his junior police partner. But for me, it was Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa who stole the movie as the irreverent, epicurean, Americanized, politically savvy Eddie Sakamura. He's first presented as a partying, fast cars, fast women loving scion at the start, but that's just a facade. As the maneuvering by players continues, there's more to him and his playing hardball against a rival Japanese corporation for his fathers's interest. I found myself rooting for the guy, even with some of his morally questionable decisions.This is a rich, re-watchable movie. I was swept up by it's brisk pace the first time. There's always something going on, some person or group trying to play an angle. On re-watch, I was able to enjoy piecing together all the different players maneuvering against one another. Very enjoyable.

One of the films that showed culture indifference in a realistic way.

Good movie but not one you can watch over and over

Rising Sun is a crime drama featuring Wesley Snipes as a LA police detective and Sean Connery as a former cop and Japanese expert. A Japanese company is in negotiations to buy a high-tech American firm called Microcon when an American woman is killed at the Japanese company’s headquarters. The movie is a good mystery but it’s full of stereotypes about the Japanese.The story does a good job building up the story. The woman killed hung out with a Japanese gangster played by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa who is the obvious suspect but that’s deception. The problem is this comes wrapped in a bunch of cliches about the Japanese. Connery for example goes into all kinds of protocol you have to go through to interact with Japanese. He says nothing is at it appears implying that the Japanese are deceptive. “Business is war” is said by the Tagawa like the Japanese look at companies different than Americans. On top of that Connery’s Japanese accent is HORRIBLE. If you can cut through all that garbage the police procedural part of the movie is good.Snipes is actually a better character than Connery’s. Snipes gets to cop an attitude plus he’s smart but everyone ignores that because he’s black.

Sir Sean and Mr. Wesley do a good job as contrasting types of police officer in a good crime puzzler involving Japanese businessmen negotiating for purchase of an American company. At a party for leaders of the Los Angeles community a young woman is murdered while having sex involving choking to increase the sexual pleasure. In this case, the choking went too far. Sir Sean's police officer character (in semi-retirement) is called into the case to help out police officer Snipes; his character is the expert on Japanese culture. There are many illusions created by one party or another as the investigation is vigorously pursued, pursued, however, with official reluctance to anger the business people. Connery gives a polished, controlling performance, Snipes a rather less effective one, natural given the experience differential that existed at that point in each's career. The supporting cast does quite a good job in providing examples of the contrasting cultural ways. While not first rate, the picture should provide a gratifying couple of hours for most general viewers.It is over 20 years since I read the book so that it is not possible for me to comment on the relationship of movie to the original source. Since I don't believe movies should try to duplicate a book on film (an impossible task since the media involve so fundamentally different forms of communication) that made no difference to me.

Fast shipped.. Excellent condition.. Much appreciated

My son loves all of Wesley Snipes movies, it played well. It came in the mail very clean.

Awesome movie 🎥 👌

The idea of Sean Connery playing a Scottish expert on Japanese culture, whilst investigating a brutal murder in corporate Los Angeles, holds about as much water as my old grandfather's leaky bladder, but here we are, with Wesley Snipes in tow, brining evil to justice, and educating us about Japanese business superiority, along the way.Connery is one of those timeless actors. No matter what film he's in, he always seems to play the same role. Soviet Submarine captains, immortal Spaniards, James Bond...Connery is Connery, and his career is all the more better for it. Like Michael Caine or even Tom Cruise, he moves from role to role, but the accent is always there. The persona overshadows the role.Based on the Michael Crichton best seller, this is Connery by the numbers - solving murders, educating the dumb (Wesley Snipes) and dropping some great one-liners along the way.Yes, we've seen this sort of film a hundred times before, but it's still a damn good slice of entertainment.

Japan based crime drama, very good

I ordered this movie because I saw it many years ago, and I remembered it as being a very good movie. After I watched it again I had the same great feeling as I had back then.The movie is about 2 policemen who are trying to solve a murder on a women, committed at a big Japanese company.They are led in one direction in their investigation, when they watch a tape that shows the murderer, but they finds out that every thing isn't as i seems to be, and starts to ask questions about the origin of the tape.Their chief of staff, just want to close the case down, and charge the guy on the tape, but Snipes and Connery decides to investigate the case more deeply themselves.Rising Sun has a lot of unexpected turns, and the coolest thing about it is that Connery an Snipes are so brilliant together as police partners.This is a movie, where You just sit back and relax and enjoy the show!

Excellent film, great cast and plot.

I wanted to compare the film with the book which I had finally got around to reading. Faithful adaptation.