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Rising Sun

  • 1993
  • R
  • 2h 9m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
47K
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Rising Sun (1993)
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When an escort girl is found dead in the offices of a Japanese company in Los Angeles, detectives Web Smith and John Connor act as liaison between the company's executives and the investigat... Read allWhen an escort girl is found dead in the offices of a Japanese company in Los Angeles, detectives Web Smith and John Connor act as liaison between the company's executives and the investigating cop Tom Graham.When an escort girl is found dead in the offices of a Japanese company in Los Angeles, detectives Web Smith and John Connor act as liaison between the company's executives and the investigating cop Tom Graham.

  • Director
    • Philip Kaufman
  • Writers
    • Michael Crichton
    • Philip Kaufman
    • Michael Backes
  • Stars
    • Sean Connery
    • Wesley Snipes
    • Harvey Keitel
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.2/10
    47K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Philip Kaufman
    • Writers
      • Michael Crichton
      • Philip Kaufman
      • Michael Backes
    • Stars
      • Sean Connery
      • Wesley Snipes
      • Harvey Keitel
    • 95User reviews
    • 37Critic reviews
    • 56Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination

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    Wesley Snipes and Philip Kaufman in Rising Sun (1993)
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    Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes in Rising Sun (1993)
    Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes in Rising Sun (1993)
    Tia Carrere, Sean Connery, Harvey Keitel, Wesley Snipes, and Tatjana Patitz in Rising Sun (1993)
    Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes in Rising Sun (1993)
    Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes in Rising Sun (1993)
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    Sean Connery
    Sean Connery
    • John Connor
    Wesley Snipes
    Wesley Snipes
    • Webster Smith
    Harvey Keitel
    Harvey Keitel
    • Tom Graham
    Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
    Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
    • Eddie Sakamura
    Kevin Anderson
    Kevin Anderson
    • Bob Richmond
    Mako
    Mako
    • Yoshida-san
    Ray Wise
    Ray Wise
    • Senator John Morton
    Stan Egi
    Stan Egi
    • Ishihara
    Stan Shaw
    Stan Shaw
    • Phillips
    Tia Carrere
    Tia Carrere
    • Jingo Asakuma
    Steve Buscemi
    Steve Buscemi
    • Willy 'the Weasel' Wilhelm
    Tatjana Patitz
    Tatjana Patitz
    • Cheryl Lynn Austin
    Peter Crombie
    Peter Crombie
    • Greg
    Sam Lloyd
    Sam Lloyd
    • Rick
    Alexandra Powers
    Alexandra Powers
    • Julia
    Daniel von Bargen
    Daniel von Bargen
    • Chief Olson…
    Lauren Robinson
    • Zelda 'Zelly' Smith
    Amy Hill
    Amy Hill
    • Hsieh
    • Director
      • Philip Kaufman
    • Writers
      • Michael Crichton
      • Philip Kaufman
      • Michael Backes
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Michael Crichton wrote the part of Connor with Sir Sean Connery in mind.
    • Goofs
      Senator Morton receives a color fax on a machine far too simple a model to accept one.
    • Quotes

      John Connor: The Japanese have a saying, "Fix the problem, not the blame." Find out what's fucked up and fix it. Nobody gets blamed. We're always after who fucked up. Their way is better.

    • Crazy credits
      There is a credit in Rising Sun thanking "The MIT Leg Lab" and "Marc Raibert and his Running Team." This refers to a short scene where the two detectives go out to a fancy-looking research lab (really a water treatment plant; also used as the set for Starfleet Academy on the TV series "Star Trek - The Next Generation). In the background of some of the shots there are two legged robots: one hopping in a circle in a tea-house; the other bouncing up a garden path. These robots are actually academic research projects from the MIT AI Lab's Legged Locomotion Lab. They really do hop about and maintain their balance. Power comes from off-board hydraulic pumps (hence the guy in the background (me!) pulling hoses for the robot), and body attitude is sensed with gyroscopes. A human with a joystick tells the robot what direction to go, and the control algorithms (which are the real subject of Leg Lab research) maintain speed, direction, and balance. However, the robots aren't designed for special effects. They're always being modified, and they tend to break down frequently. This made shooting in the hot july sun of the San Fernando Valley a real nightmare, with transputers crashing in the heat, stuck gyros, and hydraulic leaks. Three grad students and a professor worked steadily for about a month before Hollywood, and then five days on the set and on location to get the robots in about 15 seconds of film. The credits are: Marc Raibert (our prof), and Charles Francois, Rob Playter and Lee Campbell (me) who are students. We three students appear in the film in white lab coats acting like Robot Scientists!!
    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Coneheads/Benefit of the Doubt/Poetic Justice/Another Stakeout/Hocus Pocus (1993)
    • Soundtracks
      Tsunami
      Written by Seiichi Tanaka

      Performed by Seiichi Tanaka and the San Fransisco Taiko Dojo

    User reviews95

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    7/10
    Fear of Other Cultures, Learning to Understand Them and the Seemingly Obvious
    Michael Crichton's Rising Sun is an extensive, dense, unpredictable mess. The actors have a lot of fun and the story is a splurge of entertainment, but it's not paying enough attention to a couple of things. One of them is what its focus is. Is the film about the murder, the two men solving the murder, the clash of American and Japanese cultures, or what? The other thing the film forgets could be a drawback of the first thing. It's that it doesn't tie up all its loose ends. At the end, there are strands left with no ending, even a mysterious ambiguous one. It just ends because it feels the pace of the film requires it to fade out at that particular point.

    The film is not bad, mostly because it's far from boring. In fact, there are many scenes of dialogue, despite a few corny scenes of dialogue, that are subtly interesting. We don't quite understand why the exchanges are interesting until later, when we realize that the characters are so deeply contemplated that the scene felt as real as the room you're sitting in. But maybe I'm giving the film too much credit for simply being a load of fun for Michael Crichton to write. After all, he wrote and directed one of the greatest heist films ever made, The Great Train Robbery, also with Sean Connery.

    Sean Connery, of course, is the highlight of the film, because there's hardly a way he cannot be. Despite his irrepressible suavity, he does not play himself. He plays a resentful, inflexible, self-indulgent veteran cop, and we are supposed to like Wesley Snipes more because the film centers, well, seems to want to center around his character and also we're given more backstory and information on him. However, we don't like Snipes more than him. Connery may play a stubborn old jerk, but I'd rather one of those than a pompous, intolerant, overpround young jerk like Snipes can hardly help but play.

    I cannot reach a verdict on this film. How can I? There are so many things to enjoy at the same time they are hazardous to the film's health.
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    • Jun 15, 2007

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • July 30, 1993 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Сонце, що сходить
    • Filming locations
      • Nate Starkman & Son Building - 544 Mateo St, Los Angeles, California, USA(Jingo's loft)
    • Production companies
      • Twentieth Century Fox
      • Walrus & Associates
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $35,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $63,179,523
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $15,195,941
      • Aug 1, 1993
    • Gross worldwide
      • $107,198,790
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 9 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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