Hindi Rising Sun

Hindi Rising Sun

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 act as liaison between the company's executives and the investigating cop Tom Graham.
Philip Kaufman has a knack of making huge productions out of the simplest stories or projects. And RISING SUN is not exception. There's nothing memorable about this, except for the shot of a beautiful woman sprawled on a conference table. Kaufman seems to confuse over-direction with greatness. This story is just a pulpy-kind of story and yet Kaufman directs it as if it was Shakespeare. Wesley Snipes is good even if his role is thankless. And Sean Connery plays, well, Sean Connery. Or James Bond as played by Sean Connery. I don't get his appeal one bit. Anyway, RISING SUN is VERY dated these days and what flashy quality it used to have in 1993 is almost all gone today, which makes the movie look even more shallow and pointless.
i really liked this movie. I taped the movie and I kept having to go back and rerun parts so that I could figure the parts out. i never do that.<br/><br/>I like Sean Connery was great. I liked the ending. I hope the young couple got together. The think I didn&#39;t like was the sentors wife reaction was a joke. It was like that a cut from a horror movie just thrown in as a joke. I loved the car that the victim and the accused drove off in was really cool.
In the final analysis, Rising Sun is yet another book-to-movie conversion that loses something in the translation. Despite the always-welcome presence of Sean Connery, the film fails to satisfy completely. There are a few too many plot holes and logical errors. Rising Sun may be solidly-paced, but not all aspects of the production are as successful.
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