The Rising Sun

The Rising Sun

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.
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.
This is one hell of a suspense story with very intriguing plot and twists & turns. Especially the charater of conner has more angles than a ordinary mystery movie. The depth of Japanese culture is shown brilliantly. In all a must see. For those sean connery fans, this is far superior than any of his Bond movies.
Rising Sun is a reasonable action-movie, but I find Sean Connery's part and acting in this particular movie quite ridiculous. He is playing the wise old man who teaches his apprentice in Japanese manners. The way he does that is by not saying what his connections to the Japanese mafia and business leaders are, and when he is asked by Wesley Snipes he uses bad phrases, like: My grandfather used to say, a rope twisted around your left ankle is better than one around the neck. Both the audience and Wesley Snipes fails to see the point in such a lyrical sentence and I think this is very humiliating to the Japanese tradition of important rules of conduct.
Rising Sun boasts shiny, shiny production values befitting a big-budgeted Sean Connery vehicle adapted from a bestselling novel, but scratch the glossy surface and Rising Sun reveals itself to be a Cinemax-ready B-movie, complete with a rogue’s gallery of villains, each tackier and more ridiculous than the last.
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