a5c7b9f00b 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.
Scenes of cowboys on horseback, and Cole Porter&#39;s &quot;Don&#39;t Fence Me In&quot;… reassuring cultural markers which quickly dissolve as we find ourselves in the steely 19990&#39;s in a Los Angeles that has been snaffled by the Japanese. The western and the music are mere karaoke images. Americans had better learn how to bow, because their masters are moving in.<br/><br/>&quot;Rising Sun&quot; is a sophisticated thriller which flips neatly between fear of the sinister Japanese (electronic surveillance, big business buyouts, Yakuza) and a deep understanding of, and reverence for, Japanese culture. Wesley Snipes plays Web Smith, a lieutenant in the LAPD assigned to investigate a murder on the Los Angeles premises of a Japanese corporation. He has Captain John Connor attached to him (Sean Connery), an older man who is believed to have &#39;gone native&#39; and sold his soul to the Japanese.<br/><br/>At every turn, American short-sightedness is losing out to the Japanese hardball players. One of the film&#39;s morals is, if we don&#39;t like the way they are buying up our assets, we have no business selling them in the first place. Japanese strength comes from the social discipline and immense intellectual vigour of their way of life. &quot;We may come from a fragmented MTV-rap-video culture,&quot; says Conner, &quot;but they do not.&quot;<br/><br/>Conner has studied the eastern way and is respected by the Japanese for his grace and learning. He guides Web Smith along the path of enlightenment in the course of solving the murder mystery. They adopt the traditional sampai-kohai relationship, the tutelage of a wise elder from which a worthy young man learns.<br/><br/>In this story of cutting-edge video fakery, the film exploits images intelligently. We see reflections of Web and Jingo on the TV monitor as they analyse the &#39;ghost&#39;. Connor effects a clever &#39;look-back&#39; on the lab&#39;s video camera, hinting at hidden permutations in the characters&#39; relationships. Time after time, we are led persuasively down a line of reasoning, only to find that it is a chimera. As Connor says, &quot;When something looks too good to be true, then it&#39;s not true.&quot;<br/><br/>There are some weaknesses in the film&#39;s structure. &#39;The Weasel&#39;, the journalist tracking Web, is badly misconceived. His place in the story is negligible and his dramatic possibilities are abandoned almost as soon as he is introduced. The reliance of Web on his old &#39;brothers&#39; to intimidate the Japanese pursuers is lame and patronising, with its &#39;boyz&#39;n&#39;the hood&#39; silliness. To describe these &#39;rough neighbourhoods&#39; as &#39;America&#39;s last great advantage&#39; is patent hogwash. The corrupt senator is the tired stock-in-trade of these thrillers, and fails to convince. The reaction of Morton&#39;s wife to the fax transmissions is utterly unrealistic and melodramatic. That two LAPD cops should beat up half a dozen Japanese thugs using karate is frankly insulting, even to Japanese thugs.<br/><br/>The performance of Sean Connery is very impressive. He plays Connor with the clear intelligence and the confidence in his own powers which such a man would surely possess. He alone understands both cultures, and therefore he alone can solve the riddle. Because Connery is convincing, the film is a success.
Michael Crichton&#39;s novel about murder and merger serves as the basis for a fine thriller of a film. For Sean Connery fans they will be pleased with what Connery does in this film.<br/><br/>Wesley Snipes plays a Los Angeles homicide detective who has it insisted to him that he bring retired police captain Connery along with him to solve a murder committed in one of those glass tower buildings owned by a Japanese firm. The book and the film were made at a time it seemed that the Japanese were acquiring a lot of things American and were beating us at our capitalist game. <br/><br/>Connery is quite a lover of Japanese culture and tradition in addition to possessing a keen eye for subtle nuances. His presence proves to be invaluable.<br/><br/>The murder is that of a high priced mistress and it looks like she was strangled during some rough sex. In fact the Japanese who have a very different attitude toward privacy and tape everything and everyone have the room under video surveillance. The tape they supply shows a US Senator Ray Wise doing the deed. A lovely piece of blackmail since his vote in the Senate is a key one to get.<br/><br/>But Connery doesn&#39;t buy it and eventually the truth is learned.<br/><br/>Both Connery and Snipes are manipulated to a first solution and then to a correct one. The subtleties of the Oriental mind.<br/><br/>Rising Sun is an OK thriller. It certainly gets a bit paranoiac about the Japanese taking over the country. Fears about that certainly proved to be premature.<br/><br/>Cary-Hiroyki Tagawa as an up and coming Japanese yuppie businessman who has the solution and is part of it should be singled out for praise. As well as Harvey Keitel playing a Philistine American cop who symbolizes the ugly American in his own country. Good thing he had Snipes and Connery along. I&#39;m agreeing with a lot of other reviewers who think Steve Buscemi was totally wasted in a role that proved superfluous to the film and went nowhere. I&#39;m betting in the book he had a more central purpose to the plot.<br/><br/>Sean Connery&#39;s world wide legion of fans should enjoy this.
The flaws don't cripple what is a fiercely funny, exciting and provocative detective story about the crimes of corporate culture — crimes that transcend race and geography.
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