Rising Sun

Rising Sun is based on Michael Crichton’s acclaimed novel about the subtleties of Japanese-American business relations and the innermost workings of corporate intrigue. The story is a classic murder-mystery involving fetishistic sex scenes which have become something of a trademark for director Philip Kaufman. Los Angeles police officer Web Smith (Wesley Snipes) is called in to investigate the murder of an attractive woman found asphyxiated in the board room of an enormous Japanese corporation in downtown L.A. Once on the crime scene he is partnered with John Connor (Sean Connery), a mysterious tradition-wise Japanophile detective, whose sees their relationship as one of the age-old Japanese business custom of sempai/kohai, or student/teacher in which he is the senior partner and Smith, to his annoyance, is the junior partner during the homicide and coverup investigation. In the process of tracking down the killer, they make the startling discovery that in the dangerous business world they’ve entered, technology has the power to manipulate reality and turn the truth into the deadliest weapon of all.