# Rising Sun (1993)

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**Runtime**: 129 min
**Genres**: Action, Drama, Thriller
**Directed by**: Philip Kaufman
**Written by**: Michael Crichton, Philip Kaufman, Michael Backes
**Starring**: Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Tia Carrere, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Harvey Keitel, Mako

> *A collision of East and West. A conspiracy of seduction and murder. A battle between tradition and power. Business is war.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Los Angeles. Midsummer. A dropped cell phone.
A call girl dead in the offices of a powerful Japanese conglomerate, and two LAPD detectives walk into a boardroom of suspects. A security disk holds the key, or so it seems.
Kaufman's adaptation of Crichton feels like a dry run for Mann's *Heat*.

**Mood tags**: paranoid, sexy

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