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| starring = | music = Tōru Takemitsu | cinematography = Michael Chapman | editing = | distributor = 20th Century Fox | released = | runtime = 125 minutes | language = | budget = $35 million | gross = $107.2 million〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rising Sun )〕 }} ''Rising Sun'' is a 1993 American crime film written and directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Sean Connery (who was also an executive producer), Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Michael Crichton and Michael Backes wrote the screenplay, based on Crichton's novel of the same name.〔''Variety'' film review; August 2, 1993.〕 ==Plot== During a party at the United States offices of a Japanese corporation in Los Angeles, a professional escort named Cheryl Lynn Austin (Tatjana Patitz) is found dead, apparently after a violent sexual encounter. Police Detectives Web Smith (Wesley Snipes) and John Connor (Sean Connery), a former police Captain and expert on Japanese affairs, are sent to act as liaison between the Japanese executives and the investigating officer, Smith's former partner Tom Graham (Harvey Keitel). During the initial investigation, Smith believes the evidence indicates a sexual encounter and murder; however, Connor insists there is a deeper involvement by the corporation. After a grueling investigation, Connor receives a disc which contains the surveillance footage from the night of the murder. This later turns out to be a digitally altered video of the actual murder. The alteration implicates Eddie Sakamura, who is the son of a wealthy Japanese businessman (a longtime friend of Connor). Eddie appears to get killed fleeing a police car chase when his sports car blows up, but it later transpires he was not driving and is eventually killed after a shoot-out with Japanese gunmen, but not before he gives Connor the original unaltered disc. During this it becomes clear that Lt Graham is actually working with the Japanese faction. After recovering the original unaltered footage, Connor and Smith find the video shows that the prostitute was only unconscious following rough sex with a powerful US senator at the party, and that a company employee strangled her after the senator left. Smith sends stills from the video to the Senator and his entourage, and the Senator commits suicide. The head of the Japanese corporation claims to have been unaware of the crime and subsequent cover-up, and exiles the perpetrator of the cover-up to a desk job in Japan. Company aide Bob Richmond, apparently identified as the murderer and runs away, but is soon taken care of by Eddie's Yakuza friends, who bury him in wet concrete. In the final scene of the film the half-Japanese computer expert Jingo Asakuma casts doubt on whether he was really the murderer, or was taking the fall to protect someone higher up in the organization. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rising Sun (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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