Rising Sun

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	Sean Connery	Capt. John Connor
	Wesley Snipes	Lt. Webster Smith
	Harvey Keitel	Lt. Tom Graham
	Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa	Eddie Sakamura
	Kevin Anderson	Bob Richmond
	Mako	Yoshida-san
	Ray Wise	Senator John Morton
	Stan Egi	Ishihara
	Stan Shaw	Phillips
	Tia Carrere	Jingo Asakuma
	Steve Buscemi	Willy 'the Weasel' Wilhelm
	Tatjana Patitz	Cheryl Lynn Austin
	Peter Crombie	Greg
	Sam Lloyd	Rick
	Alexandra Powers	Julia
	Daniel Von Bargen	Chief Olson
	Lauren Robinson	Zelda 'Zelly' Smith
	Amy Hill	Hsieh
	Tom Dahlgren	Jim Donaldson
	Clyde Kusatsu	Tanaka
	Michael Chapman	Fred Hoffman
	Joey Miyashima	Young Japanese Negotiator
	Nelson Mashita	Young Japanese Negotiator
	Tamara Tunie	Lauren
	Tony Ganios	Perry

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Director	Philip Kaufman
Writer	Michael Crichton, Philip Kaufman, Michael Backes
Producer	Ian Bryce, Sean Connery, Peter Kaufman
Musician	Tôru Takemitsu
Photography	Michael Chapman

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Story Synopsis:
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.


LaserDisc Picture:
This is an exceptional looking LaserDisc which vividly captures Michael Chapman’s darkly toned photography and Dean Tavoularis’ quietly threatening production design. Color fidelity and resolution are at their best as you would expect of a THX Laser Disc title. Fleshtones look natural and black level and shadow detail are exemplary without a trace of video artifacts or visual distortion. The magnificent resolution and detail of the image is a study in perfection. The picture quality attains the very highest performance quality of any disc thus far released and is one of the select few that is setting a new standard of excellence. Properly framed, the aspect ratio is precisely 1.85:1.


LaserDisc Soundtrack:
The soundtrack is well produced with a supportive surround envelopment, which at moments is spatially competent. A much more aggressive spatial surround envelopment would have dramatically better enhanced the suspense. Stereo definition is excellent with noticeably natural dialogue. Toru Takemitsu’s music score is well recorded and presented with a natural surround ambience.

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