Rising Sun is a movie directed by Philip Kaufman in 1993 and based on the book of the same name by Michael Crichton, first published in 1992. The movie features Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kevin Anderson, Tia Carrere, and others.
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Storyline
During a commencement gala at the newly opened Los Angeles headquarters of Nakamoto, a Japanese keiretsu, a call girl named Cheryl Lynn Austin, is found dead, apparently after a violent sexual encounter. Smith and Connor suspect Eddie Sakamura, Cheryl’s yakuza boyfriend, of killing her, and interrogate him at a house party.
Movie vs Book
Year
1993
Minutes
125
Movie Rate
6.30
Source: IMDb
Year
1992
Pages
399
Book Rate
7.30
S: Goodreads
Book
Rising Sun
Author: Michael Crichton
Country: USA
First published in: 1992
Length: 399 pages
Genre: Fiction
User polls & recommendations
“I had to unlearn a lot of novelistic stuff to do a screenplay.”
RICHARD PRICE (Writer, Scriptwriter)
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