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Rising Sun is a 1992 internationally best-selling novel by Michael Crichton about a murder in the Los Angeles headquarters of Nakamoto, a fictional Japanese corporation. The book was published by Alfred A. Knopf. It was adapted into a not-so-warmly received film in 1993 which starred Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, and Mako.Although a detective/murder mystery novel at first glance, Rising Sun deals with the controversial subject of Japanese-American relations, and questions the premise that foreign direct investment in the high-technology sectors of the United States is beneficial. Throughout the book, differences between the Japanese and Western mindsets are highlighted, especially in the areas of business strategy and corporate culture.
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Full-Frontal Assault: Not played for laughs. When Graham and Smith rush in to arrest Eddie, one of his two completely nude molls leaps on Smith punching and kicking him; not very effectively, but Eddie escapes because of it.
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Cruel and Unusual Death
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Richmond gets drowned and buried in wet concrete.
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Adaptational Villainy
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Adaptational Villainy: Bob Richmond, who was just a minor character in the novel, is revealed to be the murderer in this movie.
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Tour Guide Detective
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Tour Guide Detective: The murder investigation of the story was used to examine Japanese-US relations in the late 80s, and provide an opportunity for several author tracts about Japan Takes Over the World throughout the story.
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Take That Me: Connor admits he is torn by his experiences; he often looks like the smartest person in the room next to xenophobic cops like Graham, loves Japan and deeply admires its culture, but admits that even his best Japanese friends never really forgive him for not being Japanese.
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Japan Takes Over the World
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Japan Takes Over the World: This is the central theme of the story, and it's hard to miss. Japanese culture is repeatedly portrayed as a threat to America.
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Interrogation Flashback: The story unfolds via the interrogation of Lieutenant Web, concerning his handling of the murder at the Nakamoto Corporation and his involvement with Connor. It is shown through a series of flashbacks from Web's POV.
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Actor Allusion: When confronted by a bodyguard at Sakamura's estate who informs Connor he is a black belt, Connor's response: "But of course, you are, dear", is a direct reference or homage to a famous exchange in Diamonds Are Forever between James Bond and Plenty O'Toole:
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Boring, but Practical
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Boring, but Practical: Connor summarizes the difference between the Japanese and American approaches to business as a game of baseball where every American player tries to hit a home run and sometimes succeeds, while every Japanese player deliberately hits a single and moves his team steadily around the bases.
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Going Native
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Going Native: Connor ended up doing this after spending time in Japan, which helps him and Smith navigate the murder investigation. Theresa (Jingo in the film) was tormented by children in the small, conservative Japanese town she grew up in. Since she arrived in America, she has taken it up as her new homeland and despises the Japanese.
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Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting
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Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting: The film has Connor and Web get into a gratuitous karate fight with some Japanese mooks. This was probably why Wesley Snipes was cast.
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Death by Adaptation
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Death by Adaptation: In the original novel, Richmond is a minor character who survives the events of the plot. Here, he's changed to be the Big Bad and gets karmically drowned in wet concrete at the end of the film.
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Combat Pragmatist
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Combat Pragmatist: When threatened by a hulking bouncer, Connor hits him in the throat before the guy knows it's coming and walks by.
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Conspiracy Thriller
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Conspiracy Thriller: A new variant - the conspiracy technothriller.
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Yellow Peril
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Yellow Peril: The plot is centered on contemporary American fears of Japanese business usurping American dominance.
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Domestic Abuse
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Domestic Abuse: Eddie Sakamura initially comes across as this.
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Adaptation Distillation
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Adaptation Distillation: To make the film more politically correct, writer/director Phillip Kaufman made the main villain an American — Bob Richmond, who was only a minor character in the book. Unlike Ishiguro in the book, he doesn't commit suicide and runs off, only to get drowned in wet concrete by Eddie Sakamura's friends in retaliation.
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The Conspiracy
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The Conspiracy: A call girl is murdered to frame a Senator who opposes the sale of an American high-tech firm to a Japanese corporation, and then the tapes of him "killing" her (he actually only knocks her unconscious and the Big Bad does the real dirty work) are altered to frame yet another character who opposed this Japanese corporation.
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Disney Villain Death
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Disney Villain Death: At the end of the book, Ishiguro throws himself off a 46th-floor balcony after it is exposed that he was the murderer all along.
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Meaningful Name: Jingo, as in "jingoism."
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Driven to Suicide
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Driven to Suicide: Averted for Ishiguro (renamed Ishihara) in the film, in which the Nakamoto Corporation demotes him and permanently puts him in a cubicle back in Japan. Connor explains how this is effectively a Fate Worse than Death for Ishiguro. Played straight for the company's head of security, who the police mistake for Eddie as he was driving his car during the escape.
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But Not Too Foreign
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But Not Too Foreign: In the film, Ishihara recounts how the U.S. government blocked the sale of a major corporation to the Japanese out of concern over "foreign ownership," then turned around and sold that same major corporation to the French.
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Straw Character
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Straw Character: The Japanese are portrayed as racist, misogynistic, ultraconservative, and secretly plotting to take over the world.
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Les Collaborateurs
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Les Collaborateurs: The film treats Bob Richmond, the lone white employee of a Japanese company, as a traitor. He's ultimately revealed to be the killer.
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A Threesome Is Hot
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A Threesome Is Hot: Blatantly done for Fanservice, Graham and Smith rush in to arrest Eddie while he's with two women.
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Cool Car
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Cool Car: Eddie's Vector W8, an American supercar. Sadly, it gets wrecked during a brief chase.
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Big Bad: Different than who it was in the book — Bob Richmond.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: Once Connor, Smith, and Jingo prove Ishiguro's involvement in the murder in front of the Nakamoto conference room, the Nakamoto executives reflexively back away from Ishiguro and a calm Yoshida-san.
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Fate Worse than Death
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Fate Worse than Death: After his involvement in the murder is exposed, Ishihara is disgraced and demoted to a lowly desk job back in Japan, which Connor explains amounts to this. In the book, his character just killed himself to avoid this.
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Enhance Button
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Enhance Button: A realistic example. An audio-video wizard is able to expose a doctored videotape by examining in detail, pointing out the airbrushing and extra shadows. She is unable to magically restore lost information, but she is able to reconstruct the face of a witness who happens to have an un-doctored copy of the tape.
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Abandon the Disabled: Theresa Asakuma was born with a deformed hand, and was shunned by her neighbors and relatives in Japan; she came to America to escape this discrimination.
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Author Filibuster: A staple Crichton trope. In this case, Captain John Connor is more than happy to educate Lieutenant Peter J. Smith on the vast cultural differences between Japan and America, as well as the various underhanded business tactics Japan uses to maintain their technological edge over America. This takes up a portion of the book because the author is trying to get his stance on Japanese-American relations across.
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Twofer Token Minority: Theresa is not only half-black and half-Japanese, but she's also of Burakumin note a caste of Japanese considered sinful and impure due to their work dealing with death and going against Buddhist/Shinto purity, similar to Dalits in Hindu society descent and is physically crippled, missing a hand from a birth defect — both of which are very impure by Japanese standards.
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Failed Future Forecast
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Failed Future Forecast: The major theme of the story is how the unscrupulous Japanese are buying out America and dominating the world economy. But both the book and the movie became immediately dated after the Japanese economy entered a serious decline in the early '90s and entered the "Lost Decade," from which Japan had only just started to rebound from in 2015. Crichton's stern warnings about Japan taking over the world now seem moot, if not downright alarmist.
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Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: A bouncer warns Connor that he's a "black belt." Connor just hits him in the throat and walks by.
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Race Lift: In the book, the main character was Peter Smith, a white male. Here, he's a black man named "Web" Smith, played by Wesley Snipes.
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Red Herring: Three times in the film: Eddie Sakamura had a volatile relationship with Cheryl, but he did not kill her. Senator Morton had sex with Cheryl and indulged her erotic asphyxiation, but he did not kill her either. Neither did Ishihara, who covered for the real killer to protect the company.
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Body Sushi
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Body Sushi: One rather blatant Fanservice scene in the movie has Eddie doing this to one of two girls in a threesome.
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Inscrutable Oriental
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Inscrutable Oriental: Several times, Crichton stresses that the Japanese are completely incompatible, alien, and hostile by Western standards.
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Dirty Cop
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Dirty Cop: Smith split a bribe with Graham from a rich domestic abuser, justifying it as trying to support his pregnant wife. It bites him in the ass during the story, as it turns out to be the reason the Japanese government offered him the high-paying and prestigious Special Services Liaison status despite not speaking a word of Japanese - it meant that he could be blackmailed into silence in cases such as this. Connor insists that Smith's case is not unique - that not only does every other SSL in the LAPD have similar events in their pasts, but that Japanese corporations make a point of gathering dirt on police officers, justifying it by seeing corrupt individuals as indicative of a corrupt nation.
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Mighty Whitey: Connor is a white man who fully understands Japanese culture and can use it against the Japanese. He's essentially portrayed as the best of both worlds.
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