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Rising Sun is a 1993 film directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Sean Connery (who was also an executive producer), Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Kaufman, Michael Crichton and Michael Backes wrote the screenplay, based on Crichton's novel of the same name.
During a party at the United States offices of a Japanese corporation, a professional escort (Tatjana Patitz) is found dead, apparently after a violent sexual encounter. Police Detective Web Smith (Wesley Snipes) and John Connor (Sean Connery), a former police Captain and expert on Japanese affairs, are sent to investigate.
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 (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), who is the son of a wealthy Japanese businessman (a longtime friend of Connor). After recovering the original unaltered footage, the video shows the prostitute was only unconscious following rough sex with a powerful politician at the party, and a company employee strangled her after the politician left. The head of the company was unaware of the crime and subsequent cover-up, and exiled the perpetrator of the cover-up to a desk job in Japan. The murderer himself runs away when he is identified, but is soon taken care of by Eddie's Yakuza friends, who bury him alive in wet concrete.
Actors: Charles Borromel (actor), Charly Bravo (actor), José Canalejas (actor), Alberto Farnese (actor), Bruno Mattei (director), Luciano Pigozzi (actor), Claudio Fragasso (director), Isabel Mulá (producer), José María Cunillés (producer), José María Cunillés (writer), Luigi Ceccarelli (composer), Franco Prosperi (writer), Cinzia de Ponti (actress), Lola Forner (actress), María Luz Manzano (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Outlaws attack a band of settlers and kill everyone except a pregnant woman who's rescued by a band of Indians. The woman dies giving birth but Chief White Bear adopts her male baby, naming him "Shining Sky," and raising him as brother to his own son, Black Wolf. The boys grow up together and good-naturedly compete for the affections of pretty Rising Star. In a competition, Shining Sky accidentally kills Black Wolf, is forced from the tribe, and finds work in a nearby town where he pretends to be a mute. A townswoman named Isabella flirts with him but when he spurns her she yells "Rape!" Bart Ryder, henchman of the local "Colonel," runs Shining Sky out of town, hangs him by the wrists, and leaves him to die. Crazy Bull rescues Shining Sky and takes him back to the Indian village where he's reunited with Rising Star. Ryder, however, seeks to finish the job of killing the "White Apache."
Keywords: arms-tied-overhead, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, hung-by-wrists, torture, white-raised-as-indianActors: Nino Vingelli (actor), Umberto Raho (actor), Giovanni Cianfriglia (actor), Ugo Adinolfi (actor), Raf Baldassarre (actor), Riccardo Pizzuti (actor), Federico Boido (actor), Bruno Corazzari (actor), Rossano Brazzi (actor), Fedele Gentile (actor), Stelio Candelli (actor), Craig Hill (actor), Giuseppe Castellano (actor), Gordon Mitchell (actor), Rosalba Neri (actress),
Genres: Western,We are the light that guides you home
The light is always darkest before the dawn
This is the rising sun
It hangs from up above
Blinding the children from the darknesses they've come to love
This is the rising sun
Forget the things you loved
Find the reason and the will to rise above
This is who we are
Screaming out
This is the year of the rising sun