so what Crichton doesnt like the Japanese?

Oh, man--a thought of Jun Kazama from Tekken 2 (2P fighting game by Namco, Arcade: August and September 1995, PlayStation: August 1996) just came to mind, too...

Maybe Crichton had a dream of her losing in a demonstration (arcade version), resulting in her screaming in pain and waking up in the middle of the night? That's what happened to me in 1998, 5 years after this movie was released. Anyone wonder if Connery or Snipes ever dreamt of Jun and lived to tell the story?

If he ever dreamed of the she-warrior in his slseep, Crichton might have thought differently about the Japanese. I'm not like him, and every December 7th (anniversaries of the attack on Pearl Harbor), I'm forced to realize why I can't say those things.

Although I cannot see what Jun Kazama has to do with Rising Sun (well, despite the fact she has Japanese nationality and Namco created her in 1995), this movie features violence towards women by people of HER country of origin!

I don't even get why SHE has to come to mind whenever Japanese people are villains in movies. I bet my imagination is running wild as I'm voicing my opinion, dragging her into this. What have the Japanese ever done to Crichton?! That's right, nothing. If you have problems with Crichton's views about the Japanese (I strongly disagree as I'm watching this on Encore), the only solution is to watch something peaceful or funny. It works 9 times out of 10.

(Editor's note: If you have Tekken 2 on the PlayStation and want to know who Jun Kazama is, highlight the woman with a white headband on the character select screen in either Arcade, VS., Time Attack, Survival, or Practice. That's Jun.)


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I agree that the novel contained critiques of both Japan and the US, but I did notice more criticism of Japan's economic policies in the book than the movie.

It seems to me that the film bent over backwards not to offend Japan, in that ....spoilers for the book.....
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... the film's producers/writers crowbar-ed in an obnoxious Euro-Caucasion American consultant who did the actual murder. In the book there was no such character; the killer was that Japanese guy who got sent back to Japan in disgrace in the film.

Also the film featured a very congenial, apparently honest Japanese CEO played by the late great Mako, (who played a CEO of similar disposition in the earlier comedy "Taking Care of Business" J.J. Abrams' first film, which he co-wrote with his college girlfriend, Jill Mazursky. I wonder if the Rising Sun writers were fans of that comedy; there were other similarities - see my post in the "loose ends" thread).