The film "Rising Sun" is as bad as the novel by Michael Crichton is good. The film fails to capture Crichton's opinions on the Japanese, and it changes the murderer to a person who could never have been considered in the book. The makers of this film didn't care about making a good film; they just wanted to be politically correct by not insulting the Japanese. This is the only film that I've seen that I honestly wanted my money back. It is an insult to a great novelist and a fine book.